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A moving experience: Tips to make a less stressful, smoother move

Financial Health

A moving experience: Tips to make a less stressful, smoother move

Whether it’s 5 miles or 500 miles, the experience of moving all that you own to a new place can be stressful and fraught with potential hazards. Here are some tips on how to make it go as smoothly as possible.

Homeownership
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Improving the path to homeownership for America’s diverse communities

Homeownership

Improving the path to homeownership for America’s diverse communities

Since 1994, HomeFree-USA has worked to educate and empower African American and other diverse communities with the guidance they need to achieve and sustain homeownership.

Homeownership
Brick row houses with black fire escape.

Housing affordability: An American crisis

Homeownership

Housing affordability: An American crisis

The lack of affordable housing in the U.S. is putting millions of people at the edge of crisis. Too many Americans are spending more than 50% of their income to keep a roof over their heads, experts say, and the crisis is costing the U.S. economy billions each year.

Homeownership
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Episode 1: America’s housing affordability problem

Homeownership

Episode 1: America’s housing affordability problem

What makes housing affordability a looming crisis? Top experts discuss a legacy of the housing bust that is impacting millions of Americans across income levels and the U.S. economy at large. 

Homeownership
Aerial view of brick townhomes with chimneys.

Episode 2: Contributing factors

Homeownership

Episode 2: Contributing factors

How did this happen? Housing affordability experts discuss “one of the most confounding aspects” of the U.S. economic recovery from the Great Recession.

Homeownership
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Episode 3: Turning the tide

Homeownership

Episode 3: Turning the tide

How do we fix this? Experts identify actions policymakers, communities, and banks can take now to spark systemic change and solve the housing affordability crisis.

Homeownership
Multifamily housing building.

Episode 4: Driving toward solutions

Homeownership

Episode 4: Driving toward solutions

What happens next? Experts suggest local successes, like mixed-income neighborhoods, could prove key ingredients for the systemic change required to fix the housing affordability crisis in America.

Homeownership
Marc H. Morial, Cerita Battles, Keith Fairey, Mark Vitner, and Vince Toye.

Meet the experts

Homeownership

Meet the experts

In this special series, Wells Fargo brings together problem solvers to discuss the U.S. housing affordability crisis, its root causes, and potential solutions.

Business to Business
Wearing a black shirt, Elite Transportation Systems owner Doug Mellum smiles at the camera with some the company’s trucks parked next to the woods behind him.

Completing a father’s mission

Business to Business

Completing a father’s mission

With Wells Fargo’s support, Doug Mellum’s delivery company keeps growing and creating more opportunities to help veterans and honor his dad’s WWII legacy.

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