Rent
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Business
The Next Retirement Communities Won’t Be Just for Seniors
New developments that integrate senior housing into age-diverse apartment buildings offer a more affordable alternative to isolated suburban retirement communities.
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Politics
Wonking Out: Inflation and the Imputation Game
When it comes to economic assessment, feelings are no substitute for hard data. A plurality of Americans say that we’re…
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Politics
The Typical American Household Is Now Rent-Burdened, a Report Says
Moody’s Analytics finds that households in the U.S. now pay 30 percent of the median income for the average rent.
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World
As Thousands Fall Behind on Rent, Public Housing Faces ‘Disaster’
The New York City Housing Authority collected just 65 percent of the rent it charged in the 12 months leading…
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World
The Slow, Inevitable Death of Middle-Class Housing
Built with high ideals and architectural panache, New York’s stock of mid-20th-century apartment buildings is now threatened by greed and…
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Politics
Renting Rather Than Buying? Here’s Where You’ll Save the Most.
Although renting is still cheaper than paying a mortgage in most U.S. metro areas, the gap between the two is…
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World
Blackstone Loses Rent Dispute at Manhattan’s Biggest Apartment Complex
The ruling was the latest development in the turbulent history of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, the setting of many of…
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Politics
Gen Z Problems: Maxwell Frost Is Struggling to Rent an Apartment
Other young adults, who have poor credit history and are frustrated with expensive rental application fees, can relate to the…
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Politics
More of Your Paycheck Is Going to Pay Rent. Which Cities Are Keeping Pace?
Since the start of the pandemic, the average U.S. renter is working six hours more each month to cover housing…
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Politics
A Different Kind of Kitchen-Table Economics
I’m writing this newsletter the way I do most of my writing, at home on a laptop (mounted on a…