Affordable housing can take many shapes and show up in surprising places. These places aren’t subsidized or government-run, but they house millions of Americans.
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If you're talking about growth, decline or gentrification and you're not talking about the motivations of residents, newcomers, developers, and everyone else… you've already misunderstood the problem.
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In Minnesota, two cities made entirely of trailer homes show us a different model for affordable housing — one that’s been successfully operating for decades.
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Multigenerational housing is on the rise. What does it mean for our families and our cities?
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After exhausting what seemed like every option in our quest to buy a rental property in a poor neighborhood, it was time to change course.
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After finding an ideal property in a neighborhood we wanted to invest in, getting a bank to finance our purchase turned out to be a huge hurdle.
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6 months ago, my partner and I tried to buy an ailing property in a poor neighborhood and transform it into quality affordable housing. Here’s what happened instead.
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The current climate of distrust and pushback against new development is a recipe for perpetual housing problems.
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A city is a living organism, and we should tend to it as such. A city dies when it is treated as, and functions, as a machine.
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Consider your answer. Then ask yourself, have you ever lived in a 400 square foot apartment?
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This government housing subsidy is more cost-effective and market-based than many programs, but its impacts are limited.
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Government housing subsidies can't provide a permanent lasting solution to affordable housing challenges, but naturally occuring mixed income neighborhoods could.
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The housing crunch leads families to make hard trade-offs in order to live affordably. A quick chat in an airport lounge reveals some unique examples.
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By making it more expensive to build market-rate housing, inclusionary zoning has the potential to actually reduce access to housing.
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"Affordability" is about far more than just the price of rent.
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What's the best way to form a Community Land Trust that's rooted in neighborhood needs?
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What does it mean to be "rent-burdened"? What do Low Income Housing Tax Credits really accomplish? Your housing questions answered here.
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How affordability is defined and measured can affect which solutions are implemented.
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A small, geographically constrained community considers how to deal with a massive influx of new residents — and how to keep things affordable for everyone in the process.
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Overheated rhetoric and protest from all sides over neighborhood change are a reflection of the insecurity many of us feel over the future of places we love.
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