New York offers a case study of how, in the wake of turbulent postwar urban transformations, neighborhoods became the foundation on which liberals rebuilt their urban policy into the 60s, 70s, and beyond.
Climbing rents have propelled US cost burdens to staggering new heights: in 2022, half of all US renters were cost burdened. Additionally, evictions and homelessness are on the rise, and the need for rental assistance is greater than ever.
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Around 1970, an unprecedented movement emerged across major American cities calling for returning control of urban government to the neighborhood level. Using New York City as a case study, this white paper shows how this new “neighborhood liberalism” reordered the priorities that urban liberals expected of their elected officials and, in so doing, remade American cities to a degree that scholars are only beginning to understand.
However defined, rural areas in the US face significant and unique economic and housing challenges. Yet there is no standard definition of rural used in federal policy and no consensus definition used in housing research.
In the past decade, there has been a great deal of attention paid to and speculation about the residential mobility and location decisions of millennials. Academics and practitioners alike have been trying to determine where millennials are moving and why, including whether they are leading a ‘back to the city’ movement or whether they are moving to the suburbs as previous generations did at their age. Using US Census data, this article examines the geographical population distribution of young adults in the USA in recent decades.