Cities and towns can flex a new zoning tool to build starter homes and boost opportunities for homeownership.

Between inflation, high interest rates and wage stagnation, it can feel harder than ever to make the dream of home ownership real. And some markets are definitely tougher to shop in than others. But ...

Will 2026 be remembered as the year of the starter home? Since January, bills have been introduced in Florida, Connecticut, Maryland and at least nine other state legislatures to allow smaller houses ...

Will 2026 be remembered as the year of the starter home? Since January, bills have been introduced in Florida, Connecticut, Maryland and at least nine other state legislatures to allow smaller houses ...

BRAINERD — Lakes Area Habitat for Humanity joined hundreds of local Habitat organizations and affordable housing advocates recently on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. to ask Congress to take action ...

Idaho Senate committee advanced four bills to ease zoning and boost housing supply. Bills allow ADUs by right and bar HOA/local bans or unreasonable limits. Proposals curb some lot-size rules and ease ...

Something rare is springing up in the grass fields along Detroit’s Kercheval Avenue: new starter homes, by the dozens. The new-home community is an unusual sight, but one that matches the older homes ...

This builder is considering a plan to create as many as 1 million new starter homes. Housing affordability is an ongoing problem for Americans and for the U.S. economy. News of the plan sent Lennar's ...

A proposal to build as many as a million rent-to-own “Trump homes” would put federal backing behind a homeownership model that has long struggled to deliver on its promise. Lennar Corp. and Taylor ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – With less than nine months to go until the November midterm election, a coalition in favor of a starter homes ballot question is spreading the word about what their measure would do ...