Housing

New Website Shows Home Prices For Free

Aerial photos and maps display elaborately researched price estimates for neighborhood properties.

February 13, 2006 - The Wall Street Journal

Housing Market Continues To Cool

Recent reports show sharp rise in home inventories, along with a decline in new orders across the U.S.

February 12, 2006 - The Wall Street Journal

Checkout Time For Katrina Victims

While some of the thousands of Katrina evacuees being evicted from their FEMA-funded hotel rooms have found other living arrangements, many others are facing homelessness.

February 9, 2006 - Associated Press

Vancouver Housing Least Affordable In Canada

The Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey finds Vancouver housing to be 'severely unaffordable', and 15th worst worldwide.

January 31, 2006 - The Vancouver Sun

Linking Housing And Transportation To Define Housing Affordability

This brief describes a new information tool developed by the Urban Markets Initiative to quantify, for the first time, the impact of transportation costs on the affordability of housing choices.

January 30, 2006 - The Brookings Institution

White House Rejects Additional Katrina Relief Spending Plan

In order to avoid creating 'another bureaucracy', Bush does not support creation of a federal corporation to purchase and redevelop damaged homes.

January 28, 2006 - The Advocate

Leaving New Jersey: The Hunt for Affordable Housing

Residents of New Jersey are migrating to Atlanta, Florida, and even the Bronx in search of affordable housing choices.

January 26, 2006 - The New York Times

Condofication: The New Index For Gentrification?

In San Francisco, legislation aimed at stopping conversions may actually increase evictions of renters, as more groups enter into 'tenancy-in-common' agreements.

January 25, 2006 - San Francisco Weekly

NYC Loses Affordable SROs Due To Illegal Conversions

Illegal conversion of single room occupancy ('efficiency') apartments in NYC threaten one of the few remaining sources of private, affordable housing in the City. Housing advocates attempt to stem the tide, but it's rough going.

January 24, 2006 - The New York Times

Duany Predicts Growing Demand For New Urbanism Experts

New Urbanism pioneer Andres Duany says the movement could change affordable housing and predict growing demand for experts.

January 22, 2006 - Orlando Business Journal

Unequal Opportunity

A savvy lawyer continues to slide through a loophole in the D.C. Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, preventing longtime apartment residents from becoming homeowners at the time of sale.

January 20, 2006 - Washington City Paper

Can Increased Housing Production And Smart Growth Co-Exist?

The secretary of the Massachusetts Office for Commonwealth Development explains how additional housing can be factored into models for regional growth.

January 19, 2006 - The Boston Globe

Schwarzenegger Plan Omits Affordable Housing Funds

The California Governor rejects pleas from advocates for a steady income stream; bond measures may continue to be the only source.

January 18, 2006 - The Sacramento Bee

The U.S.'s Priciest Megamansions

From a private art wing with steel doors that drop from the ceiling to a 70-foot saltwater swimming pool, these homes have it all -- for around $50 million.

January 17, 2006 - The Wall Street Journal

Condofication Comes to Baltimore

What would you do if your rent went from $595 per month to $200,000 to buy?

January 17, 2006 - The Baltimore Sun

The Big Uneasy: Anger Over New Orleans' Building Moratorium

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

January 17, 2006 - The Times-Picayune

Mean Streets: How America Criminalizes Homelessness

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

From Hellhole to Safe Haven?

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

Stuck Between NIMBYism And Anti-Gentrification

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

New Orleans: It's War

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

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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