Renters

Apartment Prices Controlled by Computers

Landowners with fewer apartments units are starting to use software similar for pricing airline tickets and hotel vacancies to determine rental rates for their properties, reports Matt Hudgins for The New York Times.

30 November 2011 - 1:00pm

The New York Times

4th Best City to Buy a House and Find a Job: Detroit?

Homes in Detroit are certainly cheap, but are there jobs? Data from jobs site SimplyHired and real estate search engine Trulia says yes.

20 September 2011 - 8:00am

Mlive.com

Don't Fear the Renter

Kevin Klinkenberg looks at the fear of "alternative lifestyles": that is, those who rent.

2 September 2011 - 10:00am

New Urbanism Blog

Section 8 Renters Encounter Resistance

Lancaster, California has experienced a surge of Section 8 renters, and they are facing discrimination from residents and city officials, Jennifer Medina reports for The New York Times.

11 August 2011 - 1:00pm

The New York Times

More Renters Means Fewer Affordable Options

A new report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) says that the number of Americans spending more than 50% of their income on housing is at an all-time high.

11 May 2011 - 6:00am

Builder

Americans Spending More On Housing Than Ever

18.6 million American households –renters and homeowners alike – spend more than half their income on housing, according to a new study by Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies.

21 June 2010 - 10:00am

City Limits

City Officials Try to Thwart Apartment Buildings

Officials in Reynoldsburg, Ohio are pushing through strict design guidelines with expensive requirements in an attempt to encourage high-end condos over rental apartments.

11 March 2010 - 5:00am

The Columbus Dispatch

The "Crippling" Impacts of Evictions

Recent research explores the impacts of evictions, especially on single low-income black mothers, and finds that they are a poorly-understood factor in the cycle of poverty.

19 February 2010 - 12:00pm

New York Times

The Planetizen News Brief - 4/2/09

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Homeowners become home renters, road contractors slash prices, and Congress is told to link housing and transportation planning -- all on this week's Planetizen News Brief, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

2 April 2009 - 5:00am

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Protecting Renters from the Foreclosure Crisis

Renters are the hidden victims of the foreclosure crisis: they are usually the last to know about foreclosure, have few resources to assist them and are being overlooked by federal interventions. But community organizers are fighting back.

20 March 2009 - 10:00am

Dollars and Sense

'Right to Rent' as Way out of Foreclosure Crisis

The way out of the foreclosure crisis may not be as difficult or as complex as it has been made out to be, argues Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

20 November 2008 - 12:00pm

AlterNet

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