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A San Antonio grandmother used guaranteed basic income to afford groceries and rent a house: 'It's changed my station in life'
Ingrid Sullivan, 48, is enrolled in San Antonio's basic-income pilot. She said it has helped her af…
Allie Kelly
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I left Austin to teach in Vietnam. I feel safer here and have no plans to move back to Texas.
Most foreign teachers in Vietnam are overwhelmed handling 40 kids while covered in sweat and armed …
Kai Xiang Teo
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If you're not making $14.50 an hour, you probably can't afford to live in any US county
A full-time worker without kids would need to make twice the current minimum wage to live in the US…
Jason Lalljee
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You can rent a Cybertruck on Turo — if you can cough up $1,000 a day
At least two Tesla Cybertruck listings have popped up on the rental app Turo, but a test drive won'…
Nora Naughton,Alistair Barr
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Austin gave people $1,000 a month with no strings attached. One participant said the money helped her get by but she's still struggling to get housed.
Jessica Nairns received $1,000 monthly as a participant in the Austin Guaranteed Income Pilot. It h…
Noah Sheidlower
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Austin gave low-income residents $1,000 a month with no strings attached. One participant said the payments helped her get her first permanent apartment.
Stephanie Hendon got a new apartment, a new car, and other daily expenses thanks to monthly payment…
Noah Sheidlower
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Americans' average rent payments have jumped to $2,047. This chart shows how affordability has evolved in the last decade.
Americans pay $2,047 per month on average, with asking prices 3.2% higher than a year ago — b…
Phil Rosen
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Austin went from a 'weird' oasis to one of the most expensive cities in the US. Now it's fighting runaway housing prices.
The city council approved a resolution that would allow townhomes and multi-unit homes to be built …
Eliza Relman
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My wife and I left San Francisco for Austin to start a family. We love it because people talk less about their careers and more about their kids.
Pengyu Cheng and his wife moved to Austin, Texas, from San Francisco to better afford housing. An a…
Alcynna Lloyd
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Goldman Sachs says rent increases should slow down this year
Recent trends in key rent measures suggest shelter inflation peaked in the fourth quarter, Goldman …
Ben Winck
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Wonder why your rent is so high? Because everyone has decided they want to live alone.
Rents in big cities remain shockingly high despite a pandemic exodus. New research suggests one key…
James Rodriguez
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Rents are falling — it could help pull mortgage rates down even lower
Rents aren't surging like they did over the summer, as price cuts are spreading to housing markets …
Alcynna Lloyd
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I rented month-long Airbnb stays in 6 different cities before settling in San Diego. Doing a test run in each city made my decision easy.
Sophie London felt stuck, stagnant, and depressed at the height of COVID — so she left Boston and r…
Robin Madell
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Rents just fell to their lowest level in over a year as ballooning prices from the pandemic start to deflate, Redfin says
"Rents ballooned during the pandemic, and are now returning to earth," according to Redfin real est…
Jennifer Sor
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Rents are tumbling in 27 of the US's biggest cities and still rising in 8
Rent prices fell 0.1% in August, Apartments.com said. The drop is the first in 20 months, yet sever…
Alcynna Lloyd,Ben Winck,Madis…
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A 24-year-old Black tattoo artist explains why she and many others are fleeing Austin: 'The soul of the city has changed'
Black residents are leaving Austin for cities like Atlanta or Houston as the Texas tech hub becomes…
Alcynna Lloyd
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Advocates want to spend $11 billion to fix Austin's crappy public-transit system. But many critics say the price tag is too high for a system hardly anyone will use.
Advocates say trains and buses benefit residents by reducing congestion and even making housing mor…
Alcynna Lloyd
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Landlords aren't just lowering rents they're handing out perks like gift cards and free parking
Desperate for new tenants, landlords aren't just lowering rents — they're handing out perks l…
James Rodriguez
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Elon Musk bashes California for 'overtaxation' after Tesla's move to Austin, but says he misses his friends
California "is becoming more so the land of overregulation, overlitigation, overtaxation, and scorn…
Tim Levin
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Austin, Texas locals have been priced out by wealthy out-of-state tech workers. Now the government is stepping in.
Austin's supply of affordable housing is on the decline — but a new bond may turn the tide for resi…