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The Fair Housing Act at 50

Fair housing can and should be a centerpiece of efforts to expand economic opportunity, asserted Dr...

By DAVID LUBEROFF
Rental Housing

Have Incomes Kept Up with Rising Rents?

While renters’ median housing costs rose, in real terms, by 11 percent between 2001 and 2016, their...

By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI