Why America Needs More Social Housing
This article is from the American Prospect website and deals with housing schemes in other countries to eliminate homelessness etc…and to create affordable housing…. prospect.org/article/why-america-needs-more-social-housing Why America Needs More Social Housing Subsidizing market prices to make housing affordable is a losing strategy. There’s a better way—on display for a century in Vienna. This article appears […]
DC-area housing prices highest in a decade
By Jeff Clabaugh | @wtopclabaugh June 12, 2018 10:00 am WTOP News WASHINGTON — The median price of homes that sold in the Washington metro in May reached the highest level in a decade, and despite continued low inventory, sales also were the highest for a May in 10 years. wtop.com/business-finance/2018/06/dc-area-housing-prices-highest-in-a-decade/
Redfin CEO: local zoning is causing high housing costs
Kelman cites restrictive local zoning as the causal factor here: “These laws, supported on the left and right are fiercely defended by well-meaning neighborhood associations that have sometimes started to act as a cartel to limit housing supply and keep prices high […]” He goes on, “It’s these laws, not market forces, that prevent builders […]
How do we make regional housing policy equitable?
How do we make regional housing policy equitable? The answer is in place-based strategies medium.com/@sfccho/how-do-we-make-regional-housing-policy-equitable-467a02813141 From ::: Council of Community Housing Organizations The Council of Community Housing Organizations (CCHO) Leading SF’s affordable housing movement since 1978,fighting for funding & policies to make SF affordable.
Washington Torn Over How to Grow Without ‘Breaking Up a Village’
Washington Torn Over How to Grow Without ‘Breaking Up a Village’ By Eugene L. Meyer, June 5, 2018, NY Times A battle between market forces leading to gentrification and the pushback to maintain affordable housing is playing out in the capital’s neighborhoods. www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/business/washington-real-estate.html
Will Opportunity Zones help distressed residents or be a tax cut for gentrification?
Will Opportunity Zones help distressed residents or be a tax cut for gentrification? Adam Looney, Brookings, February 26, 2018 Adam Looney at the Brookings Institute did a study on the efficacy of Empowerment Zones. . . it is useful to find that a scholar describes them as accelerators of displacement: www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2018/02/26/will-oppo rtunity-zones-help-distressed-residents-or-be-a-tax-cut-for-gentrification/
Infographic: Why Normal People Can’t Afford a House by Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz and Chris Winters — YES! Magazine
Infographic: Why Normal People Can’t Afford a House by Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz and Chris Winters — YES! Magazine www.yesmagazine.org/issues/affordable-housing/infogra phic-why-normal-people-cant-afford-a-house-20180604
[housingarchive] Housing solutions in Morristown NJ
Non-profit Organization website with great resources www.homelesssolutions.org/about-us/