The delivery of thousands of affordable homes by private housebuilders is being held up because social housing providers are unable to buy them, research has shown. A study found 17,400 affordable homes in England and Wales with planning permission could not be built because housing associations did not have the financial capacity to bid for them. The Home Builders Federation (HBF), which carried out the survey of 32 housebuilders, warned the...

Happy Tuesday and Happy New Year! With the cost of housing ever-present in the public consciousness, state legislatures reconvening, and elections out of the way, we can expect 2025 to be action-packed with lots of wonky housing policy fights. Rent Free will be here to cover them all. As policymakers go about considering reforms aimed at making their cities more affordable, it's important to understand what success will look like. Even more importantly, it's important to understand what success does not look like.

Regardless of whether you own or rent, there is no doubt that housing costs are the biggest expense in your budget. The 18 best U.S. cities where housing is actually affordable allow you to minimize the biggest outlay, and in this current cost of living crisis, we need all the savings we can get.

The average sales price of new mobile homes, or manufactured homes, jumped 58.3% between 2018 and 2023, according to a new study.