Housing

Lawmakers in cities and states across the U.S. have implemented a moratorium on eviction amid concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic will leave many struggling to pay the rent.

The video was posted by AfecadoXfusara, a Twitter account for the tenants affected by the sale of real estate in Fundacion de Santamarca and San Ramón and San Antonio in Madrid, Spain.

New York City, Seattle and Miami are some of many U.S. cities that have put a temporary halt to evictions due to financial hardships likely to be caused by the coronavirus.

New York now has 524 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, which has recently resulted in its first death, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has vowed to "rebuild the middle class and ensure that this time, everyone comes along."

Airbnb has introduced a new set of guidelines as part of its effort to address safety concerns raised following a series of dangerous incidents at host properties in recent months.

The racist clause was tucked away in a document outlining covenants, conditions and restrictions and dates back to 1947—a year before the Supreme Court ruled racially restrictive covenants were invalid.

A Washington state man has appealed a court ruling that prohibited a racist covenant attached to his house deed to be removed from public records.

The Trump Organization had planned to develop new villas and housing on land next to its golf resort in Scotland.

"Blood was everywhere. It was a vile, vicious, traumatic event," says one neighbor recounting the flock that had descended on her home in West Palm Beach.

Although 1.2 million units were built last year, that figure was the lowest since 1982, excluding 2008-2018.

Carson compared his HUD plan to flight attendants telling passengers to put on their oxygen masks before helping others.

Carson unveiled a proposal to help close a loophole that allows some people in the country illegally to live in government housing while poor Americans wait on lines for years.

HUD is suing Facebook on charges of housing discrimination, but only after the company refused to grant the government access to personalized user data, a company spokesperson told Newsweek.

Two sites where affordable housing developments had been planned could be handed over to Amazon, which could mean a loss of up to 1,500 affordable housing units, Politico reported.

"We should not be tenants in our own land," said Associated Minister of Finance David Parker.

"We've been together for nearly 40 years and have spent our lives in St. Louis. We want to grow older here by each other's side. We should not be prevented from accessing the housing and care we need."

The organization plans to use a chunk of its $20 million donation windfall to fund a "travel help desk" for separated families.

Nearly 1,800 Puerto Rican hurricane survivors scattered across the United States will be kicked out of their temporary housing this weekend, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

The federal agency raised the "low" annual income threshold 10 percent from last year.

"An agency can't just decide one day that it's not going to follow its own regulations," a plaintiff said.

During the 1960s and '70s, academic liberals, civil rights advocates, and others blamed the exodus on racism—"white flight" to the suburbs. However, since the '70s, blacks have been fleeing some cities at higher rates than whites.

"He's got good intentions but the wrong execution."

"I believe Allison has print outs of the furniture the Secretary and Mrs. Carson picked out," a HUD staffer wrote in an August 29 2017 email.

She presented the fetus in a plastic tub during her passionate testimony to councilors.

An ex-chief administrative officer claimed she was told that "$5,000 will not even buy a decent chair" after telling her superiors that was the statutory limit.

Puerto Rico's housing crisis has been exacerbated by homes built without permits and inspections prior to Hurricane Maria.

Trump's budget proposal suggests major cuts to housing spending, food stamps and could put financial strain on low-income families.

A new study from Hawaii revealed that youth homelessness starts at age 14 on average through interviews with individuals in Oahu.

The Trump administration's upcoming budget could raise minimum rents and impose work requirements for housing assistance beneficiaries, report suggests.