The city of New York received 70,000 applications for 38 units of affordable housing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The city's affordable housing plan is a, uh, work in progress.

For the first time since 2001, there are not enough rental units in America to meet demand. Can you guess what this means?

The beautiful borough of Brooklyn, New York is home to almost 2.6 million people, and none of them can afford to live there.

After too-easy mortgage lending brought the world economy to its knees in 2008, lots of people have been chewing over the question of how to make the housing market less prone to, you know, blowing up. One idea: 50% down payments.

New York City real estate is too expensive to afford for most people who are not foreign billionaires. Mayor Bill De Blasio has vowed to build or preserve 200,000 new units of affordable housing in the next decade. Is that even possible? The experts say: Uhhh.....

By law, the heat should be turned on in New York City apartments by now. Is the heat on in your apartment yet? Ha.

Although to you the idea of buying a home may seem like a fuzzy, faraway dream, the numbers show that thousands of young people just like you are in fact doing just that. What is their secret?

At this point, no one should be surprised by the news that Manhattan is full of cavernous, bejeweled palaces, outfitted with fine linens and many pairs of fancy jeans, left to languish, empty, as their princely owners cavort overseas. Borrrrring. Tell me something I don't already know!

It is not easy to find housing in big cities. In New York City, apartments are both expensive and hard to come by. Among the many ways to address this problem, here is one that should please almost everyone: make rich people live in the fucking apartments they own.

Tiny houses: everyone loves them. We the media cannot stop writing about them.They're even getting their own reality show. Are tiny houses the future of American housing? Absolutely not. Not at all!

America's ongoing housing trends have been clear for years: upwardly mobile people are moving to cities, leaving our nation's crumbling suburbs to the deer and the underclass. The latest US Census figures show this trend continuing, DESPITE any propaganda you may hear from suburban apologists.

A long New York Times look at global thinking on how to create affordable urban housing turns up only one workable idea: "It seems the only solution would be to level all of, say, North Brooklyn and put up monolithic prefab tower blocks." We support this.

A judge has approved the 2011 sale of a Pennsylvania widow's house, finding that she had received ample notice about the $6.30 in tax interest that she still owed.

"Affordable" housing is defined as housing that costs 30% or less of your total income. That is becoming an increasing rarity in America's cities. How do we fix that? It's more complicated than it sounds.

We live in a marvelous, annoying era in which startup geniuses constantly getting rich by "disrupting" mundane industries. Hotels? Disrupted. Taxis? Disrupted. On behalf of the beleaguered apartment hunters of New York City, I humbly request that someone disrupt real estate agents out of existence.

Today in Ways the United States Tax Code Benefits the Rich: a new study indicates that the politically popular mortgage-interest deduction is useful mostly for helping affluent people buy larger homes.

The idea of "buying" a home in this economy is reserved for people who are richer, more responsible, and luckier than you. For you, the average American, the only choice is to rent. Which is good, because they're building rentals faster than you can say "But will you allow my dog, Baxter?"

The year 2013 may go down as the peak of the post-recession boom. The S&P 500 stock index rose by 30%, its best year since before the first tech bubble burst. And hey, home prices did better than they have since before the housing bubble burst. The top... or just another stair, to heaven?

Real estate in cities where you might want to live is expensive again. The gulf between expensive and inexpensive cities is large. It's time to accept the fact that you can't buy a house where you want to live, and start thinking about where you can buy something.

Are you a renter? This means, in a technical sense, that you give someone else money in order to stay in their apartment. Feel like you want to do some expensive renovations? Stop right there!