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…
Posts published in “Housing”
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…
As she stood inside what will soon be a newly remodeled dining room of a row home in the 900 block of Douglass Street Wednesday…
How out of whack is the housing market? Well, an October poll by LendingTree of 2,045 US adults found 35% want the housing market to…
Bargains are on the brains of shoppers as the holiday gift-buying season gets into high gear. And talk about information overload: You’d be hard-pressed to…
With the number of families in need of food in southeastern Pennsylvania already at record levels, now the cost of home heating and holiday expenses…
The number of tenant evictions in Reading is on the rise, the city’s Human Relations Commission director said. “The number of evictions has started to…
Real estate is again a top investment choice, at least according to an annual poll of typical Americans. But its popularity has tumbled to a…
“Numerology” tries to find reality within various measurements of economic and real estate trends. Buzz: Mortgage rates today would be at 8.9% if they were…
“Memory Lane” takes a stroll through financial history because the economy has a funny habit of repeating itself. Buzz: Mortgage rates have run below the…
Imagine watching the often volatile stock market more like the relative slow-motion tracking of home prices. Stock price moves are typically digested on a daily…