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.
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?
The votes are in and housing research expertise summarizes the 2016 affordable housing ballot measures that will have the broadest effects.
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Voters in 12 cities will consider housing affordability measures to finance the construction or expansion of affordable housing opportunities.
A Facebook session about the Seattle affordable housing plan with the mayor attracts questions about developer requirements, upzoning, displacement and more.
Planners and partners in Columbus, Ohio, have made Weinland Park a model for successfully managed gentrification that does not push low income residents out.
The developer is asking for a tax break to build a Bay City low income senior development on a vacant parking lot.
Mayor Ed Murray taps experienced public-relations manager that has good relationships with local advocates to be Seattle’s first homelessness czar.
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The Chicago Riverline project will revitalize a riverfront long treated as a backwater and add at least 3,600 units, but no low-income housing.
Affordable housing advocates say Portland short term rentals are making the Oregon city’s housing crisis worse.
A new study and a company that trolls short-term listing data on Airbnb and other sites can help cities understand and respond to short-term rentals.
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