Housing
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.
Brad Pitt Announces Plans To Build Eco-Friendly Homes In New Orleans
The actor-turned-developer announced plans to build 150 environmentally-friendly homes for low-income families in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward.
Developing Affordable Housing In The Suburbs
With more low-income households settling outside of urban centers, planners are faced with the challenge of getting affordable housing built in traditionally upscale suburban communities where zoning has all but forbid low-cost homes.
Is The Gate Closing On Gated Communities?
The luster seems to have come off of gated communities: not only is the market for them shrinking, but they are facing rates of crime and foreclosure no different from other forms of development.
A Killer View
A Las Vegas homeowner has been convicted of killing more than 500 trees to improve his property's view of the famous Las Vegas Strip.
Rental Shortage Hurting New Orleans
New Orleans struggles to boost its supply of rental housing, in which more than half the city's residents lived before the storm.
Downtown Salt Lake City Goes Green
Green development is gathering steam in Sal Lake City, where the downtown area is gaining popularity with new residents and developers.
Inclusionary Housing Plan Falls Short In Seattle
Seattle pushes forward with an inclusionary housing bill, but housing advocates have pushed back, saying the plan does not go far enough.
The Most Expensive Homes Of 2007
While the country overall is experiencing a housing slowdown, it hasn't stopped the extremely wealthy from plopping down record setting sums for prime real estate.
Foreclosures Put A Damper On Gentrification Of Atlanta's Core
Unable to compete with the large supply of inexpensive homes in the city's outer suburbs, Atlanta's in-town neighborhoods will suffer most from the current mortgage crisis, says study.
Clamping Down On Urban Noise Could Help Fight Climate Change
Could the secret to getting more people to adopt higher-density (and therefore more sustainable) living be designing a soundproof apartment?
Venezuela Plans New Cities As Socialist Utopias
President Hugo Chávez is guiding government plans to create several brand new cities to serve as models of social and environmental harmony.
The Suburbs Keep On Growing
Even with increased awareness of global warning and more focus on urban living, the process of outward development continues in cities across America -- driven by homebuyers' continuing desire to own a piece of the American Dream.
Where The Affordable Housing Is...And Isn't
California is home to the least affordable housing markets, while Michigan and Ohio are the places with the lowest home prices.
Maryland Gives Home Buyers Cash To Live Near Work
The state has launched a revamped home buyer assistance program that provide grants to employees who buy a home within 10 miles from their work.
The Suburbs: Post-Levittown
In this article from The Wall Street Journal, Joel Kotkin discusses the history of suburban development, and looks at how they have changed in the years since Levittown.
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.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
