New Orleans For younger Americans, there may be a significant re-evaluation of whether owning a home is part of the so-called “American dream.” There are a lot of reasons for revising such personal goals of course, including high interest rates, even if they are falling now; student loans, even if President Biden continues to …
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Beat the Heat Campaign
Northern Ontario Before dawn, I slipped a canoe into the inlet at Stoney Lake in northern Ontario, where the staff of ACORN Canada was meeting for training and planning sessions. Most of the supermoon was above me, and the dawn was gradually breaking in the east as I paddled back, having flushed several Canadian …
Another Bad Housing Year
Marble Falls The Census Bureau reports that for a second straight year more than half of America’s 42.5 million households who rent are “cost burdened,” meaning that the rent is sucking up more than 30% of their income. In short, rents continue to be too darned high. The Washington Post reports that the burden …