Luxury real estate brokers want Los Angeles to cancel a mansion tax for damaged homes so they can feed off them.
Housing and Transportation
Read about affordable housing; access to transportation; roadways; bridges and tunnels; crumbling infrastructure; railroads; Amtrak; trucking; interstate highway system; science and technology; land use;
Posted inTransportation
Tesla Is Cooked
Unless Donald Trump gives the company lots of government subsidies, that is.
Posted inHousing
Solving the Housing Crisis Will Take More Than YIMBY
It’s a good start, but it won’t produce true affordability.
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Tackling the Housing Crisis
A symposium on how housing unaffordability happened and what can be done
Posted inHousing
Make It Legal to Build
The Yes In My Backyard, or YIMBY, movement believes that solving the housing shortage entails removing impediments to adding supply.
Posted inHousing
Why We Need a Homes Guarantee
Our housing crisis is not going away, and it demands a comprehensive solution with one goal in mind: safe and affordable homes for all.
Posted inHousing
The Housing Industry Never Recovered From the Great Recession
A decade of depression in construction led to a concentrated, sclerotic industry.
Posted inHousing
Look for the Tenant Union
Those caught in the crossfire of corporate landlords and financial engineering need a regulatory agenda to protect them.
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FIMBY: Finance in My Backyard
Local housing agencies can use revolving funds to fill financing gaps for homes that are cleared to be built but don’t have the capital investment to get it done.
Posted inTransportation
Un-Pausing New York’s Congestion Pricing Pause
Whether the city has a functioning public transportation system may rest with Washington, or better yet, New Jersey.
