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After watching a lot of HGTV, Madison Bue, 11, reportedly asked her grandfather to help her buy a house that she could fix up. She spent the summer helping to renovate a four-bedroom house.

Affordable-housing advocates are joining the chorus calling on Illinois lawmakers to approve an infrastructure plan.

Mark Roberts reports on the lack of affordable ousing in the plush resort town of Vail, Colorado. Housing costs have forced orking people and long-time residents to move out, making the town an enclave or the rich.

Alan Cheuse reviews the recently re-printed historical novel "The Keepers of the House" by Shirley Ann Grau. Grau was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for this novel. The book is published by Louisiana State University and is part of the Voices of The South Series.

Eric Roy of member station KCRW reports on a new member of the Mexican House of Representatives -- he's a Los Angeles resident and a Mexican citizen.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports scores of abandoned houses in Philadelphia have crumbled in recent weeks, and engineers say many more are near collapse. The problem has sparked a spate of emergency demolition. Some residents fear their neighborhoods will never be the same.

In Chicago, a few weeks ago, two Polish immigrants died in a fire in a single-family house where, city officials say, more than 20 immigrants lived. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that local officials are taking steps to eliminate illegal boarding homes.

As part of her series on what's it like for Presidents leaving the White House, NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg talks to Edmund Morris, biographer of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

Listen live to former special counsel Robert Mueller testify before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees.

a late-night compromise on funding for a probe into White House fundraising after a revolt by some Republican members.