Tag: Homeownership
Home insurance and the unraveling of Florida communities
Zac Taylor, Delft University of Technology
While visiting family in St. Petersburg, Florida, in November 2024, I found myself...
Detroit’s high property taxes are driving a housing affordability crisis –...
Amanda Nothaft, University of Michigan
Property taxes in Detroit, the highest among major U.S. cities, continue to burden the...
Americans face an insurability crisis as climate change worsens disasters –...
Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan
Home insurance rates are rising in the United States, not only in Florida,...
How Florida’s home insurance market became so dysfunctional, so fast
Latisha Nixon-Jones, Jacksonville University
Imagine saving for years to buy your dream house, only to have surging property...
The ethics of home ownership in an age of growing inequality
Désirée Lim, Penn State
For many Americans today, homeownership is an unattainable dream.
In 2022, the...
A brief history of the mortgage, from its roots in ancient...
Michael J. Highfield, Mississippi State University
The average interest rate for a new U.S. 30-year fixed-rate mortgage topped 7%...
How millennials are affecting the price of your home
Jimmie Lenz, University of South Carolina
It used to be that everyone wanted to buy a home, seeking pleasure and security, as well as the...
Does most of your paycheck go to rent? That may be...
Jessica Owens-Young, American University
New data on health across the U.S. shows that high housing costs are harming Americans’ health – and that some communities...
EXPLORING NATURE
What’s wrong with how US and Uganda plan to stop Ebola spreading
Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago
As public health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo work to...
