The Housing Chronicles Blog

As a native Californian, I can tell you that The Golden State can be a great place to live if you enjoy three critical factors: Affordable housing, a reasonable commute and, for those who rely on cars, convenient parking. But for many of the state’s...

If you’ve been keeping up on economic news lately, both the global and U.S. domestic economies are in an odd place. Not too long ago, a combination of lower job gains, declining business confidence and stalling wage growth was suggesting the end was...

It seems that nearly every day now, we read another headline about new high temperature records being broken throughout the world.
Fortunately, like much of the private sector, the building industry is not waiting for a national political consensus to seriously address climate change, and has stepped up with a combination of clever planning, innovative products, and whole-house...

You’ve probably heard something recently about Opportunity Zones (or o-zones), which were established by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 to employ tax incentives for long-term investments in rural and low-income, urban communities.  As the first national...