Millennials are desperate to buy a home — but cash-flush boomers are standing in their way

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Sorry millennials, baby boomers are back on top of the generational housing heap.

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Millennials are desperate to buy a home — but cash-flush boomers are standing in their way

Commercial real estate could be where the next economic shock comes from. Here's what Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and 5 others have predicted.

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The housing market is a total paradox now, and these recent mixed signals are adding to the confusion

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A neighborhood view of Boise, Idaho.

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Sunlight in your bedroom could become a luxury as cities debate allowing landlords to rent windowless rooms in former office buildings to alleviate the housing crisis

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A woman cleans the windows of her apartment in a public housing complex on April 12, 2022 in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City, New York.
A woman cleans the windows of her apartment in a public housing complex on April 12, 2022 in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City, New York.

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Home prices are plummeting everywhere but the US. Blame America's favorite mortgage.

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It took a progressive Virginia suburb 8 years to let developers build apartments instead of single-family houses. It shows how hard it is to build middle-class housing in the US.

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A demonstrator holds up a sign that says "Won't you be my neighbor?", a quote from the children's show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, during the Arlington County board meeting in Arlington, Virginia, on July 16, 2022.

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The 10 US cities where it's hardest to build affordable housing

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Neat line of suburban houses in Fairfax, Virginia.

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Home prices fell annually for the first time since 2012, but the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is bringing more buyers to the housing market

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Remote work could help the US make more babies, have affordable housing, and tackle the mental health and climate crises, a Stanford economist says

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One of the youngest people in the world to 3D print a house became a CTO at 22. Here's how she did it.

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Kristen Henry operates a 3D printer building a house.

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