Housing
New Website Shows Home Prices For Free
Aerial photos and maps display elaborately researched price estimates for neighborhood properties.
Housing Market Continues To Cool
Recent reports show sharp rise in home inventories, along with a decline in new orders across the U.S.
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.
Vancouver Housing Least Affordable In Canada
The Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey finds Vancouver housing to be 'severely unaffordable', and 15th worst worldwide.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Condofication Comes to Baltimore
What would you do if your rent went from $595 per month to $200,000 to buy?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Pagination
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