Available listings, for example, are down 13.3 percent year-over-year, Fennell said. New listings entering the market, meanwhile, are down 17 percent from March of last year, according to the Reno ...

After 75 years of wanting a white picket fence, COVID changed it all. The American Dream home comes in four shapes now and so do attitudes about life.

Many experts say the lack of homes is the main problem, so developers are building residences as fast as they can. Single-family home construction jumped 16% in September.

The dominant housing story of the last century was an exodus of those with means from cities to suburbs. The American Dream consisted of a white picket fence around a private yard, 2.4 children in ...

No matter how you look at it, the concept of home is changing in the United States. The 1950s-era American Dream of owning a house with a white picket fence and a perfectly manicured lawn has ...

Aaron Glantz's new book describes how some well-placed financiers took advantage of the 2008 housing crisis to buy thousands of family homes.

Against the White Picket Fence Share full article Even for those who can afford it, Diana Lind finds, the single-family home is at best a mixed blessing, depriving its occupants of community in an ...

Beginning in the late 1940s, the white picket fence became synonymous with the American Dream. Lambert / Hulton Archive / Getty Images In little Taylor, Mississippi, outside Oxford, a developer ...

The “baby boom” and the Cold War put even more emphasis on the role of the home in American life. “The house becomes the ideal container for families,” said Mr. Samuel.

Naperville's safe, livable. An ideal spot for those who want a good, old-fashioned suburban lifestyle. Where gardening in your birthday suit may not be so out there.

Bye, bye white picket fence. Remote work and the housing crisis splintered the postwar American Dream into four different versions. Americans are realizing a better life on their own terms: in the ...