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The federal government's reports on the state of housing in the US have been sharply divided between the record number of Americans who own homes... and the fast-increasing number who live in so-called "worst case housing." Those are the people who are stuck in squalid conditions, or whose housing costs such a large part of their income that one more rent increase will leave them on the streets. NPR's John Nielsen explores the crisis facing the working poor and government policy makers.

President Bush today tried to keep the focus on the tax cut plan he will submit to Congress tomorrow. But the shooting just off the White House grounds got most of the media attention. Earlier in the day, top aides to the president had scrambled to deny stories that said they were shutting down White House offices devoted to AIDS research and to promoting better race relations. NPR's White House correspondent Don Gonyea reports.

In this music game, we've rewritten songs with the word "house" in the title to be about famous residences.

Commentator Kevin Kling remembers how he and his brother helped their dad paint the house. The paint job continues to astonish the neighborhood to this day.

Republicans are expected to pick up enough seats to gain control of the House, but it's clear they will not have the major gains they had hoped to receive.

Congress' attending physician announced vaccinated and unvaccinated House members will again have to mask up while in the U.S. Capitol or risk a fine.

It appears the historic Koinonia House on Knoxville Avenue may be spared an appointment with the wrecking ball, after all.

As part of NPR's year-long "Housing First" project, Morning Edition airs three reports on the economics of housing for some of the neediest Americans. In the second of three reports, NPR's Ina Jaffe reports from the once-gritty neighborhood of Venice Beach, Calif., now a hip destination for more affluent renters. Low-cost housing is drying up, and the elderly and poor are being pushed out.

As House Republican Leader Tom DeLay faces a likely investigation from the House Ethics Committee, his financial ties raise the specter of a conflict of interest in a probe. DeLay has contributed money to all five Republican members of the ethics panel -- and to almost every other House Republican.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Edward Lengel, former Chief Historian of the White House Historical Association, about President Trump's plans to build a ballroom at the White House.