Housing

A big data dump from Trulia, supplemented by helpful analysis, helps make sense of the U.S. rental market.

January 26, 2018 - Trulia

California State Senator Scott Wiener made a big splash this month by announcing a package of pro-development bills, and now interest groups are taking sides in a heated debate over housing and density.

January 25, 2018 - San Francisco Chronicle

Even in liberal states like California, government-sanctioned residential segregation persisted in the 20th century. In a recent talk in L.A., Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law, charged planners with undoing this shameful legacy.

January 24, 2018 - California Planning & Development Report

Given the fact that many homeless patients end up costing the system a lot more than average, several Chicago hospitals are considering ways to house them.

January 24, 2018 - Crain's Chicago Business

New York demonstrates how pension funds can be a major source of financing for affordable housing.

January 23, 2018 - Next City

If approved, a City Council motion would mark a shift in how Los Angeles deals with a rising number of homeless residents.

January 23, 2018 - Los Angeles Times

One side of an ongoing debate in Nashville wants to charge a fee for short-term rentals,; the other side wants to ban anything other than owner-occupied short-term rentals entirely.

January 23, 2018 - The Tennessean

A study of a poorer neighborhood in Buenos Aires reveals that a delicate balance of design, public space, planning, and access are keys to success.

January 22, 2018 - Next City

The threat of a lawsuit by the California Renters Legal Advocacy has the city of Dublin rethinking a housing proposal that would add 220 units near the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station.

January 22, 2018 - The Independent

Wondering what a Community Land Trust is? Look no further.

January 22, 2018 - Marketwatch

The Parklands of Floyds Fork has attracted development attention for years, but now the endowment that fought for the park's creation is proposing a development on land adjacent to the park to help fund the maintenance of the Parklands.

January 21, 2018 - Courier-Journal

Responding to local homeowners and politicians, Orange County will clear homeless encampments from a riverbed and stormwater channel under its control.

January 20, 2018 - KPCC

Philadelphia preserves affordable housing by investing $40 million into a new Housing Preservation Loan Program that will provide low interest loans of as much as $25,000 to fix up aging homes.

January 19, 2018 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

With the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule on the ropes, a legal strategy has emerged to challenge HUD's plan to delay enforcement.

January 19, 2018 - CityLab

Affordability is elusive in many of America's cities, but some of them made concrete efforts to fight that trend in 2017.

January 18, 2018 - Next City

Faced with commercial vacancies around 11 percent and the prospect of new office supply coming online soon, D.C. stakeholders are pushing for a bill that would provide incentives for conversions of office buildings into residential units.

January 18, 2018 - The New York Times

A controversial proposal has incited new debate about the causes of Vancouver's skyrocketing housing prices. Potential solutions depend on an accurate diagnosis.

January 17, 2018 - CBC News

A short and simple "explainer" post makes sense of why there seems to be so little ground on affordable housing issues in expensive urban areas.

January 16, 2018 - Vox

New registration requirements have proven an effective disincentive for thousands of short-term rental hosts in San Francisco.

January 16, 2018 - San Francisco Chronicle

A new book describes segregation as a cycle of social structuring: segregation begets segregation.

January 16, 2018 - Pacific Standard