Housing
When the Real Estate Market Ruins Your Plans
Planners in Houston finally establish a municipal land-bank program for redevelopment, but find after years of delays, that the real estate market has changed.
Residential Contruction Costs Increase
Increase in home prices can be attributed to the rising costs of construction material.
The Housing Bubble Is About To Burst
Business Week evaluates the the impact of rising mortgage rates on the housing bubble -- and arrives at dire conclusions.
The Past And Future Of Gentrification
Exploring the origins of both the term and the concept, Prof. Chris Hamnett explores how the equally loved and hated trend has "remade the social structure of the post-industrial city."
Builders Focus On Non-Nuclear Families
As demographics change, builders change housing products to focus on rapidly increasing one and two-person 'non-nuclear' families.
American Dream Out Of Reach In California
Despite billions in aid, low-income buyers have been priced out of the housing market and middle-class status.
U.S And Mexican Home Builders Join To Provide Affordable Housing
In a historic agreement, home builders from Mexico and the U.S. team up to provide more quality affordable housing.
California Home Median Price Skyrockets
The median price of a California home is nearing 1/2 million dollars.
Problems In Paradise
A dispute among residents, environmentalists town officials leads to an exodus from the posh Georgica Pond region of East Hampton.
A Major Step For TODs In Sacramento Region
The Northern Calfornia city of Rancho Cordova plans to build mini downtowns around each of its light rail stations.
How Developers Affect Communities
Real estate developers transform cities -- sometimes in ways we applaud, and other times in ways that make us cringe.
What Do Women Really Want? A Piece Of Real Estate
Single women are the second biggest category of homebuyers, outpacing single men
Breaking Ground For Workforce Housing In Los Angeles
A "smart growth equity fund" brings together housing and employment for middle-income households in L.A.
The End Of The Housing Bubble?
With the increase in the Fed's interest rate, there is much speculation that the housing bubble in the Bay Area is about to burst
British Social Housing Programs in Disarray
Recently released report accuses the British government's housing agency of having "lost its vision."
A Practitioner's Guide To Combating Predatory Lending
For some Americans, though, predatory lenders have turned the home ownership dream into a nightmare.
New Report On Energy And Smart Growth
Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities releases commissioned paper.
Southern California's Vision For Growth Published
Southern California's new growth strategy calls for planning units in mixed-use developments with transit.
Black Women Gaining Advantages
As job opportunities increase, Black women can afford their own homes.
Lottery Approach To Affordable Housing
A new shared equity affordable housing model is being tested in Australia.
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
