Housing
Fair Housing, But For Whom?
The Fair Housing Act was passed by Congress in 1968, but some minorities still struggle to obtain mortgages and home loans. This article from The Next American City asks why.
Housing The Most Vulnerable
Homeless advocates are working in Los Angeles to identify the city's most vulnerable homeless people on Skid Row. With this list the county intends to take a piecemeal approach to housing the city's homeless.
Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalized For Renters, Owners and Retailers
The non-profit neighborhood housing group Hope Community has renovated ten houses, built 126 affordable rental units, and has two mixed income projects under way in one depressed and crime-ridden Minneapolis block.
What's Next For New Orleans Demolition Sites?
In this commentary from Bloomberg, James S. Russell looks as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's threat to withdraw hundreds of millions of dollars worth of housing vouchers from New Orleans and the future of the city.
The Pleistocene Dream?
Owning a home may appeal to primitive happiness-seeking instincts, but the resulting suburban isolation and solitary commutes many people face may be making us profoundly unhappy, writes Charles Montgomery.
Buying Foreclosed Homes A Struggle Unless Occupants Are Booted
Buyers looking to snatch up renter-occupied foreclosed homes and apartment buildings are meeting opposition from mortgage companies who want all tenants out before a sale. This leaves many buyers unsatisfied and many renters feeling insecure.
New York: The New American Teardown Capital
Surpassing metropolitan Chicago, metro New York now hosts the highest amount of teardowns in the country.
Anaheim Plans To Remake Its Sports District Into Highrise Urban Village
Anaheim (Orange County, CA) has big plans: 20,000 urban infill homes planned for their sports district. While the zoning change passed the council on a 4-1 vote, developers will wait for the housing market to recover.
Land of the Living, Dead
Vice Magazine presents this photo essay on a cemetery in Manila that is heavily populated with both the living and the dead. More than 10,000 families make this graveyard their home.
Inclusionary Housing Bill Gets Approval In Philadelphia
The Philadelphia city council has approved an inclusionary housing bill requiring developers to include a certain percentage of affordable housing in all projects of 20 units or more.
Are Jerusalem's Ghost Towns A Problem To Solve?
Jerusalem has an increasing number of "ghost town" neighborhoods, where tourist housing has left areas empty for much of the year. This article looks at the proposed solution to this problem, and wonders whether there is even a problem at all.
NOLA Public Housing Demolished
Despite protests, thousands of public housing units in New Orleans are being demolished.
Housing Demolitions Spark Protests In New Orleans
Plans to demolish about 4,500 units of public housing in New Orleans have angered many in the city and inspired a string of protests.
Spanish Government To Green Houses
Officials in Spain have announced billion-dollars plans to help homeowners retrofit and renovate houses to be more energy efficient.
Lagos: Africa's New York City
This video from Current profiles Lagos, Nigeria, the world's fastest growing megacity.
Small Towns Look To Keep Young Professionals By Increasing Affordable Housing
County officials in New York are looking to award more than $87 million to small towns to increase their stock of affordable housing -- an effort aimed at luring and keeping young professionals. But opposition to this development type is a hurdle.
Selling The Garden City That Isn't A Garden City
This article from the Warsaw Business Journal looks at how the concept of the Garden City is gladly embraced by developers to market their housing projects, but rarely are its design characteristics included in the actual development.
New Orleans To Slash Low Income Housing
Plans to demolish low income housing and remove FEMA trailers are putting the poor of New Orleans in a tight spot.
Report Says Growth Management Plans Make Housing Unaffordable
In this new report from the Cato Institute, Randal O'Toole writes that regional growth management plans make housing unaffordable and that states with these laws should repeal them.
Green Housing Meets Low Income
This article from Utne Reader looks at a green housing complex that aimed at an atypical market: low-income residents.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
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