Housing has been the biggest inflation driver in the past few years, accounting for 37% of consumer price increases in December. Since early 2021, median home prices have risen 18.4% while rent is ...

Shelter inflation, which is a measure of the average cost of housing in the US, rose to 4.8% year-over-year in December, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, the most commonly used measur ...

A nation that has grown weary of inflation has turned its hopes to President Donald Trump to help fix its affordability ... the stuck housing market. The United States doesn’t have enough ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking ...

Inflation appeared nearly defeated just a few months ago, but price hikes started accelerating again, led in particular by ...