Khristopher J. Brooks is a staff writer for Homes.com News, covering the U.S. and New York housing market. Brooks previously spent five years covering the U.S. housing market, bankruptcies and the business of sports for CBS News. He has been a report...
Khristopher J. Brooks is a staff writer for Homes.com News, covering the U.S. and New York housing market. Brooks previously spent five years covering the U.S. housing market, bankruptcies and the business of sports for CBS News. He has been a reporter and writer for newsrooms across the nation, including stints in Nebraska, Florida, Virginia and Tennessee.
He is a Detroit native who holds journalism degrees from Central Michigan University and New York University. Brooks became a first-time homeowner in 2023 after purchasing a three-bedroom home in Mercer County, New Jersey.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released its July survey of consumer expectations on Friday, showing that the median inflation expectation fell 0.1 percentage point to 3.6%.
The nation lost roughly 23,000 jobs last month — mostly in public schools, retail and financial services, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday. Despite the dip, the national unemployment rate ...
American workers filed 199,000 initial claims for unemployment benefits in the final week of July — an increase of 1,000 applications from the previous week, the U.S. Department of Labor said ...
New York City officials have tapped three developers to build an affordable housing development along the waterfront in Queens that the city once pitched as an Olympics site.
The Bronx is outpacing the other New York City boroughs in affordable housing production, and a new development slated for the Hunts Point neighborhood will extend its lead.
The U.S. added 44,000 private-sector jobs last month, down from 95,000 positions in June, according to the ADP National Employment Report released Wednesday.
Employers posted 7.35 million job openings in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday, marking a noticeable dip from the 7.5 million adjusted tally in May.
Thousands of renters in New York City have spent months describing the substandard living conditions of their units to Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office, and now city officials say they have a plan to ...
New York City will construct an apartment building for the unhoused and some of the city's lowest earners on the site of an underused police parking lot in Manhattan, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced ...
Developers are turning a former car dealership and service center into a 10-story, mixed-use building with more than 200 apartments in a suburb just north of New York City where housing is in short ...
Construction crews have begun building a mixed-use housing complex with more than 300 apartments and co-op units in the Queens borough of New York City.
Five housing projects across New York received multimillion-dollar infusions of cash from state officials who said the upcoming developments will increase affordable housing stock across the Empire ...
Construction has begun on a new apartment building in New York City that's set to feature 292 affordable housing units, with some slated for disabled veterans and formerly homeless people.
There's a plot of land on Pacific Street in Brooklyn, New York, that state officials say has sat vacant for too long and should be converted into housing.
The Westchester Institute for Human Development spent years operating from a space in Valhalla, New York, that it had long outgrown, but that changed in September 2025.
Last spring, the Connecticut suburb of Groton welcomed a new three-story apartment complex called Triton Square. Not long after its arrival, tenants began signing leases in the building — a sign of ...