Today on TAP: The housing affordability crisis goes global
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Posted inBuilding Back America
Infrastructure Summer: A Surprisingly Radical Housing Bill
Practically all the solutions to diminishing the high cost of housing, from nudges to public options, are present in the housing piece of the reconciliation bill.
Posted inHousing
To Ease Affordable Housing Crisis, California Views a Broad New Law
The debate around SB 9 centers on equity, social justice, affordability—and whether it benefits residents or developers.
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L.A.: Home to More Homeless Than Anyplace Else
Today on TAP: The resistance to affordable housing in Los Angeles
Posted inHousing
Public Housing Is Going Private—and Residents Are Fighting Back
A small federal program has become a big federal program with no oversight of how it’s actually working.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Building Back Severed Communities
The Biden administration wants to reconnect historically Black and Latino neighborhoods cut off by highway construction. There’s promise and peril in that.
Posted inBooks
Wrestling With the New Deal
The programs Roosevelt put together may not have met a Platonic ideal of modern progress, but they saved American democracy itself.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Struggling Renters Need More Federal Aid
The Biden-Harris administration did not expand Section 8 vouchers in its recent infrastructure proposals, which could leave millions of renters behind.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Congress Looks to Judicial Overrides to Strengthen Consumer Protections
The under-utilized tool would allow Congress to reverse SCOTUS rulings that insulate lenders and corporations from regulation.