Tag: housing

When housing markets price people out of safety, they cram into disasters waiting to happen.

The manmade dream of owning a home wasn’t built on a solid foundation.

An incident of police brutality in Texas highlights the ties between private pools, homeowners’ associations, and racist housing policies.

An investment property is not a home. Neither are cities where most people can’t afford to live.

A decade later, some homeowners still haven’t recovered from the mortgage crisis of 2008.

How job insecurity, student debt, health care, zoning and the housing market have compounded over decades to create a life few millennials can afford.

It’s not the pace of housing construction. It’s that the world’s most successful companies are gathered in a small number of cities.

Short-term rentals are affecting the character of places like Bozeman, Boise, and Crested Butte.

The true story behind the HBO miniseries “Show Me a Hero.”

In January The Washington Post published a powerful three-part series looking at the plight of the black middle class in America. The series focuses on Maryland’s Prince George’s County—the most affluent majority-black county in America, as well as one of the counties hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis. At the heart of the series is a singular, vexing question: “Why don’t […]

Next we looked at street suffixes — the “roads,” “drives” and “boulevards” — and found that, for instance, homes on “Washington Street” are usually different from homes on “Washington Court.” For one thing, a house on Washington Street is probably older. Different street suffixes were popular at different moments. “Streets” and “avenues” were stylish in […]

In The Paris Review Daily, Colin Dickey searches for a house among foreclosed properties, and finds uncanny forces at work.

These are three stories of hellish renting experiences in major American cities.