Why Are Housing Starts Falling Short Of Public Targets?
Continuing with the theme of cross-subsidy funding for affordable housing, here is another article from the United Kingdom. This one is about greenfield development, which refers to building new...
YIMBY Triumphs! But Will More YIMBY Housing Add Up To More AFFORDABLE Housing?
The YIMBY breakthrough that everybody is buzzed about has delivered results to the City of Aukland, New Zealand. Unlike other major New Zealand cities, Aukland bit the YIMBY bullet...
Housing And Health – The Problem Of Investigating A Cause-Effect Relationship
Do housing conditions cause health conditions? In individual cases, the answer has proven (after many meetings with coroners) to be yes. There is Awaab Ishak, who died from exposure...
Rental Deserts – What Are They And Do They Matter?
Researchers at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies have picked up the idea of food desertsFood deserts are areas that lack access to affordable and nutritious food. Read more...
Is There Such A Thing As Mindless Urban Development? Apparently
We were hiking industriously along a country dirt road a good hour's drive outside of 5th most populated urban conglomerate in North America (or 4th or 6th, no matter)....
Garden Cities/Suburbs At The End Of A Rainbow? Alas, No ‘There’ There.
Once upon a time, the utopian dream of a 'garden city' was held up as the pinnacle of human community. Homes with pocket-sized personal green space were idealized as...
Myth-Busting: What Makes You Think Tiny Homes Will Be Affordable?
North America is a land of large housing lots. Not surprising therefore that their potential for doubling density causes affordable housing activists to pump their fists in the air...
Gentrification Whack-A-Mole: Now It’s Popped Up In The Suburbs!
First there were the middle class inner city suburbs, which slowly degenerated into near-downtown depressed areas as wealthier folks moved to one acre lots in the further suburbs, until...
Affordable Housing Wars: True ‘YIMBY’ Can Outflank NIMBY
By all means, let's hear it for true YIMBY. Hold that thought. We'll be coming back to it.
True YIMBY? Does that mean there's a fake YIMBY? Of course there...
Gentrification Has Killed Shared Housing. Affordability May Bring it Back, Complete With Benefits
In Toronto, Ontario, shared housing hangs on stubbornly, like weeds in a well-kept lawn. Rooming houses, boarding houses, single room occupancy hotels and other forms of shared accommodation are...
Aging Empty Nester? Size-Small Family In A Size-Large House? You May Have To Get Used To It!
A growing dilemma in Cincinnati: older residents who have always planned to sell up their unnecessarily large and unmanageable houses in order to downsize into a retirement home. However,...
In America, Poverty Is Migrating. Supporters And Advocates Are Getting Left Behind.
Urban renewal is evicting the poor from North American inner cities. More and more affordable inner city housing has been torn down to make way for new and unaffordable...
