Your housing expense ratio, which compares your housing costs to your gross monthly income, tells you what portion of your earnings goes toward housing expenses. Understanding this ratio can help you ...

Although Americans have complained about high housing costs for decades, their concerns have taken on a fevered pitch recently. At first glance, these concerns seem reasonable: home prices have ...

Over 48% of Maryland renters are paying above 30% of their income to housing costs, a trend reflective of the rest of the country, according to American Community Survey 1-year estimates released ...

If you’re earning $75,000 a year, you’re below the national average. Here’s how to determine how much home that salary will ...

According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a household that spends more than 30% of its combined income on housing is considered “cost-burdened.” And households spending over 50% ...

WASHINGTON — Qualifying for a mortgage for large numbers of home purchasers not only is a tough challenge but one that ends unhappily — they get rejected. The reasons for the turndowns typically ...

Each of Marin’s 11 municipalities, plus the county government, strived to complete their revised general plan housing elements by Jan. 31. Mandated by state law, each entity must outline how they’ll ...