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Cash for your backyard? Companies, homeowners try to capitalize on a California law.

by Erin Baldassari
Apr 22, 2024
Housing shortage-plagued California recently started allowing property owners to split their lots and have developers build new homes there.
Courtesy Peter Taormina
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National Debt

Criticism, crashes, and crises: Revisiting three ghosts of debt ceiling battles past

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Dec 5, 2023
There have been about 80 debt ceiling battles since 1960. But those decades of drama have never led to an actual default.
The National Debt Clock shows the increasing U.S. debt, near an IRS office in New York City. When this photo was taken, on July 26, 2011, Congress was one week away from a debt ceiling deadline.
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Finding Your Place

The economics of homelessness

by David Brancaccio , Erika Soderstrom and Hannah Baggenstoss
Jun 2, 2023
In this Marketplace special, we’re taking a look at how the debt ceiling drama further restricts us from addressing big issues like homelessness.
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With housing in short supply, some resort towns pay landlords to rent to locals

by Rachel Cohen
Jun 1, 2023
Resort communities that saw growth during the pandemic are trying to stop the bleed of local workers being priced out.
Amber Kennedy’s roommate in the house they rent through Lease to Locals, a program that encourages property owners to rent to local workers.
Rachel Cohen
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Finding Your Place

How the affordable housing crisis drives homelessness

by David Brancaccio and Erika Soderstrom
May 30, 2023
We're going to need a lot of money and cooperation to address homelessness.
Housing expert Gregg Colburn explains how we can best address homelessness on local, state and federal levels.
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Housing costs are a main reason inflation is still high

by Samantha Fields
Mar 14, 2023
The cost of shelter is driving more than 70% of inflation right now, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So what gives?
It can take a year or more for changes in housing costs to show up in inflation data.
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Converting office space to apartment buildings is hard. States like California are trying to change that.

by Janet Nguyen
Mar 13, 2023
High office vacancy rates can be an opportunity to create more housing amid a shortage in the state.
A view of downtown Los Angeles. States such as California have launched initiatives to try and increase commercial-to-residential conversions.
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What are the fastest ways to address the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles?

by Ethan Ward
May 25, 2022
When service providers lease buildings, it can speed up the availability of housing that comes with social services.
Pallets used as tent platforms at a “safe camping” site.
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Floridians struggle to find good housing amid affordability crisis, pandemic

by Danielle Prieur
Nov 26, 2020
In Osceola County, many people are living in motels that offer limited facilities for long-term stays during a pandemic.
A woman looks on as the head of the Kissimmee-Poinciana Homeless Outreach, Barbie Austria, donates essentials to jobless people living in a motel in Kissimmee, Florida on Oct. 15, 2020.
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Life on the bottom rung of the rental market during a housing crisis

by Aaron Mendelson
May 21, 2020
One group of California tenants say they feel stuck in dirty, dangerous accommodations.
A courtyard at the River Glen Apartments in San Bernardino, California.
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