Housing

Home builders are making new homes smaller to keep prices down. In Southern California, where land is scarce and housing is expensive, buyers are turning to small pre-war homes or ADUs.

"I'm just attached to it because it's taken care of me and I'm taking care of it," said Violet O'Brien on why she's choosing to age in place in her Houston home.

Rent growth is slower in some places, but much faster in others. We're looking at you, New York City.

Paula Span of The New York Times says that these days, aging in place might feel more like being stuck in place .

"The Sims had really kind of seeded that desire for homeownership in me at a young age," said Elle Hunt, a journalist based in the U.K. "And I'd spent the interim 20 years walking away from that dream a bit."

The justices will debate if enforcing a public camping ban in Grants Pass, Oregon, violated the Eighth Amendment.

Housing shortage-plagued California recently started allowing property owners to split their lots and have developers build new homes there.

Higher interest rates and insurance costs make building low-income and supportive housing more costly —  especially in California, home to 28% of the U.S. homeless population.

Chris Rutherford, executive director of Salvage Warehouse of Detroit, shares how the deconstruction business is a huge benefit for communities economically, environmentally and socially.

Lawsuits allege that RealPage, a company many large landlords use to price their apartments, uses confidential data in an anti-competitive way.