Can New York Fix Its Housing Crisis?
The New York City Council passed a number of measures meant to ease the city's housing crisis. Will they work?
Housing Crisis
How to See Disaster Coming
Researchers analyze mathematics of rapid change in complex systems and find room for improvement—and hints at mitigation.
Housing Crisis Hits Poor Renters Hard
As the middle class sidles out of the houses it can no longer pay for, the migration is making it harder for the poorest renters to find a place.
How Foreclosures Feasted on Some Cities, Not Others
A look at foreclosures in two Southern California cities shows why some fared better than others in the housing crisis.
Leaky Homes Show Green Intentions Gone Wrong
In another kind of housing crisis, New Zealand homes built with chemical-free wood are leaky, while their owners are up a creek.
The Man Who Saw the Mortgage Crisis Coming
The Ohio official who sounded an early and frequent alarm about securitized home loans now has a plan for all those abandoned properties those loans helped create.
#OWS: Have We Entered the Age of Protest?
Popular movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party suggest that mass demonstrations have moved from the last resort of the powerless to the first resort of the newly empowered.
Learning to Play the HARP
The Obama administration has a mortgage refinancing program that needs some tuning.
Squat to Own
Two social ills come together in Miami for a positive outcome, at least on a small scale.
The New College Try
Gritty Hammond, Ind., and 80 other cities in decline have a novel approach to economic development: They're attracting new residents by offering to pay for their children to attend college. But is a promise to pay tuition a growth strategy — or welfare for the middle class?