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Consider foreclosure-ravaged Detroit. In the historic Green Acres district, a haven for hipsters, a pristine, three-bedroom brick Tudor recently sold for $6,000 - about what a buyer would have paid during the Great Depression.

Housing Works announced the details of its eighth annual Fashion for Action fall fundraiser. Fashion for Action is a four-day charitable designer shopping event that raises funds for homeless and low- income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS.

Foreclosures made up roughly one-third of all home sales this spring. While that’s a smaller share of sales from the previous quarter, it’s six times the percentage of foreclosures in a healthy housing market.

Welcome back to autumn. And here’s good fashion news. Housing Works’ seasonal "Best of" shopping events (formerly known as Previews) are back with a vengeance. Housing Works Best of Fall sales begin August 30!

Cuba’s informal real-estate bazaar is where a chronic housing shortage brings everyone together to strike deals that often involve thousands of dollars in under-the-table payments. They’re breaking not just the law but communist doctrine.

Back by popular demand, Housing Works wants you to BUY THE BAG! You give them $25 and they will give you a bag to fill up with clothes, accessories and everything in between from their amazing warehouse in Long Island City.

Housing Works is pleased to announce the hottest patio party of the summer - Labor of Love, the Labor Day Weekend Benefit for Housing Works.

Due to a glut of glitzy condo towers and the need to appease skittish lenders some developers have found a new use for the gilded, clubby preserves once meant for buyers who could afford the seven-figure price tags. They’re renting them out.

Optimism is in short supply among U.S. homebuilders, a sign that the depressed housing market will slow the economy’s gains this year. The outlook by builders hasn’t improved since the fall, when new-home sales were in the midst of their bleakest year.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced on Thursday, Jan. 20, his agency will seek to adopt new regulations that would ban discrimination against LGBT people who seek access to HUD or HUD-funded programs.