Housing
Public Housing Transformation And The Hard-to-House
A new study examines whether housing authorities adequately meet the needs of hard-to-house residents living in public housing.
Raising Fees To Subsidize Affordable Housing
Should cities begin significantly raising development fees to finance affordable housing?
McMansions or 'Recycled Homes'?
Homeowners calls them McMansions. Developers consider them reinvesting and recycling homes.
Harnessing The Power Of Gentrification
Washington D.C.'s New Communities program sells market rate housing to help subsidize adjacent low-income homes, but do the city's poor really benefit?
U.S. Should Let U.K.'s Housing Market Serve As A Warning
Skyrocketing real estate prices in the U.S. could soon fall, a situation the U.K. is already facing.
Idle Island?
New York City and State want -- and need -- the very best in developmentproposals for historic Governor's Island.
$90 Million Smart Growth Fund
A new investment fund represents a private sector solution to address the affordable-housing crisis.
Record Home Prices In Florida May Be Topping Out
Costs are going up faster in the state, including Orlando, than anywhere else in the nation.
The Next Big Thing: Urban Condo Conversions
Raleigh-area apartment complex capitalizes on a growing national condo building trend.
How To Measure TOD Outcomes
A new report offers indicators to measure the outcomes of transit-oriented development.
'Starter Castles' Change Historic Neighborhoods
In New Jersey, and across the country, housing communities deeply divided on the issue of over-sized 'McMansions'.
The 'Second Home' Phenomenon
The "second home" industry the is turning into an economic engine for resorts in the western U.S. is also a social experiment.
Developer Tactics To Avoid Housing Bust
Home-building communities are trying to quell speculation in the housing market.
Grass-Roots City Redevelopment in Baltimore
A neighborhood group in Baltimore fights out-of-town developers for city contracts to rehab houses, arguing that it does a better job of meeting the community's needs.
Battle Over Real Estate Listings Heats Up
The U.S. plans to file an antitrust suit against the National Association of Realtors for restricting access to real estate listings.
Buyers Embracing Larger Homes
Families that a generation ago were content with three bedrooms and a bath or two now are seeking homes with five or more bedrooms.
Housing's 800-Pound Gorilla
Homeowners associations are growing in numbers and power.
Seven 'Harsh' Real Estate Investment Truths
Wall Street Journal real estate columnist Jonathan Clements offers his seven "harsh truths" for investing in real estate -- even when the market is "silly".
Urban Rooftop Power Generation
In Scotland, the solution for reducing greenhouse gases and meeting energy demands may be blowing in the wind.
Green Neighborhoods
The neighborhood is a building block for sustainable development.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
EMC Planning Group, Inc.
Planetizen
Planetizen
Mpact (formerly Rail~Volution)
Great Falls Development Authority, Inc.
HUDs Office of Policy Development and Research
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
