Housing

New Orleans residents warn of civil disorder if they are not allowed to return to their homes.

January 17, 2006 - The Times-Picayune

The National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty review the state of the homeless in 20 of America's "meanest" cities, as well as those cities which have adopted more constructive measures for addressing housing need.

January 16, 2006 - National Coalition for the Homeless

How did a Seattle non-profit raise $27 million and reinvent one of the most notorious public housing complexes in the city?

January 14, 2006 - Seattle Weekly

Neighbors don't want public housing, public housing residents don't want their homes gentrified -- not quite a win-win situation.

January 14, 2006 - San Francisco Weekly

The debate over the redevelopment of New Orleans is now being framed as a "war", a "battle" and a even "guerilla struggle", with community organizations pitched against developers and politicians over policies and plans for rebuilding.

January 13, 2006 - TomPaine Common Sense

While housing demand in the rest of Canada cools, Alberta homebuilders can't keep up with demand, and are literally turning homebuyers away because of shortages of materials and labour.

January 13, 2006 - The Globe and Mail

This could be the year that skyrocketing heating prices, plus incentives, really push efficient homes.

January 12, 2006 - The Christian Science Monitor

The city has agreed to wait for a court verdict on whether the city can raze houses without homeowner permission.

January 10, 2006 - The New York Times

A new website streamlines the home buying process, threatening realtors and their 6% commission.

January 10, 2006 - The New York Times

Loudoun County, Virginia, developers have little time to get approval for hundreds of new homes before a revised zoning ordinance is passed.

January 10, 2006 - The Washington Post

For some New York families the move from the city to the suburbs is not all that it is cracked up to be.

January 9, 2006 - The New York Times

Want to see what follows a housing bubble? Look to China's largest city, Shanghai.

January 8, 2006 - The Los Angeles Times

The Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research summarizes a recent study by Harvard University economist Edward L. Glaeser that charges that zoning is major cause of the crisis in Massachusetts' housing affordability.

January 8, 2006 - The Boston Globe

Homeowners who gambled on risky mortgage products could find themselves paying hundreds of dollars more per month in the coming year as these products are reset to real-world interest rates.

January 6, 2006 - Herald-Tribune

Idaho's Treasure Valley single-family home sales and dollar value break records.

January 6, 2006 - The Idaho Statesman

Prefabricated housing used to be a dirty word in the housing business. Today, many designer prefab houses are an affordable and elegant solution -- maybe even the "holy grail of modernism".

January 5, 2006 - Wired Magazine

Federally-sanctioned distortions in the housing market are leading the American economy over a cliff, writes Bob Chapman.

January 5, 2006 - From the Wilderness

In Hastings-On-Hudson, NY, one house's history follows the price bubble's rise.

January 4, 2006 - The New York Times

With a decisive win in his re-election, Mayor Bloomberg spoke to his priorities for his final term as chief of the the US's largest city in his second inaugural address on New Year's Day: Affordable housing and the World Trade Center.

January 3, 2006 - The New York Times

An editorial outlines ideas for dampening effects of California's Ellis Act, which allows landlords to "go out of business" and evict tenants, possibly in order to sell buildings for condo conversion.

January 1, 2006 - The San Francisco Bay Guardian