Housing

The Parklands of Floyds Fork has attracted development attention for years, but now the endowment that fought for the park's creation is proposing a development on land adjacent to the park to help fund the maintenance of the Parklands.

January 21, 2018 - Courier-Journal

Responding to local homeowners and politicians, Orange County will clear homeless encampments from a riverbed and stormwater channel under its control.

January 20, 2018 - KPCC

Philadelphia preserves affordable housing by investing $40 million into a new Housing Preservation Loan Program that will provide low interest loans of as much as $25,000 to fix up aging homes.

January 19, 2018 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

With the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule on the ropes, a legal strategy has emerged to challenge HUD's plan to delay enforcement.

January 19, 2018 - CityLab

Affordability is elusive in many of America's cities, but some of them made concrete efforts to fight that trend in 2017.

January 18, 2018 - Next City

Faced with commercial vacancies around 11 percent and the prospect of new office supply coming online soon, D.C. stakeholders are pushing for a bill that would provide incentives for conversions of office buildings into residential units.

January 18, 2018 - The New York Times

A controversial proposal has incited new debate about the causes of Vancouver's skyrocketing housing prices. Potential solutions depend on an accurate diagnosis.

January 17, 2018 - CBC News

A short and simple "explainer" post makes sense of why there seems to be so little ground on affordable housing issues in expensive urban areas.

January 16, 2018 - Vox

New registration requirements have proven an effective disincentive for thousands of short-term rental hosts in San Francisco.

January 16, 2018 - San Francisco Chronicle

A new book describes segregation as a cycle of social structuring: segregation begets segregation.

January 16, 2018 - Pacific Standard

After years of rising rents D.C., 2017 brought a bump in new apartment supply and a dip in apartment rents around the city.

January 16, 2018 - Bisnow

In a region where most people “age in place,” facilities offering services and socialization give primary caregivers a much-needed break.

January 15, 2018 - The Texas Observer

This list is a wishlist of the most ambitious possible YIMBY political platform.

January 14, 2018 - Urbanize LA

Fort Lawton, an affordable housing proposal including over 200 units, got a warm reception at a meeting in Seattle.

January 12, 2018 - The Stranger

For the first time in four years, a quarterly survey indicates “market saturation in urban areas.”

January 11, 2018 - Builder

SB 827, announced last week by California State Senator Scott Wiener, would revoke density maximums, parking minimums, and set permissive height limits along transit corridors all over the state.

January 10, 2018 - Visualize Transit-Rich Housing

The population of Hawaii fell in 2017 for only the third time since 1959. High housing costs are likely to blame.

January 10, 2018 - The Washington Post

For the fifth year in a row, the number of Americans moving is down.

January 10, 2018 - Pittsburg Post-Gazette

The median home value in Marin County is well over a million dollars, thanks in part to the county and its residents keeping low income housing and development out.

January 9, 2018 - Los Angeles Times

Highland Park, Michigan, a former hub of the auto industry, is looking for a massive redevelopment plan to revitalize the city.

January 9, 2018 - The Detroit Free Press