The Challenge of Affordable Housing in Fast-Growing Urban Centers

The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices. Slowly, the rhetorical battle is being won, as affordable ho... (2017)

How Singapore Solved Housing (2022)

Land value tax incentivizes landowners to improve their land and has been shown to boost housing supply, experts say. Land value tax is a tax on... (2022)

It’s easy to blame the other side. And for many Democrats, it’s obvious that Republicans are thwarting progress toward a more equal society.But wha... (2021)

More than half of the world's population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to urban areas by 2050. The ... (2018)

The space will tell the stories of three families who once lived in the building, and host events to engage visitors in much-needed discussions aro... (2018)

SEATTLE (AP) - Housing prices are soaring here thanks to the tech industry, but the boom comes with a consequence: A surge in homelessness marked b... (2017)

How affordability is defined and measured can affect which solutions are implemented. (2018)

Allies on Election Day, the two wings of the Democratic Party are growing further estranged in other aspects of their lives... (2018)

The rule of thumb is that the cost of your house should equal roughly 2.6 years of income. But in some U.S. cities, home prices are almost 10 times... (2018)

Developers are taking on residential building challenges by extending the concept of prefabricated housing to manufacture entire apartment buildings. (2018)

The rise of renting in the U.S. isn’t just about high housing prices, or preferences for city living, but about the flexibility to compete in today... (2018)

Public housing is the accommodation of last resort in the U.S. Not so in Austria's capital city. (2018)

Ten years after a housing collapse during the Great Recession, home values have rebounded but there are too few homes on the market. Buyers face in... (2018)

More residents plan to leave the Bay Area every year, according to a new study. Housing is residents' number-one complaint. (2018)

Residents are proud of Miami for a bunch of things, being one of the least affordable cities when it comes to housing is not one of them. (2018)

Rankings: Cost of Living Index, Restaurant Prices Index, Transportation Price Index, Grocery Price Index, Local Purchasing Power Index, ... (2018)

In the midst of a mounting rental crisis, the city is still unable to enforce rules that would limit ghost hotels. (2019)

A preliminary analysis of 100 U.S. metro areas suggests Airbnb bears at least some responsibility for soaring housing costs. (2018)

"If I was trying to save money and live where I live, I literally couldn’t go out and do anything.” (2018)

Airbnb’s effects on the city’s housing market have been dramatic, a report suggests. And other cities could soon see the same pattern. (2018)

The arrival of the tech company’s new headquarters was set to shake up the borough’s real estate market, driving up rents and spurring displacement... (2019)

Will Karl Marx Allee Spark Berlin's Housing Revolution? The proposals might seem radical—from banning huge corporate landlords to freezing rents... (2019)

The move is the most ambitious effort yet by a tech company to fund construction for local teachers, firefighters and other middle- and low-income ... (2019)

Vox Published on Aug 15, 2018 When houses are the size of parking spaces. Hong Kong is the most expensive housing market in the world. It has ... (2018)

Twenty-five-year-old Sotaro Ito lives in a 9.46-square-meter apartment with a loft in the capital's retro-hip Koenji district. His apartment looks ... (2019)

Other cities have combined books and subsidized housing, but the outgoing mayor, Rahm Emanuel, has embraced the concept with three striking new pro... (2019)

The Berlin Senate on Tuesday approved a five-year rent freeze designed to tame soaring housing costs in the German capital, bowing to pressure from... (2019)

Skyrocketing home prices are driving people away from opportunity. Now startups are attempting to reverse the trend through software. (2019)

The case was being watched by other European cities facing a shortage of rental housing. (2020)

The proposal would bring about 3,200 apartments to the area—800 of which would be below-market rate. (2020)

The cost of living in the Bay Area "... After living on the East Coast for eight years, I’d recently left New York City to take a job at an inve... (2019)