The “American dream,” born out of the Great Depression in 1931, has shifted away from material possessions to a more holistic ...

The white picket fence has become a cliché for suburbia. ... “To me, it represented the all-American dream,” Fresno, California, resident Lynne Gibbs told a newspaper reporter in 2008.

Beginning in the late 1940s, the white picket fence became synonymous with the American Dream. Lambert / Hulton Archive / Getty Images In little Taylor, Mississippi, outside Oxford, a developer ...

Economic uncertainty has many Americans feeling increasingly unstable about their financial future, which includes retirement. According to a new survey, despite the seemingly healthy job market ...

The current administration’s agenda is not rescuing the American Dream — it is accelerating its decline. We need to move ...

The dominant housing story of the last century was an exodus of those with means from cities to suburbs. The American Dream consisted of a white picket fence around a private yard, 2.4 children in ...

When Alisa Newman was shopping for a home earlier this year, she harbored no fantasies of a white picket fence surrounding a single-family home. Instead, she opted for a townhouse. “I decided on ...

If you live in a four-bedroom property close to the beach, then you just might have the dream American home, according to new research. A study of 2,000 Americans asked people to conceptualize thei… ...

Chasing the ‘American dream’ now comes with a shocking $4,400,000 price tag — here’s why you'll need to rethink that white picket fence. ... The cost of a house with a white picket fence.

The American dream symbolizes many abstract ideals: hard work, ... Section RE, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Reimagining a Dream Without the White Picket Fence.

Economic uncertainty has many Americans feeling increasingly unstable about their financial future, which includes retirement. According to a new survey, despite the seemingly healthy job market ...

When Alisa Newman was shopping for a home earlier this year, she harbored no fantasies of a white picket fence surrounding a single-family home. Instead, she opted for a townhouse.