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An Arkansas county doesn't want families to move. It's offering them up to $50,000 to buy a new home.
Mississippi County, Arkansas is offering new and existing residents up to $50,000 toward their drea…
Allie Kelly
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Here's how inflation has ratcheted up the cost of basics like housing and food for families across the US
Daily essentials are inflating faster than broad inflation indexes, as the ALICE Essentials Index i…
Juliana Kaplan,Noah Sheidlower
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Irish millennials and Gen Zers are being hit hard by the housing crisis. Many more are moving back in with their parents.
Rents in Ireland jumped 84% between 2010 and 2022, far more than the EU average.
Eliza Relman
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housi…
Allie Kelly,Noah Sheidlower
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New York City briefly opened its housing voucher waitlist. But getting that assistance is as unlikely as getting into Harvard.
When New York City briefly opened its housing voucher waitlist for the first time in 15 years, more…
Eliza Relman
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A Bay Area county gave low-income moms $1,000 a month. 2 years later, more families had stable housing and new jobs.
Marin County, California gave 125 low-income mothers of color $1,000 a month for two years. Familie…
Allie Kelly,Noah Sheidlower
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A shortage of young men in the workforce could weigh on housing, Social Security, and growth for years to come
Around 7.2 million men have dropped out of the workforce. That has a host of consequences that coul…
Jennifer Sor
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Parents with young kids are fleeing New York City in droves. Skyrocketing housing and daycare costs are to blame.
Families with kids under six are leaving New York City at twice the rate of other New Yorkers.
Eliza Relman
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China just unveiled the strongest remedies yet for its troubled housing market
Beijing is removing floors on mortgage rates, offering cheaper housing loans, and reducing minimum …
Theron Mohamed
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I dodged a 15% rent increase because of a new NYC housing protection law. Here's how to know if it could save you money.
When I first learned about my proposed rent increase, I cried. Then I learned about a new law.
Juliana Kaplan
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A homeless Iowa mom of 2 is struggling to find a landlord who will accept her housing voucher before it expires. The state is making it harder by allowing landlords to discriminate against her.
Iowa law allows landlords to reject voucher holders just because they use a voucher. This kind of h…
Eliza Relman
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Low-income Americans wait years to get housing vouchers that are often impossible to use. Fixing the system could mean more funding and less red tape.
Just 60% of voucher recipients nationwide actually use their vouchers to secure housing, which show…
Eliza Relman
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Georgia gave low-income Black women $20,000 over 2 years. A participant said the money helped her afford day care and pay bills.
Shamarra Woods, 31, used her $700 a month in basic income to afford childcare, rent, and groceries …
Allie Kelly
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The Supreme Court just made it easier for governments to remove unhoused people from public spaces
Homelessness in the US hit a record high last year, fueled in large part by the nation's severe sho…
Eliza Relman
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Americans are obsessed with the economy. Here are the tiny bits Trump and Biden said about Social Security and inflation.
During the first presidential debate, Trump and Biden sparred over who is to blame for inflation. B…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Gen Zers and millennials are willing to go on summer vacation at all costs. Literally.
Multiple surveys also found young people are willing to put travel plans ahead of their financial g…
Dan DeFrancesco
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A Gen Xer relocated from Austin to rural Arkansas thanks to a $16,000 mover incentive that helped pay his mortgage. Now he's enjoying the 'good, hometown living.'
Britt Lorino, 55, relocated to Arkansas after living most of his life in Austin. The county's mover…
Allie Kelly
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A self-employed Gen Zer shares why you should have multiple income streams no matter who you work for
Rachel Wells doesn't see herself ever working for an employer again, given the perks of being fully…
Madison Hoff
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A Nobel Prize-winning economist breaks down exactly how Trump's proposed policies could make inflation worse
Inflation has slowed but is above its ideal rate. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz bro…
Madison Hoff
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A Gen Xer struggles to afford housing and groceries, but her income is about $100 too high to get help
Melinda Binkley, 56, has tried to apply for safety net programs before but she's told her household…