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Where Will Gentrification Happen Next?

This map tool hows gentrification-related statistics by Bay Area neighborhood, helping communities guess where the heaviest gentrification will occur.

September 13, 2015 - Next City

19 Progressive Recommendations for Seattle's Housing Crisis

The Urbanist chose 19 of the progressive recommendations from a total of 65 put forward by the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda Advisory Committee (HALA) committee.

September 10, 2015 - The Urbanist

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Escaping the Cycle of Inflated Housing Costs

In an insightful article, William Fulton unpacks the supply-demand cycle driving costs skyward in certain areas. To address the problem, new construction needs an unprecedented level of diversity.

August 18, 2015 - California Planning & Development Report

Code Changes to Allow Tiny Houses Sought for Atlanta

An Atlanta City Councilmember and local advocates are pushing for the city to join the ranks of cities that have allowed tiny houses as a solution to housing challenges.

July 30, 2015 - Atlanta Magazine

A Different Way to Fix California's Affordable Housing Crisis

To fix California’s housing crisis, a statewide mandate is needed that requires 20 percent of all new housing, rental units, and those for sale be set aside for low-income families, according to affordable housing developer Murtaza H. Baxamusa.

July 17, 2015 - UrbDeZine

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San Francisco's Intractable Housing Dilemma

Blogger Shane Phillips writes that San Francisco has two possible responses to its housing crisis: increase supply to accommodate newcomers, or hunker down and promote only subsidized housing. Both, he says, are lousy. Other coastal cities, beware.

June 14, 2015 - Better Institutions

Debate: YIMBY vs. Preservation in New York City

New York magazine recently convened a debate between two leading voices of an ongoing conversation in New York City: what to build and what to preserve.

May 14, 2015 - New York

Housing Market Finally Improves for Country's Poorest Renters

New data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development shows that the rental market is improving for the most at-risk populations in the country.

May 6, 2015 - The Washington Post - Wonkblog

Survey: NIMBYism Declining as a Result of the U.K. Housing Crisis

A newly released report from a U.K. housing non-profit reports a "Staggering turn-around" in attitudes about housing—more specifically described as a sharp decline in NIMBYism.

January 30, 2015 - Shelter

Bringing the Rural Housing Crisis to Light

Advocates for housing and quality of life in rural communities face an uphill battle in gaining attention, much less funding, to fight the problem.

January 29, 2015 - The Atlantic

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Managing the 'Uneven Growth' of the Urban Boom

A new exhibit at the New York Museum of Modern Art examines the growing pains of urbanism's ascendance.

November 24, 2014 - Next City

Evictions Increase as Renters Struggle to Compete

Shaila Dewan details the increasing rates at which renters all over the country forced from their homes by eviction.

September 2, 2014 - New York Times

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Op-Ed: Oakland Needs Better Housing Policy to Lead Relief of the Bay Area's Housing Crunch

Robert Selna, a land use and real estate attorney, pens a letter to the editor arguing for Oakland to develop specific and aggressive housing development policies.

June 30, 2014 - SFGate

Big Plans for Garden Cities in the United Kingdom

Garden cities have been making news lately thanks to a new book by architect Robert A.M. Stern, but a design competition and policy declarations in the United Kingdom have put some serious skin in the game.

June 4, 2014 - BBC News

Report: Big Increases Expected for California Property Taxes

A California state law that allowed temporary property tax reductions to homeowners during the housing crash is now swinging back the other way. Some homeowners have seen 20 percent increases in property tax bills.

May 10, 2014 - Capitol Alert (Sacramento Bee blog)

Mapping the Rental Housing Crisis—County by County

A new map tool breaks down the availability of rental housing around the United States by county. While some markets are tighter than others, it’s impossible to find a place in the United States that has enough rental units per low-income households.

March 4, 2014 - Urban Institute: MetroTrends Blog

Can UK Politicians Force Owners to Develop Fallow Properties?

Britain's opposition Labour Party is promising to tackle the country's housing crisis as a centerpiece of its next election campaign. A proposed “use it or lose it” law aimed at forcing developers to build on fallow land is causing controversy.

October 8, 2013 - Next City

Foreclosures Surge in Maryland, as Second Wave of Housing Crisis Crashes

The housing crisis is alive and well in Maryland, as a second wave of foreclosures inundates the state. Though thousands of residents may be forced out of their homes, experts are confident the properties "will be snatched up quickly."

August 13, 2013 - The Washington Post

How Chicago's Housing Crisis Became a Moral Crisis

Ben Austen traces how foreclosures, crime, and depopulation have decimated areas in the South and West Sides of Chicago, and the 'do-it-yourself empowerment zones' that are trying to make use of vacant properties and turn around these neighborhoods.

June 2, 2013 - The New York Times

Home For Sale Signs

The Next Housing Crisis Isn't Far Off

As aging baby boomers enter retirement and seek to downsize from their large single-family homes (the "great senior sell-off") they'll find a housing market increasingly uninterested in what they're selling, says researcher Arthur C. Nelson.

March 5, 2013 - The Atlantic Cities

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