The Unbreakable Contradiction in Our View of Housing
…policy to keep home prices down”; the second says, “Use housing policy to keep home prices up.” It’s no wonder, then, that housing policy is a bit confused. The same…
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Redevelopment and Housing
…“Brown’s plan to eliminate redevelopment agencies could kill affordable housing program” by Tracy Seipel at MercuryNews.com Also Related: “REGION: Axing redevelopment would stifle low-income housing” by David Garrick at NCTimes.com…
Should Transit-Oriented Housing be Limited to the Carless?
In addition to the NIMBYs and the YIMBYs, we now have the PHIMBYs: Public Housing in My Back Yard. This new acronym represents those who believe that public-subsidized housing should…
‘Smart Growth’ or Housing Opportunity
…high density housing. Yes, it is mistaken if it is trying to get suburbanites out of their single family houses and into apartments. It is not so much a question…
Suggestions for the Democratic Party, Part 2: The Housing Issue
…here at Blue Kennel. I refer to, of course, the issue of housing. Jed Kolko and Derek Thompson discovered that the housing crunch was most severe in metropolitan divisions that…
Two Dilemmas Urbanists and Housing Advocates have to Face
…those who achieve it. You can’t have it both ways. What makes home ownership a ‘wealth builder’ is a relative scarcity of land for housing. Housing is expensive now because…
If We Treated Food the Way We Treated Housing
…– well, take a guess. They can’t afford the housing in the community. Think not of ‘those people’ when you are considering the housing policy of the community; think of…
The Tastes of our Southern Neighbors, and our Housing Issues
…on Mexican culture in recent times that I know of is Mañana Forever? by Jorge Castañeda. In the last part of his first chapter, he has a subsection called “Housing…
Housing
The Housing Crisis What Would Howard* Do? Conference The What Would Howard Do? conference commemorated the 50th anniversary of my father’s death. I decided to sponsor it mostly to honor…
Some Points on Housing
…and recommending instead a program in Wisconsin called WHEDA, which stands for Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, which helps marginal homebuyers [those with incomes under $80,000 per year] buy…