Home prices, housing, and the U.S. economy. American homes are still the wild card in recovery.

Some see encouraging signs for the economy. But with jobs scarce, we’ll ask what kind of a recovery, if any, America has in store.

Ed Andrews, economics reporter for The New York Times, tells us his personal home foreclosure story.

Home sales ticking up. Is it time to bid, to buy, to rent, or still to run? We dig in.

Obama rolls out his bailout for struggling homeowners. We’ll look at who it helps, who it doesn’t, and whether it can solve the housing crisis.

The New Yorker’s George Packer takes us into the heart of Florida’s housing collapse.

Uber-economist Martin Feldstein on what it’s really going to take to pull out of the trouble we’re in.

Washington talks of help for homeowners. One plan has mortgage rates at 4.5 percent. Great news, but for whom? We look at the plans.

Stopping the foreclosure devastation. We’ll look at a plan that would let strapped homeowners rent to buy.

At the root of the financial crisis — problems with American bank regulation and the American housing market. We’ll look at both.

Housing prices nationwide continue to plummet in the latest numbers. We’ll check in around the country from Boston to L.A., and in between, to ask if housing is finally bottoming out.

The numbers out this week show a housing market going to hell in a handbasket — if we’re not already there. Prices plunging at historic rates, home sales dropping all over.
As Congress haggles over a landmark bill to provide relief for beleaguered homeowners, everyone wants to know if we’ve hit bottom yet, or if there’s [...]

When Wall Street giant Bear Stearns was on the ropes last month, it took the federal government less than two days to leap in and guarantee a bailout for a bank with a reputation for playing fast and loose in the markets.
With millions of homeowners around the country up against foreclosure and millions of homes [...]

If you want to see the madness and the grisly aftermath of the U.S. housing boom and bust, look at Florida. It’s not alone. Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, Detroit — they’ve all got horror-story numbers now. But the biggest home price drops in the country were in Miami last year.
Empty condos, collapsing values. The heart [...]

When President Bush unveiled his administration’s plan last week to help Americans — more than a million of them — struggling to pay subprime mortgages, critics immediately called it “too little, too late.”
In communities all across the country — from the inner city to well-heeled suburbs — foreclosures are rampant. And the worst of the [...]

Former Wall Street hotshot, now Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson is orchestrating a big banks “mega-fund” to help mop up the subprime mortgage mess — and try to get some of that bad debt off the books and avoid a deeper credit crunch that could still stove in the U.S. economy.
The stakes are high, but still [...]