Housing
Housing is a critical area of focus for local and state government agencies, addressing the need for affordable, safe, and accessible living conditions for all residents. Governments are tasked with developing policies and programs that support housing development, zoning, and homelessness prevention. This directory offers articles on housing and related topics like planning, which examines the design and regulation of the physical spaces in which communities live and work, ensuring sustainable and equitable growth.
To be truly effective, not to mention cost-effective, a prevention program would have to be able to identify that one person who will become homeless with reasonable accuracy. Researchers at UCLA’s California Policy Lab and the University of Chicago Poverty Lab are working to make this possible.
To survive the next inevitable flood, Winslow, Nebraska, residents must raise their homes, leave or restart the town at a site a few miles away and 100 feet higher with government financial help. Town leaders are pushing for the latter.
The former San Antonio mayor’s campaign has emphasized reaching out to marginalized and overlooked communities, such as homeless people and people of color.
Trulia looked at the 20 most expensive U.S. metros and assessed nearby home values after affordable housing projects completed, finding no effect
This handful of applications and discoveries will make cities smarter, more responsive, and improve housing, public health and transportation.
Investors have less incentive to pursue the Low Income Housing Tax Credit if the business tax rate is cut as President Donald Trump pledged in 2016.
Airbnb kicks its home sharing campaign up a notch with a mayors video and a report that details the short term rental app’s tax income potential for cities.
The city of Houston is leading the nation, followed by New York City, for most apartments constructed in 2016.
The highly competitive HUD homelessness grants for 2016 are to focus on rapid rehousing and permanent housing solutions throughout the country.
Find out which cities in 2016 had the tallest skyscrapers, the most low income housing for seniors or offer their citizens the most bang for their buck.
Mayor Ed Murray is addressing the crucial aspects of Seattle’s livability and affordability. His Gov1 Q&A reveals why the nation is watching him.
Get a list of the top 10 markets to watch and find out how the 2016 election could affect the 2017 housing outlook.
Votes, laws, decision and money make the year’s top stories about financing affordable housing.
The city of Seattle’s hearing examiner sided with a neighborhood group fighting against Backyard Cottage legislation for single-family zones.
An internal investigation revealed that “cluster sites” used as overflow for New York City’s record homeless have more than 1,100 serious code violations.
New complaints since the Oakland, Calif., “Ghost Ship” warehouse fire have focused attention on artist spaces that don’t meet building code standards.
The Oakland warehouse that caught fire killing more than 30 people was an illegal residence that former tenants say did not always have water or heat
An Atlanta start-up wants to refurbish shipping containers and install them at blighted properties with local utilities to create low-income housing.
Home building is way up, but could a labor shortage under President-Elect Donald Trump’s administration slow an industry already lagging well behind demand?
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