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Home Projects
The Infrastructure Under Your Driveway
You can maintain a perfect home, but aging city pipes and shifting dirt just outside your property line can still ruin your week.
Market & Mortgage
Breaking the 3% Fever
Buyers are finally accepting that the era of cheap money is over. The result is a new wave of 'deliberate renters' and a harsh reality check for banks.
Home & Safety
Your Tap Water’s Invisible Problem
Forever chemicals are showing up in the kitchen sink, and massive water main breaks are tearing up the street. The infrastructure bringing water to your home is having a rough week.
Home Projects
Why the Dirt Beneath Your House is Making Headlines
We obsess over kitchen finishes, but collapsing roads and stalled developments prove the real value of a home lies in the dirt beneath it.
Home & Safety
Check Your Freezer, Watch Your Street
Between contaminated berries hiding in the icebox and massive sinkholes swallowing residential roads, it's a week to watch your step.
Home Projects
The Fall Project Filter: Hidden Discounts and Roofing Traps
Contractors are temporarily eating material price hikes to keep busy this fall, but the window is closing. Plus, why you should never trust a door-knocking roofer.
Home & Safety
The Fall Safety Audit: Forever Chemicals and the Future of Your Fridge
This fall's safety update tackles two big issues: testing private well water for forever chemicals and the new technology replacing your refrigerator.
Home & Safety
The Summer of Hidden Hazards
When you buy a house, you assume the street out front is permanent. But recent sinkholes and floods prove the ground beneath us is literally shifting.
Energy & Solar
The Data Center Next Door
Data centers are moving into residential neighborhoods and straining the power grid. But this energy squeeze is creating a new way for homeowners to get paid.
Energy & Solar
The AI Power Grab: Why Your Utility Bill Isn't Spiking (Yet)
Data centers are eating up massive amounts of electricity, but regulators are finally stepping in to make sure tech companies, not homeowners, foot the bill.
Energy & Solar
Who Pays for the AI Boom?
Massive new data centers are pulling unprecedented amounts of electricity from the grid, sparking a political fight to keep the costs off your utility bill.
Money & Bills
The Property Tax Revolt
Homeowners are fighting back at the ballot box as local governments squeeze them to cover budget deficits and bureaucratic blunders.
Energy & Solar
Funding the Green Home: New Loans and a Solar Supply Chain Fight
Upgrading your home's energy efficiency is getting easier with new federal tools and state loans. Meanwhile, a trade dispute over solar panels is brewing.
Money & Bills
The Great Insurance and Tax Squeeze
Home insurance is quietly eclipsing property taxes in states across the country. It's forcing homeowners to make some brutal choices about their monthly budgets.