"Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They're not building anything that ordinary people can afford." If you’ve said this lately, or heard someone else say it, here are five possible reasons why.
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We love organically grown, incrementally developed cities…but could we replicate their success if we started a new city from scratch?
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We keep looking for villains to blame for the housing affordability crisis—but are we pointing fingers at the wrong culprits?
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This walking tour in Sacramento, CA, reveals much about its past and present challenges with housing.
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This suburb is a growing place, but it's not a successful place. It risks becoming an increasingly isolating place full of people who are cut off from the economic mainstream.
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You don’t want to miss this CNBC documentary video about the financial fragility of the suburban development pattern.
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This catalog is a primer on house hacking, with plenty of real-life examples of how it is done.
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Even if you yourself are able to live in a walkable area, you can’t choose where your loved ones live. And as this author describes, that adds to the difficulties of caring for an ailing parent.
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This advocacy group created the first online map to show how an entire state zones for housing. And they want to take the effort nationwide.
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We’ve explored why new housing is so expensive…but why is it often the same case for used housing?
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Redeveloping just 10 percent of strip malls could fill a nine-year supply of housing in the Boston region, a new study finds. What could similar efforts elsewhere do?
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L.A. is facing an increasing problem with homelessness. Can it learn something from the efforts of another large Sunbelt city?
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Like so many other cities, Anchorage needs to encourage more options for housing. But how?
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It’s time we embraced co-housing as a viable solution for both affordable housing and social isolation.
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Small-scale developer Johnny Sanphillippo shares tales of Californians employing simple, low-cost, high-yield measures to get by amidst the housing crisis.
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In the first of this two-part series, Seth Zeren breaks down why modern-day housing is so expensive compared to housing of the mid-20th century.
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In Monopoly, there are only two types of real estate: houses and hotels. But were hotels understood differently in 1904, when the game was first created?
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Co-housing not only saves money for these two families—and enabled them to buy a home, in the first place—it’s also allowed them to better weather hard times.
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These brothers are pushing for incremental infill development in Memphis, Tennessee, with a community they’re building just north of downtown.
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When her marriage of 17 years ended, this now-single mother found herself without a home in an expensive city. The solution she found? Co-housing with two other single parents.
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