You Can Buy a Property for $1 in Baltimore – Here’s How HBO’s seminal series The Wire put Baltimore’s plight on the map, with crime and urban blight running amok. Now, 16 years after that show ended, it seems little has changed from the city it depicted. The situation has become so…

Recession Predictions: Why They’re Often Wrong, and Why the Narrative Continues to Switch On any given day, depending on who you ask, we are either years away from the faintest possibility of a recession or about to enter one. Economists have made several dizzying U-turns in their predictions over the…

Affordable housing gap spells opportunity   As the gap between supply and demand for affordable housing widens, institutional investors see opportunities to invest to meet ESG goals and boost financial returns, writes Keith Button. Institutional investors have grown more interested in US affordable housing – as have the government-sponsored finance…