Housing

Expiring state eviction bans have led to hundreds of thousands of additional coronavirus cases, new research finds.

Living with extended family can provide emotional and financial support. It’s also been a challenge during the coronavirus pandemic.

As many as 35 million Americans face eviction due to an inability to make housing payments. Here’s a step-by-step plan to keep yourself in your home, for good.

Homeowners now have unprecedented potential to save on their monthly payments through a mortgage refinance.

Mortgage interest rates have set record lows more than a dozen times this year, and last week there was yet another. That caused mortgage applications to rise.

A report by the Urban Institute estimates 3.4 millennials would be homeowners had the rate of homeownership kept up with previous generations. 

Covid-induced demand from homebuyers over the summer caused an exceptionally strong spike in home prices

Before committing to buy a home, there are certain key things to make sure you’ve done. Here are six of them, according to real estate experts.

Unemployment benefits will terminate for millions of workers at the end of the year, just as rent and student loan protections lapse, absent federal extensions.

Sales of existing homes in October soared well past expectations, rising 4.3% compared with September and 26.6% annually.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has perpetuated racial segregation in Connecticut’s capital by failing to help poor Black and Hispanic families living in dilapidated, federally subsidized housing move to better neighborhoods in the city and suburbs, residents allege in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The complaint was filed in federal court by 10 former residents of three...

Residents of the Barbour Gardens apartment complex in Hartford were forced out of the buildings Wednesday night because of a sewage backup.

November is not historically a strong season for homebuying, but this one, like the rest of 2020, isn’t following any rules.

In November, builder confidence in the construction market for single-family homes soared to its third record high in as many months.

Miller Tabak’s Matt Maley says housing stocks look sound fundamentally but he warns of weaknesses starting to form.

There were 2,000 people in homeless shelters at the beginning of the pandemic, but COVID-19 forced shelters to reduce capacity and use hotel rooms to socially distance. But advocates are looking for more permanent solutions.   “At this current point in time, I literally live under the bridge going from Hartford to East Hartford,” Amber Otero said. NBC Connecticut met...

Housing advocates say the issue of how to keep people safe from COVID-19 and from the elements is a dilemma they’re attempting to tackle as winter approaches.

Rent prices continued to plunge across the U.S. this past month, with San Francisco leading the decline, according to data from Zumper, a real-estate startup.  The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco dropped more than 20% from a year ago, to $2,830, according to the report. That’s the largest decline the company has recorded. Month-to-month, the price...

A civil rights organization wants the Town of Woodbridge to be a blueprint for change across Connecticut. The group Open Communities Alliance is asking the town to amend its zoning policies to allow for more affordable housing. The group says similar policies in other towns have contributed to widespread segregation throughout the state. “Everyone in this region and in this…

A civil rights group wants to end segregated housing practices, which it says is rampant in Connecticut.