Take a look inside the biggest-ever office building to be transformed into homes in New York City

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A rendering of one of the apartments in 160 Water Street.
A rendering of one of the apartments in 160 Water Street.

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Meet America's newest mega-landlords: Google, Facebook, and Elon Musk

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For rent signs featuring logos for Google, Meta, and Tesla pop up in front of a row of gray two-story houses.
After years of running up against housing shortages, companies like Google, Meta, and Disney are taking matters into their own hands.

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Vince Toye wants to transform the American housing landscape, one affordable unit at a time

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Vince Toye leads the community-development banking and agency lending businesses for JPMorgan Chase.

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The vast majority of Americans support housing policies that are widely illegal

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People walk past brownstone townhouses in the Fort Greene neighborhood on June 24, 2016 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
People walk past brownstone townhouses in the Fort Greene neighborhood on June 24, 2016 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

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Today's parents have to pay $3.4 million to fund the American Dream for themselves and their kids

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Housing keeps getting less affordable – and the math only improved in one major city this year, says Redfin

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Redfin expects mortgage rates to dip next year.

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A Gen Xer making $344,000 secretly working 3 jobs got laid off from 2 of them. He said that's exactly why he was overemployed.

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A 48-year-old said secretly working three remote jobs provided him valuable job security (Worker in story not pictured).

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Shoppers are worried about the economy so they're 'doom spending' to make themselves feel better

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Consumers worried about the economy are turning to "doom spending" to cope, according to a report from Intuit Credit Karma.

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Japan has a glut of 8.5 million akiya, empty 'ghost houses' left to rot. Now Airbnb wants to fill them with tourists.

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Old Japanese house and garden in Genemongama factory, Kyushu region, Arita, Japan on August 23, 2023 in Arita, Japan.
Old Japanese house and garden in Genemongama factory, Kyushu region, Arita, Japan on August 23, 2023 in Arita, Japan.

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How much the typical first-time home buyer puts toward a down payment and where they get the money

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The typical first-time homebuyer's down payment is less than 10% in the US.

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