With many baby boomers wanting to downsize, the housing market is dominated by large, single-family homes…but that’s not the kind of housing that’s in demand, anymore. Here’s why this is bad news for all generations.
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This LA resident has gone viral after taking matters into his own hands to deal with the housing crisis.
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Airbnb owners have voiced concerns over plummeting bookings in the last few months. Are we witnessing the “Airbnbust,” and if so, what does this mean for the housing market, as a whole?
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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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Increasingly, for entire cities in the U.S., buying a starter home on a modest income is no longer an option.
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Are Wall Street-backed investors the reason you can’t afford a house? The truth is a bit more complicated than that.
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When you’re not allowed to build the kind of housing you want, sometimes you have to work with what’s already here.
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In Detroit's 48205 zip code, from 2014 to 2020, the number of vacant homes hardly budged, despite $25M spent demolishing 1,628 vacant homes. When the pandemic hit, vacant homes plummeted. What happened?
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Manufactured homes were promoted at the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2022 Innovative Housing Showcase. Could this be a viable affordable housing option?
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This week’s Upzoned episode reflects on how the nuances of housing policy don’t lend themselves to broad stereotypes.
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For too long, our housing policy has put investor returns and macroeconomic goals over the universal human need for shelter. The Strong Towns approach to incremental housing is a badly needed corrective.
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The Fed’s pandemic actions to loosen up capital unseized a market and fueled a housing boom—but now, a potential opposite reaction could lose U.S. taxpayers billions and be bad for housing.
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What does this case study imply for housing in the U.S., as a whole?
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How have we come to the conclusion that most short-term rentals are taxed as “residential,” when many have no residents?
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"Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They're not building anything that ordinary people can afford." If you’ve said this lately, or heard someone else say it, here are five possible reasons why.
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We keep looking for villains to blame for the housing affordability crisis—but are we pointing fingers at the wrong culprits?
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This walking tour in Sacramento, CA, reveals much about its past and present challenges with housing.
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We’ve explored why new housing is so expensive…but why is it often the same case for used housing?
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The eviction moratorium is going to end, and when it does, we face the prospect of mass evictions throughout the country. Let's talk about what that means and what it says about our housing system.
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A controversy-courting Atlantic article makes a full-throated defense of “luxury” development—and argues that more, not less, of it is what the doctor ordered for our unaffordable housing markets. Does this prescription hit the mark?
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