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1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · By Marissa J. (NPR)

   It's getting harder to afford rent in the U.S., even for middle-income families | WNYC (opens the original)

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   A growing number of renters in the U.S. are struggling to pay for housing each month, according to new research that found more middle-income families may be defaulting on rent and becoming vulnerable to eviction. While the country's lowest-income renters have always paid an outsized share of their earnings toward housing costs, a new report from the Urban Institute found that families across all income brackets are facing increasingly stark affordability issues. One in every five middle-income

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2. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · By Marissa J. (NPR)

   This house trumpets its history in the face of gentrification. Now it's a landmark | WNYC (opens the original)

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   The house is unmissable. Its colorful exterior, a painted forest of faces. Latino artists, activists and musicians, suspended mid-motion, grin down at passersby. A spotted jaguar sprawls across the garage door. Around the border of one of its windows, a message is written in all-caps: "It takes the hood to save the hood." This is the "Latin Rock House," an enduring tribute to the culture and history of the Mission District, one of San Francisco's oldest — and most dramatically gentrified — neigh

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