By Frank Nothaft
Low mortgage rates, job growth, and an improving consumer optimism have all supported the recovery in home sales during the last few years. Both sales of newly built as well as previously owned homes are up, with the growth stronger for new homes. Since the trough in new-home sales in 2011, sales had jumped more than 50 percent by 2016
While San Francisco is often portrayed as the epicenter of housing unaffordability on the West Coast, the issue is truly pervasive to California as a whole. A draft report from
Our state’s housing crisis increases homelessness, costs people jobs and lengthens commutes, all serious problems. On the most basic level, though, what the shortage of affordable housing does is deny
According to data compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the 10-year term premium moved above zero for the first time in 10 months on the 14th of
