Housing
Michigan Legislature OKs Affordable Housing Fund
Program to boost home ownership also helps cities.
Affordable Housing Lawsuit To Halt Redevelopment
A $1.3 billion redevelopment project faces another hurdle: a lawsuit over its lack of affordable housing.
Regulatory Obstacles To Opening A New Private School
A new Reason study suggests thatstate and local government restrictions are discouraging theconstruction of new private schools and driving up tuition prices.
New Development With An Old-Town Atmosphere
Howard County, Maryland will soon convert farm pasture into an expansive mixed-use community in the image of old-town America.
Millions Find Affordable Housing 'Out of Reach'
The National Low Income Housing Coalition has released a report showing that, with few exceptions, most States have cost-of-living rates that far exceed their legal minimum wage rates, leaving affordable housing "out of reach" for many.
Ten Tips For Acoustical Design Success
Wieland Associates's newsletter provides a list of the top ten noise and vibration ips for new construction.
Experts Urge Inclusionary Zoning To Ensure Affordable Housing For NYC
Should New York use both mandatory and voluntary inclusionary zoning toguarantee affordable housing?
An Urban Real Estate Cartel For Affordable Housing
To succeed in 2008, Democrats must establish a disciplined, national, urban real estate cartel.
Cleveland CDC Abandons Role As Developer Of Last Resort
Is Ohio City Cleveland's first neighborhood to turn the corner, or just to turn its back on affordable housing?
University Makes Downtown Commitment
New Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor commits to major investment plan in the Rust Belt City's center.
Airport-Driven Urban Development
The area around the Baltimore-Washington International Airport attracts new growth.
Contrasting Views On Developer's Achievements
biographers debate Columbia developer James W. Rouse's legacy.
Rumblings In REITland
Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are facing strong competition for investment dollars.
A Property Tax 'Crisis'?
Tax assessors are taking a bigger bite out of household finances. Now taxpayers may be "biting back."
Affordable Housing Is Good Business
The first affordable housing project to combine special green building funding with federal low-income housing tax credits breaks ground in Seattle.
Are There Alternatives For Moderate-Income Housing?
Howard County, Maryland suggests land donation from developers as a possibility to achieve the county’s goal for moderate-income housing development.
Virginia Judge Strikes Down Inclusionary Housing Guidelines
Allegedly voluntary program deemed an actual requirement; developers had protested.
End of Housing Bubble?
The new year could well bring the "last blowout of the credit card era", and with it a "fire sale" of U.S. real etate, predicts James Howard Kunstler.
What Happens When You Build Without Permits?
A Chesapeake Bay homeowner on a small wooded island builds a 3,500-square-foot house without permits.
College, City Team Up To Build Affordable Homes
St. Cloud, MN, finds the right mix of student skills and city vision to breathe life into an older neighborhood.
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
