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In many local markets, the arrival and expansion of Airbnb is raising questions about its potential negative impacts on local housing costs, quality of life in residential neighborhoods, employment quality in the hospitality industry, and local governments’ ability to enforce municipal codes and collect appropriate taxes.

On Wednesday, Patagonia announced it has an additional $10 million in profits on its books for 2018 as a result of Trump’s “irresponsible tax cut” last year, which lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. Instead of investing the additional dollars back into its business, Patagonia said it would give $10 million to grassroot groups fighting climate change, including organizations that work in regenerative organic agriculture to help reverse global warming.

Homeownership has lots of pros, of course – but some cons, too. Rather than viewing homeownership as an goal in and of itself, policymakers should create more pathways to economic opportunity and financial security for both owners and renters.

They (researchers) found that when white people go to work, they are around only slightly more people of color than when they’re in their home neighborhoods. But for everyone else, going to work means being exposed to many more white people — and far fewer people of their own race.

Few Americans were in a buying mood, and for those who were, mortgages were harder to come by than they had been before the crash. So the government incentivized Wall Street to step in.

Prime-age adults — primarily males — are dropping out of the workforce and have discouraging thoughts for their future.

Emmanuel Martinez and Aaron Glantz of the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal have won the 2019 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting for their multi-part series “Kept Out,” which uncovered widespread discrimination in home lending throughout the United States.

Domestic migration between the states is one portion of annual population change. The Census data show that Americans are continuing to move from high-tax to low-tax states.

Data shows that investment is uneven, racial segregation exists, and poverty is double the national percentage across Baltimore.

It is predicted that parts of Florida will flood every year by 2070 and that one out of eight homes will be underwater by 2100.

The Supreme Court agreed to decide by the end of June whether Trump’s administration has the authority to ask about citizenship in the 2020 census.

Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said Thursday she’s growing more concerned about economic growth, particularly the impact that the global slowdown will have on the United States.

Amazon said on Thursday that it was canceling plans to build a corporate campus in New York City. The company had planned to build a sprawling complex in Long Island City, Queens, in exchange for nearly $3 billion in state and city incentives.

The 2017 Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, seemingly simple to student loan borrowers, included new qualifications that resulted in over 98% of its applicants rejected.

Gary Vaynerchuk, a tech investor and prominent speaker who just weeks ago held a conference for real estate agents, recently gave an interview in which he criticized the idea of homeownership and said buying a house is a bad use of capital.