Housing

Yale economist Robert Schiller believes that the housing market is showing signs of improvement. "At this point, people are thinking the fall is over," says Schiller.

July 1, 2009 - Bloomberg.com

With interdepartmental cooperation blossoming within the Obama administration, Neal Peirce wonders how things will shake down when policies hit metropolitan regions -- and the municipal borders that can impede and confuse policy.

June 29, 2009 - Citiwire

New York City recently acquired land to develop parkspace and housing for middle and moderate-income New Yorkers in Queens.

June 28, 2009 - The Architect's Newspaper

Grass Root Efforts to Help Bring Back a Much-Loved Building Form

June 27, 2009 - Denver Daily News

Gary Mason describes how Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson's policy of rapid expansion of homeless shelters -- including two in residential areas -- has "completely changed" those neighborhoods.

June 26, 2009 - The Globe and Mail

At the PCBC builder's conference in San Francisco, the award-winning designs were 'smaller, greener, more urban and more affordable.'

June 26, 2009 - Builder Magazine

Obama Administration officials, speaking at a conference of real estate writers and editors, admitted that the housing crisis is far from over and administration efforts are taking time to have an effect.

June 22, 2009 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Planners in New Jersey developed ambitious plans for transit-oriented development along their rail corridors, but with the struggling housing market and poor economy, developers aren't showing up or have halted projects in the works.

June 22, 2009 - The New York Times

The Economist magazine has published it's list of the most livable cities in the world. But quite a few of these cities have the most unaffordable housing, complains Owen McShane.

June 22, 2009 - New Geography

Next month, Vancouver will begin a two-and-a-half year incentive program to encourage developers to build affordable housing.

June 21, 2009 - The Globe and Mail

The Lighthouse at Long Island is a proposed 5.5 million sq. ft. of mixed-use development covering 150 acres of Nassau County. The developers see it as a new form of smart growth suburbia.

June 19, 2009 - The New York Times

A state supreme court ruling will prevent the city of Cleveland from requiring its employees to live within the city limits. City leaders fear neighborhoods will decline, while some firefighters and other city employees say they'll stick around.

June 17, 2009 - Cleveland Plain Dealer

Thousands of families who are still living in temporary trailers after Hurricane Katrina face uncertainty in their housing this summer.

June 16, 2009 - The Boston Globe

DuPage County may let developers bypass the County Board for project approval if they develop low- to moderate-income housing projects.

June 15, 2009 - Chicago Tribune

Congresswoman Laura Richardson has gotten on the nerves of her Sacramento neighbors, mainly because she's never around. As a result, her home has gone untended and turned into a blight on the neighborhood.

June 12, 2009 - Los Angeles Times

In Phoenix, human traffickers are using foreclosed homes to hold illegal immigrants hostage.

June 10, 2009 - The Wall St. Journal

For low-income people in the Mankato, Minnesota area, there might be no hope for assistance from government vouchers.

June 10, 2009 - The Free Press

American artist Mike Bouchet constructed a full-sized replica of a standard American suburban home to float outside the Venice Biennale art exhibition. Instead, the house sank, suggesting new meanings for the artwork.

June 9, 2009 - AFP

Fort Lauderdale joins a national program which will provide $3.7 million to change foreclosed homes into affordable housing.

June 8, 2009 - Sun-Sentinel

Schadenfreude is a German concept that means "taking pleasure in the suffering of others." Columnist Meghan Daum is experiencing 'debtenfreude'; the pleasure in watching house flippers and McMansion builders fall to the economic downturn.

June 8, 2009 - Los Angeles Times