Furniture Stores Crumble in Frozen Housing Market
April 9, 2026·about 3 hours ago·via The New York Times

America's furniture stores face extinction as the housing market remains frozen, with sky-high interest rates and stagnant home sales crushing demand for new furnishings. Independent retailers, the backbone of small-town economies, shutter at alarming rates while big-box giants barely hang on. This crisis stems from Biden-era inflation and Federal Reserve overreach that jacked up mortgage costs, pricing out working families from the American Dream of homeownership. Read more about this...