In the vocabulary of urban affairs, the term “slum” is among the most powerful.
“No word in the language,” wrote Charles Abrams in the 1960s, “has called up more horrible…
Lately there’s been a lot of excitement in US housing policy circles about the idea of social housing. Inspired by what they have seen in Europe, advocates of social housing…
No one did more to build the non-profit housing sector in the United States than Bob Whittlesey, who died on February 27 of this year at the age of 101.
Contrary to the…
Across the United States, many institutions, private businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and citizens have come together to create and govern public and…
Single-family zoning has a target on its back. Long condemned for creating suburban sprawl and excluding Black Americans, immigrants, and low-income people from residential…
The federal government’s controversial fair housing rule is back in play, which makes the release of a new book about it timely indeed.
In 2015, during the Obama…
Providing between $25,000 and $100,000 per unit in assistance for shared equity homeownership opportunities would allow approximately 6.6 million additional households to…
Observing how creative practitioners have addressed the knotty problems involved in providing good homes to people who otherwise could not afford them is one of the great…
Commonly-used measures of the homeownership rate generally describe aggregate trends consistent with the image of young households that start out as renters, become…
Children experience many changes in their households while they are growing up. But while we often think about divorcing and remarrying parents as common changes in household…
