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What it's like to navigate the first year of motherhood without a stable home

by Lauren Sandler
Apr 28, 2020
Data can tell us who is on welfare, but not what it's like to to live in the system.
A woman feeds a baby at a Thanksgiving meal hosted by the Bay Area Rescue Mission in Richmond, California, in 2015.
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The decade in housing

by Amy Scott
Dec 31, 2019
Out of one crisis and into another.
People look at a home for sale during an open house in April 2019 in San Francisco, California.
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Who benefited from America's housing bust?

by Amy Scott and Maria Hollenhorst
Nov 15, 2019
Millions of Americans lost their homes during the foreclosure crisis. Investigative reporter Aaron Glantz wanted to know who got them.
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Apple pledges $2.5 billion to ease California's housing crisis

by Jack Stewart
Nov 4, 2019
The move follows commitments of $1 billion each from Google's parent company and Facebook.
People look at a San Francisco home for sale in April. The Bay Area market that has become increasingly expensive as tech workers from Silicon Valley push up prices.
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Will rent control help alleviate a housing crisis?

by Ben Bradford
Sep 12, 2019
California lawmakers on Wednesday passed the statewide rent control measure.
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In some cities, foreclosures are still on the rise

by Amy Scott
Apr 12, 2019
In cities like Baltimore and Philadelphia, the number of homes in the early stages of foreclosure is higher than it was before the financial crisis.
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Big tech companies have an affordable housing problem

by Ben Bradford
Jan 17, 2019
Microsoft is the latest tech giant to fund affordable housing projects in the white-hot real estate market where they are based. As part of a community building initiative in Seattle, Microsoft is pledging $475 million in low-interest loans to support housing construction projects over three years, with another $25 million marked for homelessness. There has […]
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Divided Decade: How the financial crisis changed politics

by Tommy Andres
Dec 18, 2018
Did saving the financial system break the political system?
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To combat Spain's affordable housing crisis, Barcelona has started renting out empty apartments owned by banks

by Lucia Benavides
Aug 2, 2018
Spain is in a housing crisis. According to the latest official figures from 2012, around 22,000 people are homeless, though more recent estimates from nonprofits say it could be closer to 40,000. And there’s a surplus of empty homes — hundreds of thousands of apartments owned by banks, repossessed during the country’s financial crisis between […]
Mainly empty apartments are seen in Marina d'Or resort on May 19, 2014 in Oropesa del Mar, Spain.
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How a red-hot housing market made Zillow a media company

by Kai Ryssdal and Phoebe Unterman
Jun 20, 2018
CEO Spencer Rascoff talks surviving the recession to end up in a booming housing market.
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