
27 April 2020 | 14 replies
Over 6 million Americans are seeking Unemployment and are experiencing a significant decrease in their household income.

27 April 2020 | 2 replies
Experience growing up in a household that made wealth through buying and fixing houses.

13 June 2020 | 6 replies
The big problem is that it is the mother of the tenants and, some might define, a plausible extension of the original tenant's household.

15 June 2020 | 0 replies
For starters, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the unemployment rate likely would have been three points higher (16.3%) had all the households surveyed answered the government’s monthly questionnaire correctly.

18 June 2020 | 11 replies
They keep moving it. ..Title Creating Chapter 193 of the Legislative Code (Title XIX) pertaining to Tenant Protections...BodySection 1WHEREAS, under City Council RES 89-1273, the Council directed the creation of a fair housing workgroup to make policy and budget recommendations “with the goal of eliminating housing disparities, lowering barriers to affordable housing, and ensuring access to economic opportunity in the City of Saint Paul”; andWHEREAS, under City Council RES 17-2064, the Council directed the development of a fair housing strategic plan “to continue to research and work with housing partners on strategies to further Fair Housing goals such as...improved tenant protections, Tenant Remedies Actions, Advance Notice of Sale policy, gentrification studies, just cause eviction, non-discrimination policies, and others”; andWHEREAS, under City RES 18-1204, the City Council acknowledged that “the housing crisis in our city and region, and the urgent need to address the crisis as our population grows,”; and WHEREAS, in 2019 the City created the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, with five objectives: to meet the needs of those with the lowest incomes by increasing supply; to invest in low and moderate income residents by investing in existing supply; to explore innovative approaches to meeting housing needs; to build wealth for residents and communities; and to promote fair access to housing for us all; and .WHEREAS, in 2019, the Office of Financial Empowerment, which housed the Fair Housing Coordinator Position, was created and subsequently developed the framework for a citywide fair housing strategy identifying decreasing housing displacement, increasing housing access and affirmatively furthering fair housing as the overall objectives; and WHEREAS, Tenant Protections is one of four focus areas including education and engagement, enforcement and compliance, and preservation and production, to address strategy objectives based on the current housing landscape; andWHEREAS, stagnant wages, skyrocketing rents, a lack of affordable housing, and a consistently low housing vacancy rate are making it harder for Saint Paul residents to find housing and to afford it over time; and WHEREAS, the number of renters has increased by 12 percent from 2000-2016 and the City of Saint Paul has now become a renter-majority city, with 51% (57,621) of City residents being renters; and WHEREAS, renters are disproportionately people of color and are disproportionately representative of individuals from low wealth backgrounds; andWHEREAS, demographically 83% of African-American households are renting, compared to 41% of White households; and WHEREAS, more than half of our renter households earn 60 percent or less of the Area Median Income, and more than half of our renter households of color earn 30 percent or less of the Area Median Income; andWHEREAS, in St.
22 February 2021 | 24 replies
Nearly Half Of Americans Consider Selling Home As COVID Crushes Finances Tyler Durden Sat, 06/20/2020 - 22:00As the virus pandemic has metastasized into an economic downturn, tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs and are struggling to service mortgage payments.New research offers a glimpse into struggling households, discovers out of the 2,000 American homeowners polled, over half (52%) of respondents say they're routinely worried about making future mortgage payments and nearly half (47%) considered selling their home because of the inability to service mortgage payments.

17 June 2020 | 1 reply
Population over 100k2. .5% or more year-over-year (YOY) population growth3. 1% or more YOY median household income growth4. 2% or more YOY job growth5. 2.5% or more YOY median home value growth6.

23 July 2020 | 6 replies
If he does not comply with household rules (i.e. smoking in the garage), is that sufficient evidence to deliver a "notice to comply letter"?

23 June 2020 | 2 replies
SOTA can be accessed by households with recurring income from employment, Supplemental Security ...I TOOK OUT A LOAN OF TOTAL 80K I FEEL LIKE WHAT MY MORTGAGE BROKER IS ADVISING ME SOUNDS GOOD BUT A PART OF ME IS SAYING I SHOULD GO TO THE AUCTION TO FIND A MUILTI FAM..AND ADD VAULE MY SELFSOMETHING IS INSIDE OF ME KEEP ASKING ME IS THIS GUY TRYING TO TAKE ME FOR A RIDE BECAUSE HE KNOWS THIS MY 1ST TIME INVESTING IN REAL-ESTATE SO I COME HERE TO ASK THE BIGGER POCKET PEOPLE SHOULD I LISTEN TO MY MORTGAGE BROKER OF FOLLOW MY GUT?
29 June 2020 | 32 replies
Factors like lowest property taxes, increasing population, median household income, low house prices, appreciation rates, etc...