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Migrating Buyers Are Taking Over Regional Markets With Big Budgets

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Relocating Americans are going toe-to-toe with local buyers in popular metros like Nashville and Philadelphia, and with inflated budgets, newcomers are sweeping the competition and laying down their roots for good. Philadelphia saw a similar ratio with a 28.4% Philadelphia saw a similar ratio with a 28.4%

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3 affordable housing projects that serve as social catalysts

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Eleven million people in this country are paying more than half of their income for rent, and these are low-income people,” says Richard Burns, CEO of the NHP Foundation, a national not-for-profit provider of affordable housing. Affordable housing is housing built for people who earn 80% or less of the area median income (AMI).

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Prognosis: Positive: Rutgers University-Camden Nursing and Science Building

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At $26,783 median family income, Camden, N.J., Lying just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, the city of 74,420, home of Campbell’s Soup Company, has been battling economic decline for decades. ranks just behind Reading, Pa., and Flint, Mich., in poverty level among U.S. cities of 65,000 or more.

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Home Prices Climbed Most Rapidly in Communities of Color

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In the Philadelphia metro, for example, the 51 zip codes where people of color represented at least half the population averaged 14.3 percentage points higher than the price growth in all 353 Philadelphia metro zip codes. For instance, home prices also rose faster than average in lower-income neighborhoods. percentage points.

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Paseo Verde in Philadelphia is nation’s first LEED Platinum neighborhood development

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Paseo Verde, a mixed-use, mixed-income community hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony last month. The complex is the country''s first Platinum LEED-certified Neighborhood Development, a distinction that it earned by creating an eco-friendly, transit-focused project. read more.

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NAHB Releases Its 2022 “Priced Out” Estimates, and They Could Spell Trouble for Thousands

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are not able to afford a new median priced home in 2022, according to NAHB’s Eye on Housing, meaning that 69% of Americans have incomes that are insufficient to qualify for a mortgage under standard underwriting criteria. Roughly 87.5 million households across the U.S. Affordability. Market Data + Trends. Housing Markets. Affordability.

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Forbearance Exits Expected to Add Inventory

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Low-income borrowers — who often, but not always, use federally backed programs including low down payment loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to help them secure a home — may be particularly vulnerable, with less savings and monthly cash flow to work their way out of forbearance. Baltimore; Riverside, Calif.;