Subsidized Housing
Los Angeles opens public housing waitlist for first time in over two years
The 16 properties with newly available waitlist spots accept families and senior residents.
Kentucky town targets housing crisis with modular homes on city lots
Covington is using modular housing to speed up construction and city-owned lots to lower the cost of real estate for affordable housing.
Troubled Houston housing agency announces plan to resolve 'material deficiencies'
The newly renamed Housing Alliance Houston has created a new accounting team and instituted new tenant file inspections, per a recent update required by HUD.
Seattle's first social housing building gets 10,000 resident applications
The Elara at the Market development includes 150 affordable housing units.
NYC mayor announces plan to repair, restore and build new public housing
Roughly 300,000 New Yorkers live in the city's public housing system.
New Washington State Law Lets Cities Give Social Housing Developers City-owned Land
In its current form, HB 1687, which authorizes local governments to assist social housing agencies with land or other resources, only applies to Seattle.
Report: Hundreds of Vacant NYC Public Housing Units ‘Taken Over’ by Squatters
The city’s housing authority says it often takes months to renovate apartments for new tenants, leading to hundreds of empty units that pose safety risks to neighbors.
San Jose to Lease Units in Downtown High-rise for Affordable Housing
An innovative pilot program subsidizes rent in a market-rate building for middle-income residents.
HUD Plans to Bar Mixed-status Immigrant Households From Subsidized Housing
The proposed rule change would prevent people without legal status from living in households receiving federal housing assistance.
HUD Orders Houston to Submit Plan for Fixing Mismanaged Affordable Housing System
The Houston Housing Authority recently rebranded with a new name, a new CEO, and a new financial team after years of complaints about mismanagement and a lack of transparency.
HUD Threatens Sanctions for Housing Authorities That Don’t Verify Resident Immigration Status
The Trump administration continues its crackdown on undocumented immigrants, claiming it is “rooting out abuse of taxpayer-funded resources.”
YMCA: The Swan Song of SROs and the Birth of Modern Homelessness
The demise of our last mass stock of affordable market housing left us no place to go when we’re short on our dough. How will we rebuild last resort housing?
Tempe, Arizona Approves 400 Units of Affordable Housing, Grocery Store Near Light Rail
The mixed-use development will bring a grocery store to an area known as a food desert.
Mismanagement Leads to Loss of up to $35M for DC Affordable Housing
The District’s housing agency forfeited what would amount to $35 million in federal housing funds over the next decade.
Two Weeks After Explosion, HUD Lays off Entire Building Inspection Staff
The move risks leaving subsidized housing with no oversight just weeks after a Bronx building partially collapsed.
Newton, Massachusetts Buys an Apartment Building to Keep it Affordable
The city chose to buy an existing building, slashing the cost of bringing new affordable housing units onto the market.
DC Evictions Surge to Record Levels
Washington D.C. renters are losing housing aid and pandemic-era protections, leading to a wave of evictions.
One Federal Low-Income Housing Program is Actually Being Expanded
Recent changes to the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program could lead to over a million new housing units, but cuts to adjacent and complementary programs could limit its impact.
Santa Clara County Dedicates Over $28M to Affordable Housing
The county is funding over 600 new affordable housing units via revenue from a 2016 bond measure.
Housing Measure Wins in Seattle Special Election
Voters approved a new tax that could bring in $50 million per year for social housing.
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
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
