The housing crisis is hitting small, rural towns—often in even more stark and dire ways than in urban areas.
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The benefits to a bottom-up approach to affordable housing don’t just build wealth and resilience; they can be deeply personal, too.
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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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Detroit today, your town tomorrow. Here’s how we can help keep homes out of foreclosure and residents from being evicted.
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The housing market has been insane for decades. That it’s less insane in a small town is only one reason you should consider buying there.
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More research from the Upjohn Institute, following an attention-grabbing study last year, helps us understand the cause-and-effect chains that result when a new apartment building opens in a low-income area.
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Another spate of headlines suggest that rapid suburban growth means that Millennial homebuyers must prefer the greener pastures of suburbia to life in inner-city neighborhoods. Here’s why the real story is not that simple.
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You might get more house for your money in an outer-ring suburb. But if you have to own and maintain multiple cars, are you better off? Common measures of housing affordability don’t include transportation costs, and so they fail to capture a realistic view of the true cost of living in certain places.
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