Housing. Rent, killed. If you can’t find a place to rent, blame the government
Foolish crusades against landlords have made housing shortages worse | Leaders
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The Challenge of Affordable Housing in Fast-Growing Urban Centers
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The housing theory of everything - Works in Progress Magazine
Western housing shortages drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates. They may seem lo...
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The end of the housing supply debate (maybe)
The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices. Slowly, the rhetorical battle is being won, as affordable ho...
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How land value tax could fix the housing crisis | World Economic Forum
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...
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A Former Chicago Project Will Become A Museum Dedicated To Public Housing
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...
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Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion
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...
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7 principles for building better cities | Peter Calthorpe | TED
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 ...
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Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth
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...
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The Democrats’ Gentrification Problem - Opinion | The New York Times
Allies on Election Day, the two wings of the Democratic Party are growing further estranged in other aspects of their lives...
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How do we define affordable housing? — Strong Towns
How affordability is defined and measured can affect which solutions are implemented.
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How Many Years of Income Does a Home in Your City Cost? - CityLab
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...
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Piece by Piece, a Factory-Made Answer for a Housing Squeeze - The New York Times
Developers are taking on residential building challenges by extending the concept of prefabricated housing to manufacture entire apartment buildings.
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Mapping the Rise of Renting and the 'Great Housing Reset' - CityLab
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...
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The City That's Built An Affordable Housing Paradise
Public housing is the accommodation of last resort in the U.S. Not so in Austria's capital city.
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Half of Silicon Valley residents want to leave, blame housing
More residents plan to leave the Bay Area every year, according to a new study. Housing is residents' number-one complaint.
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Cost of Living Index 2018 Mid-Year
Rankings: Cost of Living Index, Restaurant Prices Index, Transportation Price Index, Grocery Price Index, Local Purchasing Power Index, ...
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How Airbnb is squeezing Toronto’s housing market – VICE News
In the midst of a mounting rental crisis, the city is still unable to enforce rules that would limit ghost hotels.
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There's New Research Behind the Contention that Airbnb Raises Rents || CityLab
A preliminary analysis of 100 U.S. metro areas suggests Airbnb bears at least some responsibility for soaring housing costs.
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What Airbnb Did to New York City's Housing Market - CityLab
Airbnb’s effects on the city’s housing market have been dramatic, a report suggests. And other cities could soon see the same pattern.
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This Is How People Can Actually Afford to Live in Seattle - VICE
"If I was trying to save money and live where I live, I literally couldn’t go out and do anything.”
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What Amazon’s HQ2 Pullout Means for Housing in Queens - CityLab
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...
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Microsoft Pledges $500 Million for Affordable Housing in Seattle Area - The New York Times
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 ...
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Berlin Builds an Arsenal of Ideas to Stage a Housing Revolution - CityLab
Will Karl Marx Allee Spark Berlin's Housing Revolution? The proposals might seem radical—from banning huge corporate landlords to freezing rents...
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Inside Hong Kong’s cage homes - Vox
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 ...
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Downsized dwellings: Inside Tokyo's tiny living spaces | The Japan Times
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 ...
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Chicago Finds a Way to Improve Public Housing: Libraries - The New York Times
Other cities have combined books and subsidized housing, but the outgoing mayor, Rahm Emanuel, has embraced the concept with three striking new pro...
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Berlin approves 5-year rent freeze in German capital - Reuters 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...
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The Housing Market is Killing the American Dream - Andreessen Horowitz
Skyrocketing home prices are driving people away from opportunity. Now startups are attempting to reverse the trend through software.
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France Airbnb: Paris hails victory over short-stay rents
The case was being watched by other European cities facing a shortage of rental housing.
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NYC Seeks To Rezone SoHo And NoHo For Affordable Housing
The proposal would bring about 3,200 apartments to the area—800 of which would be below-market rate.
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Gimme Shelter - The cost of living in the Bay Area - Harper's Magazine
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...
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