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Amid a Housing Crunch, Religious Groups Unlock Land to Build Homes
New York Times · 24 January 2024
Faith-based organizations are seeing the need and feeling the pull to do something to address the need for affordable housing.
Teachers can’t afford housing, so school districts are building homes
Route Fifty · 4 January 2024
Teachers often do not earn enough to cover housing costs. It’s a challenge exacerbating an already dire teacher shortage in many communities, pushing some school districts to dive right into the housing industry.
New York City Aims to Build Affordable Housing in Wealthier Neighborhoods
New York Times · 26 December 2023
New York City officials on Tuesday will put forward a plan to direct public money toward mixed-income housing projects in wealthier neighborhoods.
How College Football Is Clobbering Housing Markets Across the Country
New York Times · 18 December 2023
Short-term rentals are taking over college towns.
Here’s How Houston Is Fighting Homelessness — and Winning
New York Times · 22 November 2023
The Houston region has slashed homelessness by more than 60 percent since 2011.
The Old New Way to Provide Cheap Housing
New York Times · 9 December 2023
An old idea is coming around again, an approach to providing inexpensive housing that’s gaining ground around the country:converting single-family houses to rooming houses.
Why townhouses are the stars of the Twin Cities area housing market
StarTribune · 2 December 2023
During October, townhouse sales in the metro rose 6.5% compared with last year, compared with a nearly 8% decline in single-family sales, according to the latest data from the Minneapolis Area Realtors.
Striking the right balance to attract affordable housing
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis · 3 October 2023
How the Bloomington MN Opportunity Housing Ordinance both mandates more affordable units and satisfies developers.
Affordable housing should be built across the Twin Cities, but instead we keep fighting
StarTribune · 25 October 2023
Affordable housing is now an economic imperative.
Houses are too expensive. Apartments are too small. Is this a fix?
Washington Post · 20 October 2023
Missing middle housing doesn’t refer to the middle class. Rather, it’s about a certain kind of housing — including townhouses, duplexes and small garden apartments.
Cities try every tool to fix the housing crisis except what works By Catherine Rampell
Washington Post · 20 October 2023
Across the country, demand for affordable housing continues to exceed supply. The solution, then, should be clear: increase supply, by making it easier to build.
St. Paul poised to allow triplexes almost anywhere in the city
MinnPost · 11 October 2023
Duplexes or triplexes would be allowed on almost any lot in St. Paul. Fourplexes would be permitted on any lot that is large enough.
One Way to Help Teacher Salaries Go Further: Free Housing
New York Times · 30 September 2023
A project in Connecticut is an effort to improve the quality of life for early childhood educators and increase their buying power, without raising tuition costs for parents.
Can Affluence and Affordable Housing Coexist in Colorado’s Rockies?
New York Times · 17 August 2023
Inequality has always been rampant within the orbit of popular destinations. But the financial knock-on effects of those ritzy spheres have expanded as the pandemic-induced surge in remote work has supercharged divides.
The Magic of the Granny Flat
New York Times · 6 September 2023
A.D.U.s are seen by experts on aging as a promising tool for addressing a critical shortage of housing for older Americans.