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What Is Your Housing Situation? We Want to Hear From You.

A Times housing reporter wants to learn more about the pressures of rising housing costs and how they have affected your community and family.

What Is Your Housing Situation? We Want to Hear From You.

A Times housing reporter wants to learn more about the pressures of rising housing costs and how they have affected your community and family.

The Great Compression

Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us.

The Farmers Had What the Billionaires Wanted

In Solano County, Calif., a who’s who of tech money is trying to build a city from the ground up. But some of the locals…

The ‘Georgists’ Are Out There, and They Want to Tax Your Land

Amid a crisis in affordable housing, the century-old ideas of Henry George have gained a new currency.

A Higher Monthly Payment, but Less Square Footage

Homebuilders are responding to rising interest rates with an innovation: a small house in the traditionally spacious exurbs.

A D.C. Suburb Finds a Creative Answer to America’s Housing Shortage

Montgomery County, Md., like many places, has an affordable housing crisis. So it started acting like a benevolent real estate investor.

Who Will Stand Up for Renters? Their Elected Representatives, Who Also Rent.

In California, legislators come out as tenants to form a renters’ caucus.

Mortgage Transfers Pick Up as a Way to Beat Rising Rates

Real estate agents are pushing sub-3 percent mortgages as an amenity, just like marble countertops or a view of the mountains.

Can the ‘California Effect’ Survive in a Hyperpartisan America?

For decades the state has been setting policy for the whole nation. Now red states are pushing back.