The tight housing market is good news for retailers: The Home Depot and Lowe’s can benefit from consumers fixing up and renovating their homes—if they can navigate supply chain issues.

In the US housing boom, small and midsize lenders trying to preserve slim profits are an opportunity for AI and machine learning solutions.

The letter was addressed to the heads of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) addressed a letter to Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf requesting him to share, on or before March 28, 2022, the algorithms and data used for reviewing refinancing applications.

Last week, UHG injected another $100 million into affordable housing investments. That raises its total housing investment to $800 million. And Michigan-based Priority Health partnered with SDOH startups Socially Determined, Aunt Bertha, and ConsejoSano. The big takeaway: Payer-fueled SDOH initiatives won’t slow down.

Last year, China’s military barred Teslas from bases and housing complexes, citing security concerns over vehicle cameras. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the cameras weren’t used for spying. He subsequently moved all data generated by Teslas in China to local storage.

We are then able to tell the story of how we repurpose the garments that typically get thrown away or donated (for example, we send some items of clothing to a factory that makes home insulation for low-income housing). Obviously, if you throw away garments, they end up in the landfill.

Credited activities would include investments in childcare, education, workforce development, job training, health services, financial literacy efforts and revised parameters for affordable housing. Smaller-value loans and investments that would have a “high impact” on poor neighborhoods would be emphasized, rather than just a few large-scale projects.

The new app gives users better control of their rent and utilities and other housing expenses—and could help the bank tap into a younger cohort.

Why telemental health cos should start addressing social health factors like housing: As telehealth cos like Hims & Hers and AbleTo expand their virtual mental health offerings, we unpack why it may not be enough to capture consumers, and how addressing social factors can help them reel in engaged users.

Airbnb is offering free temporary housing to 100,000 refugees. Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov published an open letter imploring Apple CEO Tim Cook to stop supplying products and services to Russia. While there’s no official response from Apple, Cook did tweet that he “was deeply concerned with the situation in Ukraine.”.

In the product and service categories of housing, food, transportation, apparel, and personal care, Black households spent a total of 5.7 percentage points more of their annual expenditures than the national average in 2020, according to our analysis of the latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey.

Most fixed expenses like housing, education, and healthcare are going up—and we can be a real partner for our customers, acting in their best interests, identifying opportunities for savings, and presenting those in a seamless, integrated way. That’s the roadmap in front of us. Our net promoter scores (NPSs) are in the 80s, and our customers want more from us.

Beijing’s regulatory crackdown will have a materially adverse impact on a range of services, including ride-hailing service Didi, delivery platforms Meituan and Ele.me, and Airbnb-like housing sharing services. Beijing’s scrutiny of platform-economy internet companies will threaten their prospects, though some companies are at more risk than others.

Lessons are still being learned around how non-clinical SDOH factors—such as lack of transportation, food insecurity, and inadequate housing—can affect up to 80% of an individual’s health outcomes. Tech players that excel at matching patients with social services, standardizing data collection, and marrying SDOH with clinical information will lead the movement.

Remittances, which typically represent 60% of household incomes for those who receive them, per Visa, are used to pay for everyday things like housing, education, and food. Such payments are essential to the macroeconomy as well, contributing substantially to countries’ GDP.

Implementation translates to lower costs and real-time speeds for consumers, which are important to those who rely on remittances to pay for necessities like housing and food. Crypto’s real-time speed also eliminates exchange rate risk caused by unpredictable shifts in the value of transferred funds over a multiday settlement process. Crypto Remittance Disruption Is Forcing Broad Industry Change.

But with global housing markets going gangbusters since the pandemic started, Urban Jungle’s home insurance made quite the splash. Drops in a multibillion-dollar bucket: Venture fund FinTLV raises $120M (2/2). We know, $120 million is a lot of money. But back in February, we had no idea just how much money would change hands in the fintech world (hint: It was roughly $120 billion).

What is the state of in-housing? The initial threat of brands in-housing isn’t as strong to agencies as it once was. Still, there are brands that bring commoditized capabilities in-house, and some even build their own shops if it’s a core differentiator or value proposition.