Housing
High Housing Costs Are Good For Some Poor
Mark Alan Hughes writes that instead of fearing rising housing costs, the poor should benefit.
Reality Sets in on TV Home-Makeover Shows
Building homes for low income and special needs populations makes for good television, but not for long-term housing solutions.
Limits On Building Permits = Higher Home Prices
In a sample of 120 metropolitan areas, the housing stock expanded 40 percent in the 1950s. In the 1990s, it rose only 14 percent.
Tempe's Vertical Growth
Other Phoenix area cities are keeping an eye on Tempe's decision to build up.
What's Behind The Condo Explosion?
Do exploding condo prices signal and housing bubble or the preferences of a new demographic of homeowner?
A Financial Analysis Of L.A.'s Grand Ave. Plan
An independent financial analysis of LA's iconic Grand Ave. plan shows just how complex big public-private deals can be.
Restricting Residential Parking Near Transit?
How much can space for parking be restricted in expensive townhomes near transit stations?
Rhode Island's New Planner
Kevin M. Flynn is named to lead Rhode Island's Planning Division.
McMansion Backlash
CNN Money reports on a growing backlash against the 'mansionization of America'.
San Francisco Least Affordable Place To Live
According to a new study, buying and renting a house in the Bay area is all but impossible for most people.
Miami's Mega Metro Bubble
Miami's real estate market is red hot with 65,000 condos in some stage of development. Is this a bubble, or is Miami truly densifying?
Singles Surpass Families
The Census Bureau reports that for the first time more single households exist than couples with children households.
Mayor Warns: We Couldn't Stop Development
The mayor of New Jersey town warns another similar-sized city to be wary of developers who lie.
Housing Prices Hit All-Time High
Single home prices set a record over the past year.
Downtown: A Great Place To Work, Not To Live
According to Joel Kotkin, don't make plans to trade your suburban house for a downtown loft just yet.
Housing-related Employment: An Impending Disaster
An editorial explains why housing related employment is a disaster waiting to happen.
Selling Your Neighborhood. A New Trend?
Residents in neighborhoods across the US are offering properties collectively for much more than they are worth individually.
Why Is New York America's Largest City?
New York has been remarkably successful relative to any other large city outside of the sunbelt and it remains the nation's premier metropolis. What accounts for New York’s rise and continuing success?
Tulsa Offers $9.3 Million For Downtown Housing
Funds from a half billion dollar capital improvements sales-tax initiative are earmarked for downtown residential development.
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.
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
KFH Group Inc.
Greater Baltimore Committee
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
