American dream of owning a home is dead, majority of renters say
Exclusive: most renters surveyed by Harris Poll say the areas they live in have become so unaffordable they are ‘barely livable’
June 2023
Buying a home in the US is expensive – and that isn’t changing anytime soon
Even if there are fewer home buyers and prices have been falling slightly, they’re still much higher than pre-pandemic and for many, more unaffordable than ever
December 2022
First Gen Z congressman says he was rejected from Washington DC housing
Florida Democrat Maxwell Frost says he incurred debt from his campaign and was recently denied an apartment for poor credit
July 2017
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail review – compelling real-life legal drama
Steve James’s documentary about how one small family-owned bank fought to keep its reputation tells a very human story
February 2017
Foster on Friday
Trump's housing policies will hit the poor - and middle America, too
Everything rests on the final fine from the US justice department – if it is big, Germany’s biggest bank will be pushed into a very big corner
The $14bn Deutsche Bank fine – all you need to know
Why is Germany’s biggest bank in $14bn worth of trouble and can it afford the huge US fine? Find out here …
European banking shares dive amid threat of $14bn Deutsche Bank fine
German lender vows to fight penalty sum threatened by US Department of Justice as investors pile out of banking sector
July 2016
'Donald Trump was part of the problem': Cleveland's subprime lesson for Republicans
Trump's predatory housing advice still plagues Cleveland, say activists – video
June 2016
US housing crisis is a stark warning for the UK after the Housing Act
Glyn Robbins
The US has a housing crisis on a scale so far unimaginable here, but new rules to restrict access to social housing put the UK on the same path
April 2016
Book of the day
Evicted by Matthew Desmond review – what if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?
‘There is an enormous amount of pain and poverty in this rich land,’ argues American sociologist Desmond in this brilliant book about housing and the lives of eight families in Milwaukee
March 2016
One day, nine cruel evictions. How supersized inequality looks in the US
Aditya Chakrabortty
No pity or sentiment in crisis–hit Milwaukee, where I saw a succession of poor, black families turfed on to the city’s freezing streets
June 2015
Black Americans unfairly targeted by banks before housing crisis, says ACLU
American Civil Liberties Union says black families in study had been subjected to ‘redlining’ – denying or charging more for necessary services – before 2008 crash
February 2015
Nils Pratley on finance
HSBC: is it time to allow an outsider to chair the bank?
Given its huge expansion drive, the bank may have benefited from an independent, non-executive chairman to ask the awkward questions
November 2014
Westbrook Partners: the global landlords 'using property like an ATM'
For America’s poor, it’s clear a two-party system is no longer enough
Farai Chideya
October 2014
Do Democrats want to fix inequality? Or just complain about it?
Alexis Goldstein
Alexis Goldstein: If progressives think they’ve got any chance at midterm victory, it’s time to focus on dramatic solutions for young and minority voters – before it’s too late
September 2014
The Wire creator David Simon: why American politics no longer works
The writer’s next show, Show Me a Hero, is the true story of a battle over public housing that convulsed New York in the 80s. John Mulholland meets him on location in Manhattan
About 630 results for US housing and sub-prime crisis
Book of the dayEvicted by Matthew Desmond review – what if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?‘There is an enormous amount of pain and poverty in this rich land,’ argues American sociologist Desmond in this brilliant book about housing and the lives of eight families in Milwaukee
