If one thing’s clear about the housing market, it’s that it’s currently more sensitive to factors outside of your community—outside of your control—than anything within.
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In the realm of urban planning, there’s plenty of discourse out there about housing affordability—but what about household wealth building?
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In the first of this two-part series, Seth Zeren breaks down why modern-day housing is so expensive compared to housing of the mid-20th century.
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For most small-scale developers, capital is a significant barrier to doing small infill projects. But that isn't because the money isn't there to be had.
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Every time it seems like our housing crisis is going to bring everything crashing down, banks inject a dose of antigravity. How long can it go on?
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Incremental development doesn’t mean slow development. Here’s how big places that need housing fast can get there using the Strong Towns approach.
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Strong Towns is prominently featured in a new documentary about suburbanization and mass homeownership in America. Owned, directed by Giorgio Angelini, explores the human consequences of America's suburban experiment.
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After exhausting what seemed like every option in our quest to buy a rental property in a poor neighborhood, it was time to change course.
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After finding an ideal property in a neighborhood we wanted to invest in, getting a bank to finance our purchase turned out to be a huge hurdle.
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6 months ago, my partner and I tried to buy an ailing property in a poor neighborhood and transform it into quality affordable housing. Here’s what happened instead.
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The Trump Administration’s reconsideration of the mortgage interest deduction has sparked a wider conversation about its merit, and sources on both the left and the right seem to agree that it accomplishes very little.
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Federal financing rules started out as a way to help people. They’ve now become a mechanism that exploits. There is more to be gained by ending these programs than continuing them.
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