Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a median household income as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index.
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Tax reform has potential to solve the housing affordability crisis
“Our tax system still siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power and reduces the incentive...
Solving the affordable housing crisis
MacDonald pointed to the increasing cost of complying with regulations, building material price inflation and shortages of both labor and building sites as factors...
The unexpected solution to America’s affordable housing crunch: the urban movement
The ones currently doing the kicking are the YIMBYs, a loosely allied collection of pro-development housing advocates whose name plays on the acronym NIMBY...
Solving the affordable housing puzzle
But inside Brooklyn’s 461 Dean—the world’s tallest modular building—half of the 363 rental apartments fall well below market rate. One-bedrooms, which range from 578-...
Financing first
Housing affordability is an issue for a growing number of the nation’s 111.1 million renters, which include people living in housing from apartments to...
Affordable housing’s not so affordable solution
Looking for an easy solution to this complicated problem, hundreds of cities and counties have adopted so-called “inclusionary zoning” ordinances, demanding that developers build...
What happens when affordable housing doesn’t pencil
But the amount of affordable housing that developers can build is beginning to shrink as the cost of development grows. “The number of units of...
New York’s self-inflicted housing crunch
But there’s also the anxiety from New York’s crazy-quilt pattern of land use regulation, which a New York Times editorial recently labeled “High-Rise Anxiety.”...
When will affordable housing advocates push for more supply and fewer rules?
The lack of market rate supply contributes to high prices that puts market rate housing out of reach, and as long as that problem...
The silent crisis
Terwilliger moderated a panel of distinguished experts discussing how housing needs to become a higher national policy priority, why national policy must change to...
Affordable housing crunch moves inland to modest-sized U.S. cities
While soaring real estate prices and ludicrous rents have ceased being news in places called Pacific Heights or Park Slope, the dual tsunamis of...
A perfect affordable housing storm
Beyond the frightening amount of money the average renter pays the first of every month, the truly scary part of this situation is that...
Paradise lost
San Francisco has topped the list of every national rental report since Zumper began publishing them in August 2014, and was named the most...
Multihousing’s affordability crisis
High housing costs ultimately drain our cities and communities of the brains and the brawn needed to thrive economically. Because this risk is real...
The story of rising rents
“Across most markets, renters are paying a higher percentage of their incomes in rent,” says Luis Mejia, director of U.S. multifamily research with the...
