How about converting our depopulated downtowns into affordable housing instead?
Housing
Posted inHousing
Want Affordable Housing? Strengthen Regional Governments.
Most Americans live in metropolitan areas, and it takes a metropolitan regional government to coordinate the growth in housing, transit, and employment that makes the region livable.
Posted inHousing
Missed Measurement: We Have No Idea How Many Evictions There Are
There is no federal data on evictions, keeping policymakers blind during a moment of uncertainty.
Posted inHousing
America’s Hidden Fire Kindling
Federally subsidized housing complexes, many of them owned by for-profit investors, fail to enforce basic safety standards.
Posted inHousing
Washington Moves to Clear Unhoused People From Encampments
Social welfare advocates say these evictions are counterproductive and cruel.
Posted inHousing
Polite, Legal, and Unacknowledged: The Devastating Biases of Well-Heeled Suburbia
Build Back Better highlights how upper-income whites engage in discrimination every bit as harmful as that ascribed to working-class whites. It also aims to stop it.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Build Back Better’s Housing Investments at Risk
The housing part of the reconciliation bill is transformative. All factions of the party support it. Will it survive the cut-down?
Posted inTAP
This Inflation Is Different—Beware Quack Diagnoses
Today on TAP: It’s not driven by excessive demand
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
New Flood Insurance Rates Still Subsidize Coastal Development
FEMA says new rates are more fair. But homeowners can still skip buying insurance, premiums may still not price in severe climate risk, and the program remains insolvent.
Posted inTAP
Tenants of the World, Unite!
Today on TAP: The housing affordability crisis goes global