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Housing
A new report highlights inequalities in accessibility and affordability.
Harvard Center for Joint Housing Studies
Under the city's Grow Our Housing program, vacant offices could see a new life as below-market rentals.
NextCity
The push for historic preservation districts often amounts to exclusionary zoning that exacerbates the housing affordability crisis.
The Urbanist
Historic zoning decisions have left a lasting legacy of housing inequality. Current leaders have the opportunity to change that.
Greater Greater Washington
Despite the purported exodus of untethered Silicon Valley workers from the Bay Area, rents in the city are still the highest in the United States.
The Guardian
Philadelphia's city council passed the city's first-ever residential development impact tax, a plan that could boost the city budget by $9 million a year.
WHYY
What would it actually mean to cancel rent?
Shelterforce Magazine
Response to coronavirus challenges in urban settings will likely be a continuity of work started decades ago.
CityLab
As the outbreak continues, the country’s housing finance system faces a number of serious threats and challenges.
Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University
Los Angeles has a parking problem—namely, too much of it—caused by minimum parking requirements.
Los Angeles Times
A new facility providing shelter and services to San Francisco’s homeless will open this month, even after a year of community pushback.
Curbed San Francisco
A proposal for a regional entity to oversee homeless services in King County is running into jurisdictional conflicts.
The Urbanist
The Salinas Valley in California is an agricultural powerhouse, but homelessness and hunger abound. Finding affordable housing is becoming increasingly difficult, even for people with jobs.
The California Sunday Magazine
U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) offers perspective on the U.S. housing crisis, the scale and complexity of which he argues demands affirmative federal action.
The Planning Report
A trio of housing reforms would allow increases in housing density and make anti-displacement a policy priority in Portland, Oregon.
The Oregonian
The Pay As You Stay program would lower back taxes for qualifying homeowners and help them avoid foreclosure.
Detroit Free Press
Subdivisions in states across the country are catering to people who want the benefits of living in homes without the burdens of home ownership.
NPR - All Things Considered
Research questions and findings from Penn IUR's emerging scholars.
Penn IUR Urban Link
Mayor LaToya Cantrell wants the planning department to explore and offer up suggestions for ways the city can address its affordable housing needs.
NOLA.com
Homeless people who had previously been moved from an I-65 overpass were forced to move again with one-day notice.
The Courier-Journal
