Diamond Homes CEO Arilene Carrasco hands over the keys to a local family for ... you need to buy your own property,’” she said. “At the grand opening of our new location, we’ll have ...

But when her lease renewal came up last year, buying was on her mind. New developments of single-family homes were going up essentially next door. She’d been a homeowner once and missed the ...

Many are becoming first-time and first-generation homeowners by pooling their family ... to buy their 1,500-square-foot home in Mesquite, Texas.Credit...Allison V. Smith for The New York Times ...