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  • New York Real Estate Brokers Say They’ve Been Flooded With Calls From People Looking to Flee the City After Mamdani Primary Win

    06/26/2025 6:22:14 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 66 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | June 25, 2025 | Mike LaChance
    Earlier today, the Gateway Pundit reported that some Jewish people are planning to flee New York City after communist Muslim Zohran Mamdani won the Democrat primary race for mayor. Now it’s being reported that some real estate brokers in New York City were flooded with calls from people looking to flee the city within minutes of Mamdani’s win. People are horrified by the prospect of this man being in charge of America’s most iconic city. From the New York Post: Luxury real-estate brokers say wealthy New Yorkers are already looking to flee after Zohran Mamdani’s primary win Within minutes of...
  • LA Logic: Since Illegals Are Too Scared of ICE to Go to Work They Shouldn't Have to Pay Rent, Either

    06/25/2025 8:46:03 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    Hotair ^ | 06/25/2025 | Beege Welborn
    Los Angeles and California never cease to amaze. I can say that with absolute certainty.Just when you think things are simmering down, those folks out there come up some off-the-wall freakin' crap that just so mind glowingly unreal, you have to check twice to make sure you read it right.And then it's still unbelievable.That daffy, worthless, Communista LA mayor is still doing her posing and not much else regarding the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity that hasn't paused while LA's coddled illegals go through the motions, acting out during their tantrums in the streets.STOP THIS LAW STUFF RIGHT NOW“Mayors...
  • NYC inks $1B no-bid shelter contract with hotels to house 86K immigrants and homeless — despite claims migrant crisis is easing

    06/19/2025 8:31:59 PM PDT · by bitt · 32 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | June 19, 2025 | Carl Campanile
    The Adams administration has inked a nearly $1 billion no-bid contract with the hotel industry for emergency shelter space — despite boasting that the migrant crisis is tapering off, The Post has learned. Taxpayers are on the hook for the $929.1 million reupped with the Hotel Association of New York City Foundation as the total city population still includes a whopping 86,000 people, including homeless individuals and asylum seekers. “These hotel units will be used by social services vendors to house emergency shelter clients who have entered the [Department of Homeless Services] shelter system,” the agency said in a notice...
  • MA governor on-track to spend more than $1 billion in FY2025 on ‘emergency shelter’ program that largely serves illegal migrants

    06/19/2025 9:03:43 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 06/19/2025 | Olivia Murray
    To be honest, I for one am completely underwhelmed by the “largest deportation operation in American history.” Wake me up when we start deporting more illegals than Obummer and Crooked Joe, but, here’s a tip for ICE: Start at the shelters and hotels of Massachusetts.A new item out at Fox News reveals that state governor Maura Healey’s administration is on-track to spend more than one billion dollars on its “Emergency Assistance” program, which largely services illegal migrants, just in Fiscal Year 2025. Here’s the story:Gov. Maura Healey’s administration has already spent $830 million so far in FY25 – which started...
  • Sellers are flooding the home market while buyers sit on their hands in these US cities — creating a historic imbalance

    06/16/2025 2:57:27 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 39 replies
    New York Post ^ | June 16, 2025 | Mary K. Jacob
    After years of sellers calling the shots, some of the hottest pandemic-era housing markets are now grappling with a surplus of listings — and not enough willing buyers. According to real estate brokerage Redfin, April saw nearly half a million more homes listed than buyers in the market, the largest gap since at least 2013. But this supply surge hasn’t translated into a wave of closings. Instead, home sales have stalled in many areas, particularly across the Southeast and Southwest, where inventory has ballooned past pre-pandemic norms. In Miami, for example, there were almost three times as many sellers as...
  • 2 ex-Caltrain employees sentenced to jail for building secret apartments inside train stations

    06/15/2025 6:42:43 AM PDT · by TheDon · 51 replies
    ABC 7 News ^ | June 13, 2025 | Tim Johns
    SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- Two former Caltrain employees were sentenced to a collective six months in jail this week. Both men were charged back in 2024 with the felony theft of public funds after they embezzled money to build secret apartments -- one at the Caltrain station in Burlingame and the other at the nearby Millbrae station. "This is why I say to people, never say you've seen it all, because something new like this will come up," said San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. Wagstaffe tells ABC7 News the men lived inside the apartments for several...
  • California faces housing crisis: "No one is buying homes"

    06/13/2025 10:20:20 AM PDT · by Lazamataz · 113 replies
    MSN ^ | 6/13/25 | Story by Giulia Carbonaro
    After four consecutive months of year-over-year inventory increases, California is now solidly a buyer's market, which means the supply of homes is greater than the demand for properties in the state. That is happening in part because, as real estate analyst Nick Gerli put it, "no one is buying homes in California." Home sales in the Golden State are hovering just below the lows of the Great Recession, according to a recent report by Realtor.com, as sky-high prices and elevated mortgage rates keep buyers on the sidelines of the market.
  • Mapped: The Most Affordable U.S. Cities to Buy a Home in 2025

    05/30/2025 7:32:50 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 42 replies
    Visual Capitalist ^ | 05/30/25 | Bruno Venditti
    WalletHub analyzed 300 U.S. cities of varying sizes across ten metrics, including real estate tax rate, cost per square foot, median home price, and median household income. Each metric was scored on a 100-point scale, with 100 indicating the most favorable conditions for home affordability. For this map, only cities with a population over 100,000 were considered.This map, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, shows the 20 most affordable U.S. cities to buy a home in 2025, according to data from WalletHub.Detroit Tops the List for Home AffordabilityDetroit leads the list, with a median price per square foot of around $87....
  • Meet The Mortgage Company Enabling Illegal Immigrants To Buy American Homes

    05/28/2025 8:50:46 AM PDT · by DFG · 20 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | 05/28/2025 | Spencer Lindquist
    After decades of mass illegal immigration into the United States, untold millions of illegal aliens have settled throughout the country, competing with Americans for government benefits, jobs, and now, for homes. For most illegal aliens, obtaining a mortgage from a traditional bank — without a social security number or a credit score — is nearly impossible. But as millions of illegal aliens flooded the country, a new industry has cropped up to capitalize on the new customer base, selling financing catered to the illegal population. One entity at the forefront of this industry, a Daily Wire investigation has revealed, is...
  • Black People FUME Over Trump CUTTING Section 8 Housing And Rent Subsidy For People REFUSING TO WORK!

    05/15/2025 11:08:58 AM PDT · by Morgana · 68 replies
    Black Conservative Perspective youtube ^ | May 15, 2025 | Black Conservative Perspective
    In his budget plan for fiscal year 2026, President Donald Trump has proposed cutting a total of $32.9 billion in funding to HUD. The plan includes a $26.7 billion cut to federal rental aid — approximately 40% of the total — and would essentially end Section 8 and other housing voucher programs, according to NPR.
  • Revealed: 'Migrant hotel king' who cashed in on asylum seeker crisis rakes in £4.8m a DAY and is on course to become first immigration industry

    11/05/2024 1:39:58 PM PST · by Kid Shelleen · 8 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 11/03/2024 | Emily Jane Davies
    The 'king' of Britain's migrant hotels is raking in £4.8million per day and may become a billionaire from the money earned through housing immigrants in the UK. Graham King, a former caravan park and disco tycoon, was catapulted onto the Rich List this year after cashing in on accommodating and transporting arrivals due to the UK's migrant crisis. The 57-year-old - who has an estimated net worth of £750million - owns an Essex business which was paid £1.74billion last year and claimed this was due to the increase in refugees.
  • President Trump Signs Executive Order to Establish National Center for Homeless Veterans, Redirects Funds Previously Spent on Housing Illegals

    05/09/2025 5:07:20 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 36 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | May 8, 2025 | Margaret Flavin
    On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) signalling his administration’s prioritization of the nation’s veterans rather than illegals. The EO will redirect funds from housing for illegals to establish the National Center for Warrior Independence. The Center will be located on the Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles. A Trump administration official told Fox News, “The new National Center for Warrior Independence will help them and other veterans like them rebuild their lives.” The initiative will focus and providing shelter, healthcare, and job training to veterans in need and will partner with private organizations to expand...
  • DOGE layoffs spurred a huge increase in homes for sale in Washington, DC last month

    05/08/2025 2:21:07 PM PDT · by cotton1706 · 50 replies
    Markets Insider ^ | 5/7/25 | Jennifer Sor
    A Redfin analysis shows that the number of homes for sale in Washington, DC, rose at the fastest pace on record last month. Sweeping layoffs of government workers spearheaded by DOGE boosted the figure. DOGE slashed over 200,000 federal jobs in March alone, one analysis found. Widespread layoffs of federal workers are rippling through the housing market of the nation's capital, with Washington, DC, in April seeing the biggest surge in the number of homes for sale ever recorded, data from Redfin shows. Active listings of homes for sale in Washington, DC, soared 25.1% year-over-year in the four weeks leading...
  • Asheville Citizen Times Got It Wrong — Here’s the Real Story Ep12 Video— 1/2 hour

    05/07/2025 4:38:13 AM PDT · by Phoenix8 · 12 replies
    YouTube ^ | 5/4/2025 | Carolina Airshots
    200,794 views May 4, 2025 This video is in response to a biased article full of falshoods that was recently published by the Asheville Citizen Times about Haven on the Hill. If you'd like to chip in for gas, coffee, or gear to keep the camera rolling
  • ‘Millions out on the street virtually overnight’: How Trump’s budget proposal could affect California

    05/06/2025 6:03:12 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 90 replies
    Cal Matters ^ | May 5, 2025 | Ben Christopher, Marisa Kendall
    On Friday President Trump released a budget blueprint for the next fiscal year that would take a chainsaw to social, environmental and education programs. Some of the sharpest cuts are directed at housing programs that are meant to serve the poor, housing insecure and unhoused. In California, millions are served by these funds and state and local governments depend on them to operate affordable housing, rental assistance, homeless service, planning and legal programs. In a letter to the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, the president’s budget director, Russel Vought, laid out $163 billion in annual spending cuts coupled with “unprecedented increases”...
  • New home sales jump in March amid spring supply bump

    04/29/2025 9:13:57 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    Yahoo Finance ^ | 04/29/2025 | Dani Romero
    Housing activity for new residential construction climbed in March, spurred by a greater supply of houses during a crucial spring period. Sales of new homes rose 7.4% in March to a seasonally adjusted rate of 724,000 units, up from February's rate of 676,000, according to the Census Bureau data released on Wednesday. The reading came in well above Bloomberg's consensus forecast of 685,000. Inventory also ticked up, with 503,000 homes for sale at the end of March, a 0.6% increase from the prior month and the highest level since 2007, according to Bloomberg. Regionally, sales in the South jumped at...
  • Which States Have the Most Affordable Homes? Answer: Red States.

    04/27/2025 8:51:04 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    Red State ^ | 04/27/2025 | Ward Clark
    I've often written about how real estate prices have affected members of my own family. Of our four kids, two live in Colorado and can only afford to live in a nice, peaceful town well outside the troubled Denver area because they combine not two but three incomes. Our other two live in deep-red Iowa, in the same small town, where they are easily able to afford nice homes. They have a lot of company. Realtor.com has just released its latest Affordability and Homebuilding report cards, and I should note that, while Colorado comes in at #27 with a grade...
  • Potemkin Economy: More warning signs about serious problems with the Chinese economy

    10/09/2024 7:08:11 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 10/08/2024 | Andrea Widburg
    It’s been obvious for years that China has a Potemkin economy, kept alive by slave labor, market bubbles, and government underwriting. it can’t last forever. The latest grim forecast about the economy comes from Peter St Onge, an economist with a much deeper fund of knowledge about and understanding of the Chinese economy than I could have in a thousand lifetimes.The biggest hint that the Chinese economy was in trouble was the demise of Evergrande, a massive property developer in China. The bankruptcy was huge, with the company’s assets valued at a probably inflated $245 billion and debts of $300...
  • March home sales drop to their slowest pace since 2009

    04/25/2025 10:11:44 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 11 replies
    CNBC ^ | 04/24/2025 | Diana Olick
    Higher mortgage rates and concern over the broader economy are making for a weak start to the all-important spring housing market. Sales of previously owned homes in March fell 5.9% from February to 4.02 million units on a seasonally adjusted annualized basis, according to the National Association of Realtors. That’s the slowest March sales pace since 2009. Sales were 2.4% lower than in March 2024 and slumped across all regions month to month. They fell hardest in the West, the priciest region of the country, down more than 9%. The West, however, was the only region to see a year-over-year...
  • White House Eyes Overhaul of Federal Housing Aid to the Poor

    04/22/2025 8:01:11 AM PDT · by cgbg · 23 replies
    The New York Times ^ | April 17, 2025 | Tony Romm
    The Trump administration has considered sharply curtailing vouchers as part of its budget for the 2026 fiscal year... Administration officials recently discussed cutting or canceling out the vouchers and other rental assistance programs and potentially replacing them with a more limited system of housing grants, perhaps sent to states... The cuts to housing programs come in addition to an exodus of the agency’s work force. As of last week, about 2,300 employees opted to accept an offer for “deferred resignation” and leave their jobs...