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New Study Ties Housing Affordability to Sustainability

Sarah Laskow reports on a new study by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) that seeks to rethink how affordable housing is defined to incorporate transportation costs.
7 February 2012 - 2:00pm
Good

Preserving Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing

As developers across the country increasingly recognize the market advantages of redevelopment oriented around transit, and property values rise in response, hundreds of thousands of units of affordable housing are at risk.
5 February 2012 - 1:00pm
Shelterforce
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Innovation when Good Planning Policy Has Become the Norm

Scott Doyon argues for a stripped-down, back-to-basics 'punk rock' approach to urban growth and development to replace the 'rock and roll' excesses of planning during the housing boom; and he profiles the new innovators who are doing just that.
5 February 2012 - 11:00am
PlaceShakers

Who Gets Hurt When Redevelopment Gets Abandoned?

Ron Nyren examines the various types of projects that will be negatively impacted by California's decision to abandon redevelopment.
20 January 2012 - 9:00am
Urban Land

Virginia's Green Building Revolution

The commonwealth's nonprofit affordable housing developers are outgreening their market-rate peers, bringing green building up to scale statewide.
20 January 2012 - 8:00am
Shelterforce

The 'Sword and Shield' Approach to Preventing Foreclosure Evictions

An innovative tenants-rights organization in Boston combines community activism and financial backing to force banks to sell foreclosed homes back to the previous owners.
8 January 2012 - 9:00am
Shelterforce

Affordable Housing Industry Embraces Green Building Techniques

Affordable housing advocates find that green building techniques result in higher-quality construction -- and often with costs comparable to traditional building techniques.
7 January 2012 - 7:00am
Shelterforce

Federal Housing and Envirnomental Policies Clash in New Orleans

Low-income residents of the Upper 9th Ward in New Orleans have lived alongside a potentially lethal legacy of federal policy decisions -- and on top of a 95-acre municipal dump.
5 January 2012 - 5:00am
City Limits

'Unfathomable' Budget Cuts Deepen the Housing Crisis

The continuing recession and housing crisis are being further decimated by federal cuts to housing aid, according to The Nation.
1 January 2012 - 9:00am
The Nation
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Dangerous, But Useful: Illegal Apartments

Illegal apartments present a quandary for the city of New York: they increase the danger of fire, but also provide needed shelter that couldn't be found elsewhere. Some experts think a path to legalization could work.
8 November 2011 - 6:00am
City Limits

Apartments In East Harlem Left Empty for Decades

Revitalization has come to East Harlem, but a number of apartment buildings are left vacant by their owners until they can be turned over or the market recovers enough for higher rents.
7 November 2011 - 7:00am
The New York Times

Amsterdam Has Gentrification Problems Too

A new film, "Creativity and the Capitalist City: The Struggle for Affordable Space in Amsterdam", explores the issue of gentrification in the city. polis has a review.
3 November 2011 - 2:00pm
POLIS

Does Affordable Housing Have to Look Bad?

Allison Arieff explodes the unspoken myth that public housing must look cheap and unattractive, citing some stellar examples of affordable design.
21 October 2011 - 11:00am
The Atlantic Cities

Plan to Revitalize Public Housing Stymied by NYC Parking Requirements

New York City Housing Authority Chairman John Rhea says that the city's own parking minimums are making it difficult to make public housing sites more mixed-use, mixed-income and financially sustainable.
17 October 2011 - 9:00am
Streetsblog

Take a Tour of the Revitalized South Bronx

In this article and accompanying video, architecture critic Michael Kimmelman and Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden tour the Melrose section of the South Bronx. Along the way, affordability and density are apparent hallmarks of the undertaking.
5 October 2011 - 5:00am
The New York Times
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Jess Zimbabwe

A foray by HUD into telling small towns how best to use their land

Sat, 10/01/2011 - 10:06
In April 2009, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan spoke to the ULI Spring Council Forum in Atlanta; he stated that his administration’s goal was “to put the UD back in HUD,” and explained that HUD’s over-reliance on housing solutions wasn’t helping cities address their complex revitalization needs. Just over two years later, this small new funding program caught my eye on a list of new HUD announcements:

*** HUD HOPE VI – $0.5 million
Application Due: August 22, 2011
Eligible Entities: Local governments

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A New Look for Affordable Housing in the Bronx

Via Verde is a subsidized housing development going up in a gentrifying part of the South Bronx, combining towers with townhouses and a contemporary design.
26 September 2011 - 7:00am
The New York Times
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Promoting Equity in Subsidized Housing

As the real estate market begins to rebound, many affordable housing advocates and developers in NYC are calling for a modification of the 80/20 program.
9 September 2011 - 9:00am
The New York Times

Renovation Coming to Long-Troubled Harlem Tenements

Neglected for decades, a group of tenement buildings in New York City are set to be renovated to provide a new source of affordable housing.
31 August 2011 - 6:00am
The New York Observer

How to Turn Around the FHLB's Economic Development

The lackluster performance of the Federal Home Loan Banks' economic development could be improved by following the model of their own Affordable Housing Program, writes Carol Wayman.
23 August 2011 - 6:00am
Shelterforce
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