The State of the Nation’s Housing 2025 report finds that rising home prices, interest rates, and property taxes are making homeownership and renting unaffordable for many middle-class families, with only 6 million of the nation’s 46 million renter households earning enough to afford a median-priced home.
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As housing costs go up, HUD proposes 51 percent budget cut
The proposed FY 2026 budget for HUD would eliminate key programs such as the Community Development Block Grants, HOME Investment Partnerships Program, and Fair Housing Initiatives Program, and reduce HUD staffing, while giving states block grants to create their own versions of affordable housing programs.
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Senate gives big banks $21B gift from consumers’ wallets
If the House passes the Congressional Review Act resolution, large lenders will be able to charge overdraft fees much higher than the actual cost of an overdraft, potentially costing consumers $5 billion annually in unnecessary and excessive bank overdraft fees.
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Biden defies calls to step down, asserts commitment to 2024 Presidential race
Biden’s two-page letter, which his campaign released, emphasized his resolve to stick with it and rally the party against the twice-impeached former President Donald Trump, who has been convicted of 34 criminal felony charges, massive business fraud, and a jury found him responsible of sexually assaulting a woman.
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D.C. Officials, Feds Tracking Credible Inauguration Day Threats
NNPA NEWSWIRE — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is demanding unprecedented protection for the event. Meanwhile, multiple reports indicate that the FBI is aware of chatter about plots by right-wing extremists who plan to continue their protests of the 2020 Presidential election and possibly inflict further acts of domestic terrorism like that carried out on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.
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Maxine Waters accuses Trump of attempting to start Civil War
ATLANTA DAILY WORLD — Today Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) was a guest on SiriusXM’s The Joe Madison Show, and went into detail about her conversation with the Chief of Capitol Police before the violent insurrection on Capitol Hill, and how the massive security failure could have been prevented and invoked the assassinations of JFK and MLK when describing her experience inside the Capitol building.
