A new study of San Francisco’s rent control shows it raises rents for some.
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The sad truth is that, regardless of motives, the ban on low-quality housing has hurt most of those who it was supposed to help.
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If young urbanists are serious about moving back to the city, maybe they ought to consider more of the city to live in.
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Build expensive new “luxury” apartments, and wait a few decades.
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Let's stop pretending we know the simple antidote to the painful symptoms our housing prices are expressing and instead humble ourselves to admit that we don't understand all the complexity.
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Our job as Strong Towns advocates is to share our message, to keep bringing the conversation back to the persistent fact that our current approach is not working financially. We’re broke and so we must start thinking differently.
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A fetish with density is spiking the rising tide of housing demand in cities like Portland. To make housing affordable, we have to deal with the cause of the spike.
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When the issue of housing affordability comes up again and again, it is always tied to the agreed upon narrative that Portland is growing and will continue to grow, world without end. I don't buy that.
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We need to leave the door open for the people who come after us.
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Three key factors work together to make Philadelphia a more affordable city than its East Coast sisters.
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In this podcast interview, Emily Hamilton of the Mercatus Center discusses the decline of affordable housing in America and how we can get it back.
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We are profoundly conflicted as a nation when it comes to housing: we want it to be affordable, but we also want its prices to rise fast enough to be valuable as a financial investment.
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There’s probably no panacea for housing affordability. Here are 5 immutable laws of affordable housing that cities must recognize if they want to move forward. Plus 3 strategies for doing so.
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American housing policy sucks because we’ve been using the bare minimum of strategies to both increase production and create affordability. We need to try every idea in the book.
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Increasing affordable housing doesn't have to require millions in public dollars or fancy new construction.
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Until cities can lower the cost of building affordable housing, they'll never be able to create enough of it.
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If big developers keep snatching up huge plots of land in my city, I may never own a home. But if land is sold in smaller increments, that means more opportunities for small developers and home owners.
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I’m not sure what hurts more—knowing that people are willing to trade off that much of their income to not live “here”, or that someone I really respect has to pay so much to live in a way which, apart from the size of the home, is just a standard living arrangement in most parts of the developed world.
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The Fuller Center for Housing has helped dozens of Allendale families build and own their own homes and they have high hopes for the neighborhood. But until the I-49 connector is put to rest, investment in the area will be stifled.
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Three simple tactics could expand affordable housing options in Lexington, KY and other midsize cities like it.
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