Housing

There Are Two Housing Markets in America

Irwin M. Stelzer · May 10, 2014 3:00 am

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen speaks during a Financial Stability Oversight Council meeting May 7 at the Treasury Department in Washington. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Janet Yellen warns student debt may be holding back housing recovery

Joseph Lawler · May 8, 2014 4:00 am

Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen testified before a Senate Joint Economic Committee hearing entitled "The Economic outlook", Wednesday. Yellen said the economy was on track for solid growth. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Janet Yellen’s worries: Housing and emerging markets

Joseph Lawler · May 7, 2014 4:00 am

This week could be an important one in determining the fate of the bailed-out government mortgage businesses Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (AP Photo)

Congress should reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, not kill them

Harry Alford · May 6, 2014 4:00 am

Pershing Square Capital Management CEO William Ackman speaks at the New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on October 1, 2010, in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for Rubenstein Communications)

Major Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac investor sketches out plan for keeping companies alive

Joseph Lawler · May 6, 2014 4:00 am

Occupy Wall Street activists march during a tour of foreclosed homes in the East New York neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has an ambitious plan to build or preserve 200,000 affordable units of housing over the next 10 years for lower-income New Yorkers, a staggering number that would house a population bigger than cities such as Atlanta or Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

With big goal, NYC affordable homes plan due

Jennifer Peltz · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

Rep. Jeb Hensarling listens during a news conference on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

A tricky balancing act for influential Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling

Joseph Lawler · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman nominee Stanley Fischer is sworn in on Capitol Hill on March 13 prior to testifying before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on his nomination. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Senate Banking Committee clears three Federal Reserve candidates, delays Fannie-Freddie vote

Joseph Lawler · April 29, 2014 4:00 am

Massachusetts homes sales down in March

Massachusetts homes sales down in March

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 3:54 pm

In this photo made on Friday, March 28, 2014, construction continues on a housing plan in Zelienople, Pa. The Commerce Department releases new home sales for March on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Sales of new US homes plunge 14.5 percent in March

Josh Boak · April 23, 2014 2:34 pm

Baton Rouge home sales drop in March

Baton Rouge home sales drop in March

Washington Examiner · April 21, 2014 4:24 pm

The Golden Gate Bridge towers over the fog-covered city at sunrise in San Francisco. (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

The high cost of liberalism shows up in San Francisco housing costs

Thomas Sowell · April 21, 2014 4:00 am