Government housing subsidies can't provide a permanent lasting solution to affordable housing challenges, but naturally occuring mixed income neighborhoods could.
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The housing crunch leads families to make hard trade-offs in order to live affordably. A quick chat in an airport lounge reveals some unique examples.
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By making it more expensive to build market-rate housing, inclusionary zoning has the potential to actually reduce access to housing.
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"Affordability" is about far more than just the price of rent.
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What's the best way to form a Community Land Trust that's rooted in neighborhood needs?
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What does it mean to be "rent-burdened"? What do Low Income Housing Tax Credits really accomplish? Your housing questions answered here.
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How affordability is defined and measured can affect which solutions are implemented.
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A small, geographically constrained community considers how to deal with a massive influx of new residents — and how to keep things affordable for everyone in the process.
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Overheated rhetoric and protest from all sides over neighborhood change are a reflection of the insecurity many of us feel over the future of places we love.
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A new study of San Francisco’s rent control shows it raises rents for some.
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The sad truth is that, regardless of motives, the ban on low-quality housing has hurt most of those who it was supposed to help.
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If young urbanists are serious about moving back to the city, maybe they ought to consider more of the city to live in.
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Build expensive new “luxury” apartments, and wait a few decades.
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Let's stop pretending we know the simple antidote to the painful symptoms our housing prices are expressing and instead humble ourselves to admit that we don't understand all the complexity.
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Our job as Strong Towns advocates is to share our message, to keep bringing the conversation back to the persistent fact that our current approach is not working financially. We’re broke and so we must start thinking differently.
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A fetish with density is spiking the rising tide of housing demand in cities like Portland. To make housing affordable, we have to deal with the cause of the spike.
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When the issue of housing affordability comes up again and again, it is always tied to the agreed upon narrative that Portland is growing and will continue to grow, world without end. I don't buy that.
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We need to leave the door open for the people who come after us.
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Three key factors work together to make Philadelphia a more affordable city than its East Coast sisters.
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In this podcast interview, Emily Hamilton of the Mercatus Center discusses the decline of affordable housing in America and how we can get it back.
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