Two Men Shot Friday Night in Atlantic City Housing Complex
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – Two men were shot Friday night at the Brigantine Homes housing complex on Atlantic City’s west side, according to police. At …
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U.S. construction spending dives in June on single-family housing weakness
WASHINGTON – U.S. construction spending tumbled in June as outlays on single-family homebuilding declined sharply amid rising mortgage rates. The Commerce Department said on Monday …
U.S. Treasury to allow COVID funds for state, local affordable housing loans
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Treasury said on Wednesday that it will allow state, local and tribal governments more flexibility to use COVID-19 rescue funds to …
‘You’d Be Angry Too’: LA Squanders Millions Of Dollars In Housing Vouchers As Homeless Death Rate Soars
‘You’d Be Angry Too’: LA Squanders Millions Of Dollars In Housing Vouchers As Homeless Death Rate Soars John Hugh DeMastri on July 25, 2022 The …
Four Charged in Big Island Affordable Housing Corruption Scheme
HONOLULU – A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment against Paul Joseph Sulla, Jr., 76, and Gary Charles Zamber, 53, both attorneys residing on …
Four Charged in Big Island Affordable Housing Corruption Scheme
HONOLULU – A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment against Paul Joseph Sulla, Jr., 76, and Gary Charles Zamber, 53, both attorneys residing on …
Brother of Baltimore Business Owner Admits to Falsely Claiming His Brother’s Bank Balance and Activity as His Own in Order to Obtain a Federal Housing Administration Loan
Baltimore, Maryland – Calvin Abramowitz, age 48, of Lakewood, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today to bank fraud. As part of his guilty plea, Abramowitz has …
Canada’s June housing starts fall 3% from May
OTTAWA – Canadian housing starts in June fell 3% from the previous month on a decline in both multi-unit urban and single-detached starts, data from …
U.S. housing hold-ups put thousands of jobs on the line
By Niket Nishant and Abhijith Ganapavaram (Reuters) – U.S. mortgage lenders, refinancing companies and real-estate brokers may lay off thousands of employees in the coming …
Factbox-Canadian lawmakers approve 2022 budget measures on housing, Russian assets
(Reuters) – Canada’s Senate on Thursday passed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s budget, adopting a two-year ban on foreign buyers of Canadian homes and a measure …
Canada’s Senate passes budget, greenlighting measures on housing, Russian assets
OTTAWA – Canada’s Senate on Thursday passed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s budget, adopting a long list of measures including a two-year ban on foreign home …
Border Shelter Housing Muslim Migrants Opens Its Doors In Mexico
Border Shelter Housing Muslim Migrants Opens Its Doors In Mexico Jennie Taer on June 21, 2022 A border shelter for Muslim migrants hoping to gain …
U.S. Attorney’s Office hosts roundtable to combat sexual harassment in housing
CINCINNATI – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division hosted a roundtable today for …
United States Attorney Resolves Groundbreaking Suit Against Meta Platforms, Inc., Formerly Known As Facebook, To Address Discriminatory Advertising For Housing
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, along with Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil …
Three Defendants who Participated in Kickback and Bribery Schemes Involving Federal Housing Grant Programs Sentenced in Federal Court
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA — Charles “Chuck” Willys Mincey, Jr., 65, of Flora, Mississippi, Karl Henry Zerbst, Jr., 62, of Mount Pleasant,, and Brian Daniel Herndon, 46, …
U.S. housing starts drop to 13-month low in May; building permits fall
WASHINGTON – U.S. homebuilding fell to a 13-month low in May and permits tumbled, suggesting the housing market was cooling as surging mortgage rates reduce …
Real estate brokers Compass, Redfin to cut jobs as housing market cools
(Reuters) – Real estate brokers Compass Inc and Redfin Corp said on Tuesday they will cut jobs as rising mortgage rates and the prospect of …
Israel to boost building starts in bid to rein in soaring housing costs
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM – Israel’s government plans to sharply boost construction starts and expand a discount scheme aimed at restraining rapidly rising housing prices …
‘Difficult Times’: Maine City Raises Property Taxes To Pay For Migrant Housing
‘Difficult Times’: Maine City Raises Property Taxes To Pay For Migrant Housing Jennie Taer on June 8, 2022 The city of Portland, Maine, raised property …
Australian banks slide further as RBA view raises housing market concerns
By Harish Sridharan (Reuters) – Shares of Australia’s “Big Four” banks fell further on Thursday to hit multi-month lows, as the central bank’s largest interest …
Black Buffalo 3D’s NEXCON 3D Construction Printer Featured at U.S. Department of HUD Innovative Housing Showcase in Washington D.C.
EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. and KEARNY POINT, N.J. and NEW YORK, June 7, 2022 — Black Buffalo 3D (BB3D) will exhibit 3D-printed housing walls and its modular …
Mexico needs to build 800,000 housing units/yr to keep up with demand – study
By Kylie Madry MEXICO CITY – Mexico needs to invest nearly 4% of its gross domestic product annually to build 800,000 housing units a year …
Canada housing boom to halt next year on higher mortgage rates – Reuters poll
By Shrutee Sarkar BENGALURU – Canadian house price inflation will slow to 10% this year as the Bank of Canada raises interest rates aggressively, a …
Australia’s housing boom to deflate as mortgage rates rise: Reuters poll
By Vivek Mishra BENGALURU – Rampant rises in Australian house prices will grind almost to a halt this year, and an 8% decline is expected …
Suburbs vs downtown: Toronto’s mixed housing market may signal coming trend
By Julie Gordon and Nichola Saminather TORONTO – Toronto home prices are falling, but not everywhere. The median home price in the greater Toronto area …
Suspect from Neptune Charged in February Washington Village Housing Complex Shooting
ASBURY PARK, NJ – On Tuesday, police arrested 29-year-old Stephon Keys and charged him for attempted murder in connection with a shooting that took place …
New York Housing Authority Employee Sentenced to 12 Years for Shooting Boss
NEW YORK, NY – A former New York City Housing Authority employee was sentenced to 12 years in prison for shooting a building superintendent multiple …
Chinese city offers Nobel Prize winners $1.5 million housing subsidies
BEIJING – The industrialised Chinese coastal city of Wuxi is offering Nobel Prize winners up to 10 million yuan ($1.48 million) in housing subsidies to …
Police Investigating as Woman Shot in Hays Manor Housing Project
McKees Rocks, PA- Police in McKees Rocks responded to a call in the Hays Manor Housing Project after a woman was shot on Saturday at …
Berlin authorities looking into device disabled at residence housing Russian media
FRANKFURT -Berlin criminal investigators and prosecutors were on Saturday studying a device found and destroyed at a residential building housing Russian news agency staff in …
The Fed wants to cool the U.S. housing market. Here’s what that feels like
By Ann Saphir and Lindsay Dunsmuir (Reuters) – In mid-April, months into an increasingly frustrating house hunt, Harsh Grewal and his wife settled on a …
Mexico opposition party pitches free solar panels for housing
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s biggest opposition party on Sunday proposed installing solar panels for free onto residential housing, staking out its renewable energy credentials as …
Analysis-From boom to glut: Canada’s housing plan could backfire on Trudeau
By Julie Gordon OTTAWA – The Canadian government’s plan to ease runaway housing prices by rapidly ramping up the pace of home construction risks pushing …
Wisconsin Man Charged with Seeking to Intimidate and Interfere with Housing Rights Following Racially-Motivated Incidents
A federal criminal complaint was issued charging William A. McDonald, 54, of West Allis, Wisconsin, with using force and threatening to use force to injure, …
Handgun, Drugs Seized During Arrest at Roodner Court Housing Complex
NORWALK, CT – The Norwalk Police Department announced an arrest and seizure of a gun and drugs during a call at the Roodner Court Housing …
Ukrainian refugee crisis seen pressuring Europe’s housing market
By Zuzanna Szymanska BERLIN – Ukrainian refugees fleeing war have been hospitably received around Europe, but the longer they stay the more their presence may …
Justice Department Files Statement of Interest in Fair Housing Act Case Alleging Unlawful Exclusion of Tenants Who Do Not Speak English
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – The Justice Department filed a Statement of Interest today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York …
Newark Housing Authority Director of Technology Embezzled $594,000
NEWARK, NJ – The former Information Technology Director at the Newark Housing Authority has admitted to embezzling $594,425 from the agency by selling the authority’s …
Australia housing bubble slowly deflating as heat leaves Sydney, Melbourne
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY – Australian home prices are slowly coming back to earth as the sky-high markets of Sydney and Melbourne lose some heat, …
Greystar and University of Pennsylvania Close on 588-Bed Student Housing Redevelopment Project on Penn Campus
“The University enthusiastically joins in this partnership with Greystar, as specialists in rental housing for the collegiate marketplace, to kick off the construction and repositioning …
Former Worcester Housing Official Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison for $2.3 Million Property Development Fraud Scheme
BOSTON – A former employee of the City of Worcester’s Housing Development Office and Executive Office of Economic Development was sentenced today in federal court …
Canada’s red-hot housing markets hint at cooldown as higher rates, inflation bite
By Nichola Saminather and Julie Gordon TORONTO – Toronto realtor Nasma Ali has noted a marked slowdown in housing demand in the red-hot Greater Toronto …
EU to set out job, school, housing plan for Ukraine refugees
BRUSSELS – The European Commission on Wednesday will set out plans to ensure people fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have access to jobs, education and …
U.S. housing starts rebound sharply in Feb; building permits fall
WASHINGTON – U.S. homebuilding rebounded sharply in February as the drag from cold weather eased, and while permits fell, they remained at higher levels, suggesting …
Canada housing starts rise 8% in February
OTTAWA – Canadian housing starts rose 8% in February compared with the previous month on gains in both multiple urban starts and single detached urban …
Woman Previously Convicted in Fraud Scheme Admits to Defrauding the Federal Housing Administration, Business and Unemployment COVID Relief Programs
PROVIDENCE – A North Providence woman today admitted in federal court that she provided false information to a mortgage lender when applying for a Federal …
In unaffordable Seoul, housing is at the centre of the S.Korea election
By Cynthia Kim and Joori Roh SEOUL – Lee Jae-hong would have had no trouble buying a home in the suburb of Ilsan on the …
China urges banks, insurers to support affordable rental housing
BEIJING – China’s banking and insurance regulator has issued guidelines urging banks and insurers to support the development of affordable rental housing, as Beijing vows …
Rightmove forecasts strong housing market after 2021 profit surge
– British real-estate portal Rightmove said on Friday it expects transaction levels to return to pre-pandemic levels this year, dispelling concerns about a slowdown driven …
Mortgage Applications Plummet As Housing Prices Surged To Record High
Mortgage Applications Plummet As Housing Prices Surged To Record High Harry Wilmerding on February 23, 2022 Mortgage applications plummeted to their lowest level in three …