Workforce Housing

Opportunities (and Mindfulness) of the Emerging HUD Blueprint

Mon, 05/18/2009 - 05:18

By any measure, the HUD that is now emerging from the shadows of eight years of amateur hour, is focused on the right things:  markets, coherent roles for public and private sector alike, and energy efficiency.  Indeed the emphasis on "urbanism" and "regionalism" illustrates that this administration "gets it".  

A Public Housing Experiment Faces Problems

The Chicago Tribune examines what became of an ambitious city project, led by Mayor Daley, to revolutionize public housing. Private developers received public funding to tear down old projects and replace them with mixed-use neighborhoods.
9 July 2008 - 8:00am
The Chicago Tribune
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