The GOP’s tax bill guts 4 of the biggest tax benefits of homeownership in America

The GOP’s tax bill will impact the housing market in four big ways.  It nearly doubles the standard deduction, lowers the cap on the mortgage-interest deduction, caps the deduction for staten and local taxes, and eliminates deduction for in terest on home-equity debt.  The new tax law represents a momentous change for how housing will […]

Crazy-high rent, record-low homeownership, and overcrowding: California has a plan to solve the housing crisis, but not without a fight

Skye Gould/Business Insider Tanza Loudenback/Business Insider Things were going well for Ira Belgrade in 2009. The Los Angeleno and his wife of more than 13 years ran a successful talent-management company, and they’d recently converted their garage into a home office and rec room. Then, that April, Belgrade’s wife died suddenly from complications related to […]