By Andrew Dehan, Bankrate.com If you qualify for a no-down-payment mortgage, you could get a loan for the full purchase price of a home. Here’s…
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By JESSE BEDAYN, Associated Press President Donald Trump’s administration has begun terminating grants to organizations that enforce the Fair Housing Act by taking complaints, investigating…
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation in the United States ticked up in October, driven by costlier rents, used cars and air fares, a sign…
Bu Robbie Sequeira, Stateline.org When pandemic-era tenant protections expired, rents immediately soared, and eviction filings surged last year more than 50% over pre-pandemic levels in some…
Not everyone will be happy when the Federal Reserve begins lowering interest rates after it declares victory over inflation. Remember, there is a large but…
State Sen. Judy Schwank on Monday announced she has secured a $250,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development for a mobile…
Members of the community came together for an evening of entertainment and philanthropy to support the mission of the LightHouse Women and Children’s Center. The…
A state program that provides funding to help homeowners make critical repairs to their properties is starting to have an impact in Berks County, but…
County officials are moving forward with a plan to open a youth shelter at the former Berks County Residential Center. The commissioners on Thursday unanimously…
The Pennsylvania Commission on Latino Affairs is taking its message on the road. The commission is the oldest of its kind in the nation, originally…
A temporary shelter run by Opportunity House and funded by the city with American Rescue Plan Act money has been an overwhelming success, Modesto Fiume…
It’s Presidents’ Day, and to honor the nation’s top bosses, I figured an economic scorecard would be helpful. Now, the commander-in-chief probably gets too much…
It was the worst night of Gemmetta Shockley’s life. She spent Oct. 28 in a city park, her three children cuddled together and wrapped up…
Realtors are being deluged with class-action lawsuits threatening to upend the traditional real estate compensation system, with 16 “copycat” cases filed in the wake of…
Opportunity House’s Reuse & Recycle Program is all about keeping items out of landfills. The nonprofit organization, which runs a homeless shelter on North Second…
Stock performance clobbered home prices in 2023, the year after the reverse was true. My trusty spreadsheet looked at a half-century of stock-trading patterns (the…