Lawmakers are banning single-family zoning. But are apartment buildings the ‘silver bullet’ for America’s housing shortage?

Over the last five years, a number of cities and states in the U.S. — from Minneapolis to Maine, Oregon and California — have overturned rules that previously only allowed developers to build single-family homes in certain neighborhoods.  The push to eliminate single-family housing is premised on the desire to to create more housing units,…

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Your Home Sale Fell Through. Now What?

Lew Sichelman A few years ago, Nicole Doty of Zion Realty in Gilbert, Arizona, thought she had a client’s house rented at full price. The tenant had sent in his deposit, enrolled his kids in the neighborhood school, paid the movers and had his old place in New York halfway packed.  Then the deal went…

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Photos: You can own this 18-acre property that comes with three dome homes made out of barbed wire and sandbags for $279,000

A rural ranch in McNeal, Arizona, is looking for a new owner who can forgo a mortgage. The 18-acre plot is outfitted with three hand-built adobe domes, a well, and is powered by solar. It’s “not for someone who appreciates having a washing machine and a refrigerator,” its agent said. Loading Something is loading. Thanks…

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