Truly Affordable Social Housing, Paid For By The Free Market? Dream On
Why go to Australia via Canada in order to understand the USA's RAD (Rental Assistance Demonstration program) — the social housing rescue initiative of Department of Housing and Urban...
California Rich & Poor: If We All Live In A Yellow Submarine, Will We Despise Each Other Less?
Affordablehousingaction.org has been following one of the few currently active 'social housing' projects in the USA. With a touch of good old American self-interest, activists have decided that a...
Chasing The Almighty Dollar To Build Affordable Housing
When developers in the United States are putting together the funding for an affordable housing project, they may tap local or state housing trust funds.
Trust funds are generally set...
Converting Private Rental Housing To Social Housing – The Whys And The Hows
Here is another call to purchase existing housing to accomplish social objectives, this time from EnglandFor an example from Canada try: Canadian Bank Speaks Up In Favour Of Social...
Finding Money To Build Housing For People Who Are Homeless
It takes a lot of money to fund a housing project for people who are homeless. Where does it come from? In the U.S., there are consultants who specialize...
New HUD Secretary’s Housing Experience Is A Mixed Message For Change
A recent article in City Journal attempts to put a hopeful twist on President Biden's choice for Secretary of the US Department Of Housing And Urban Developement (HUD). His...
Poverty For Profit: REIT Hard At Work In the Homelessness Mines
This post is a tale of two viewpoints. From the bastions of free enterprise? Confirmation that there is literally nothing on earth that cannot, with good conscience, be turned...
Columbus, OH, Teeters, Then Topples: Housing For The Poorest . . . Or Federal Funding?
That there is a 'need' for housing across the American nation is largely self-evident. Housing developers would be heading out of business otherwise, and the largest of them at...
Calling All American Housing ‘Entities:’ Affordable Housing Challenge With Important Payoff
Entites? Whether you belong to a for-profit, non-profit, or a TDHETDHE — Tribally Designated Housing Entity entity, two other corporate 'entities' have an affordable housing challenge for your consideration.
Wells...
Seattle Affordable Housing Fund Lyft-Off?
As affordable housing crises have deepened, cities and regions have looked to create housing trustsSee the category Funding: Revenue Streams for other posts on this issue. to fund new...
Jobs-Housing Linkage Fees — What Are They? How Can They Help Affordable Housing?
New businesses often require new business buildings.
New business buildings become populated with new business workers.
New business workers create a demand for new housing.
The logic that tracks from new business...
San Francisco Report Digs Into Profit And Peril Of Public Banks
These days, when the word 'public' is applied to an institution (e.g. public housing) it is a dogwhistle for 'socialist,' which in turn is a dogwhistle for communist, leninist,...
Boston’s Community Preservation Agenda Includes Affordable Housing
With affordable housing now reaching crisis levels in most North American cities, symbolic housing trust funds with startup but no top up are giving way to housing funds that...
Colorado, Where The Wages Of Sin Is Affordable Housing (And The Munchies)
As North America's housing crisis deepens, there is a growing gap between land and housing costs on one hand, and the amount that a growing number of potential homebuyers...
From England to New York State: Converting Empty Homes Into Affordable Housing
Two kinds of empty homes impact affordable housing.
Some houses are empty because they are second homes, used infrequently, provide wealthy foreigners with an overseas base, or are owned for...
City Councils as Social Housing Developers: Yesterday’s Socialist Evil, Or Tomorrow’s Hope For Affordable Housing?
DIY. Do It Yourself! Wise advice to a UK Borough Council that badly needs affordable housing? The London Borough of Hackney not only thinks so, it is taking aggressive...
Vancouver Finally Uncorks A Major City Bottleneck. Thousands Of Truly Affordable Homes Will Flow.
Vancouver, Canada is a city of world class unaffordable housing. And yet it possesses some $10 billion dollars in real estate holdings which include social housing.
Most big cities own...
Affordable Housing Trust Funds: A ‘Second Home Tax’ Revenue Stream ?
In a recent article by John Healy, the UK Labour Party's Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, he contrasts the tens of thousands of children who sleep in shelters...
Affordable Housing Trust Funds: Two Revenue Streams For Philadelphia?
Philadelphia, like a number of other US cities, is creating an affordable housing trust fund*. How will trust be funded? One proposal has been approved by council. It is...
