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The construction of new homes surged in December to the highest level seen in 13 years, capping a year in which falling mortgage rates and a strong labor market helped lift the prospects of the housing industry.

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U.S. long-term mortgage rates rose slightly last week after financial markets that had been roiled by the U.S.-Iran conflict became stable.

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Milwaukee officials on Tuesday recommended maintaining a freeze on a policy that had previously required the deconstruction, rather than demolition, of certain dilapidated properties throughout the city.

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Mass-timber production, barely more than a decade old in North America, is encountering some growing pains.

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A bill introduced this week would bring Wisconsin law in-line with federal standards that encourage housing authorities to develop projects that offer affordable units along with commercial and market-rate space.

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Gov Tim Walz proposed Thursday that the state borrow $276 million to invest in safe and affordable housing projects throughout Minnesota.

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A solution to homelessness, say Anne Franz and Gabrielle Clowdus, has to go beyond simply providing homes.

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A state panel on Tuesday advanced a bill that would create a $10 million pilot program to back the construction of more affordable housing in rural areas, development that has been stunted since the Great Recession.

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For decades, land-use regulation throughout the U.S. has stressed having single-family houses on large lots. This approach has priced many people out of the quintessential American dream: Owning a home. It also has promoted suburban sprawl – a pattern of low-density, car-dependent development that has dominated growth at the edges of urban areas since the end of World War II.

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A small house along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Michigan fell down a sandy bluff in an area plagued by erosion.

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