Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. Why do housing prices go up? I can’t quantify it, but over the last decade ...

Denver’s Tierra Colectiva is showing how residents can shape — and own — mixed-use projects at a scale once reserved for ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. Broadly, housing policies must concentrate on allowing the production of ...

"Passing the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) in 2025 would send a clear message: city policies must shift power back to tenants and communities, not bolster investors trying to price them ...

Susan Witt has a deep and enduring interest in the land beneath her feet—none of which she owns. For more than four decades, the executive director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics (which ...

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THE GROUP’S NEWEST HOME UP FOR SALE. MATT: THIS THREE BEDROOM HOME HERE IN KANSAS CITY IS UP FOR SALE FOR JUST A LITTLE MORE THAN $100,000. >> THIS HOUSE WAS IN REALLY, REALLY TERRIBLE SHAPE WHEN WE ...

Chicago’s long-running experiment in permanently affordable housing is about to get a serious shakeup at City Hall.

The house at 2025 S. 25 th St. made history Thursday. It became the first house in the Milwaukee Community Land Trust, an effort to increase both the pool of affordable homes in the city, and the ...

Louisiana is a community property state, wherein spouses are considered joint owners of nearly all assets and debts acquired in marriage. In the event of a divorce, assets acquired during the marriage ...

Nothing beats the Cascades alpenglow view from Dana Madison’s front porch in Bend. The pink cast of the mountain range doesn’t get old, even after more than 40 years in central Oregon’s most populous ...