Thoughtful Co-existence
In a recent story in the New York Times, writer C.J. Hughes surveys a new phenomenon in New York City–building luxury apartments cheek-by-jowl with public housing complexes. In a city…
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SCOTUS Upholds Fair Housing Protections
In the flurry of historic and high profile decisions from the US Supreme Court in June came a decision under the Fair Housing Act that will affect affordable housing developers…
Is Housing Health Care? Take 2.
The homelessness advocacy community has been generating a lot of really interesting data lately. Not unexpectedly, much of it goes to support the conclusion that permanent housing is the solution…
Housing for those Caught in the Middle
According to this article in governing.com the City of Brotherly Love is responding to the affordable housing shortage by leveraging city owned vacant land. Philadelphia is trading the value in…
It’s an Unequal Day in the Neighborhood
In a recent blog by Rolf Pendall, Director of Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Rockefeller Foundation, Mr. Pendall shares the findings of a 2010 study of wealth…
Renting is the New Buying?
Not really. It’s just that, according to the Washington Post’s WonkBlog, renting is taking over in some of the demographic groupings that traditionally have been firmly in the homeowner camp. …