Architects are cutting big holes in the middle of skyscrapers and adding more floors to turn empty NYC offices into apartments

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Mayor Eric Adams and Richard Coles, Founder and Managing Partner at the Vanbarton Group, are pictured as they tour a new apartment at building located at 160 Water Street in downtown Manhattan in March 2023.
Mayor Eric Adams, right, and Richard Coles, the founder and a managing partner at the Vanbarton Group, tour a new apartment at building located at 160 Water Street in downtown Manhattan in March.

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US homebuyers are waiting for the Fed to start cutting interest rates. Here's when 10 experts say it's going to happen.

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The lack of homeowners selling their homes has contributed to a shortage of housing inventory.

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Housing economists have a great idea that could fix just about everything

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Snow covers downtown rooftops and open spaces in Flensburg, Germany.
Land value taxes would incentivize development on valuable urban land, discouraging surface parking lots and other forms of land use that generate relatively little value.

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Canada's unprecedented housing crisis could be a warning sign for the US

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Construction of new homes and town homes in Markham Ontario in June 2022.
Construction of new homes and town homes in Markham Ontario in June 2022.

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San Francisco is moving forward with its tallest-ever apartment building as California's new laws to fight the housing crisis start to pay off

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The Bay Bridge and the San Francisco skyline including the Salesforce Tower are seen in this view from the bay on Monday, March 9, 2020.
The Bay Bridge and the San Francisco skyline including the Salesforce Tower are seen in this view from the bay on Monday, March 9, 2020.

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Make America Build Again

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A red iron beam filling in the American flag

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Anne-Marie Griger's job is to build big things — fields of solar panels that can power a city, forests of wind turbines as tall as sequoias. But to do it, she has to start small. 

Developers who want to build apartments near public transit stations are in luck as the Biden administration opens up billions in new loans

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The Wyandanch Village apartment complex adjacent to the Wyandanch, New York, Long Island Rail Road station is show in this aerial photograph on September 12, 2023. It is one example of transit orientated development on Long Island.
An apartment complex adjacent to the Long Island Rail Road station in Wyandanch, New York is one example of transit-oriented development.

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The 17 cheapest cities to live in the US

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City view of Augusta, Georgia.
Augusta, Georgia.

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Tenants and a top prosecutor have accused major landlords and a popular apartment-pricing site of colluding to inflate rents. A legal expert says it shows algorithmic collusion is no longer 'science fiction.'

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A sign is posted in front of an apartment building with available rentals on June 09, 2023 in San Francisco, California.
Rent-settling algorithms used by landlords nationwide may be artificially increasing rents above market rates.

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See inside a tiny-home village that gives homeless people $200-a-month houses — and has a waiting list of 700 people

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The 12Neighbours tiny home village located in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
The 12Neighbours tiny-home village in New Brunswick, Canada — across the border from Maine,

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