State laws vary, so where you live may determine whether you’ll get to keep your home.
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Energy is meant to improve people’s lives. Often cost prevents residents from making the most of that opportunity, so they cut back on energy use to be able to pay the bills.
Climate change, biodiversity loss and water conservation are often framed as problems in need of national policies. However, there is an often more important level of governance: the neighborhood.
Research over a generation found almost half of young people moved repeatedly between renting, home ownership and even back to the family home.
The legislation is the first major housing bill to pass in decades.
Deed fraud is a persistent problem in the Detroit area. Only a fraction of victims get justice.
Florida’s current approach to insurance is forcing those who can least afford it to bear the cost of the climate crisis. But different approaches are available.
If signed into law, the legislation would be the first major housing bill to pass in decades.
Property tax reform in Detroit could boost homeownership and attract new residents and businesses.
Detroit seniors pay more in homeowner’s insurance, utilities and property tax, and those on fixed incomes can struggle to make ends meet.
In general, people are moving to safer homes after disasters, but the vast majority are selling, meaning someone else is now taking on that risk. Buyout programs can help.
Rising housing costs are driving young adults back home – and reshaping careers, relationships and the economy.
Most sellers already pay no tax, so the proposal’s benefits would flow to the richest.
Promoting home ownership is often at the centre of housing policy in many countries, including Canada. Yet rising costs are placing the dream of home ownership out of reach for many.
Wealth inequality in Australia has grown over the past quarter century. Surging house prices that have outpaced incomes are to blame.
Housing market appreciation has been the primary driver of growing white-Black wealth disparities since the mid-1980s.
Hint: cutting out avocado toast won’t help much. Research shows your chances of owning a home hinge on your income relative to house prices, and whether you can access the ‘bank of mum and dad’.
Home ownership is often cast as the default goal for every Australian. But that stigmatises renters, who make up nearly a third of all Australian households.
Between 2002 and 2018, some groups actually increased their wealth on certain measures. For young people and middle Australians, however, it’s a more sobering picture.
This unofficial and invisible safety net is widespread and operates at all income levels. But no one knows the actual scale of this web of informal transactions.
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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