President Trump said on social media Thursday that he is directing the federal government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, a move he argued would help reduce mortgage rates at a time when Americ...

President Trump says he wants to ban institutional investors from buying up houses, and while that's not a problem in our area, other factors are keeping first-time homebuyers on the sidelines.

Two previous proposals from the Trump administration — opening federal lands to housing development and introducing 50-year mortgages — mostly brought shrugs and, so far, have yet to yield results.