Rising rents have been particularly pronounced in the workforce housing segment, squeezing tenants across the country. According to a new report, most regions nationwide experienced workforce housing rent increases of 20 percent or more from 2021 to 2025.
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The Lost Dream of Obam-a-Lago
Long before the September 30 ICE raid, Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood had been ravaged by a series of sprawling apartment building pump-and-dump schemes, aided and abetted by industrial-scale mortgage fraud, old-fashioned government inaction, and a smattering of Venezuelan gangsters.
Posted inPolitics
Colorado’s Governor Greenlights Price-Fixing Algorithms
Democrats in Colorado’s legislature unanimously passed a bill reining in price-fixing software like RealPage. Once again, Gov. Jared Polis broke away from his party and vetoed it.
Posted inHousing
Trump Administration Cuts Funding for Fair Housing Groups, Weakening Discrimination Protections
The termination of grants to dozens of fair housing organizations threatens enforcement of the Fair Housing Act.
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Child Death Sparks Reconsideration of Private Equity–Owned Affordable Housing
A two-year-old died in Section 8 housing in Pittsburgh, in one of over 130 federally subsidized properties owned by private equity firm Vitus.
Posted inEconomic Policy
When the Government Actually Governs
The Biden administration’s antitrust agencies are hitting the tape with new rules and enforcement actions.
Posted inHousing
Solving the Housing Crisis Will Take More Than YIMBY
It’s a good start, but it won’t produce true affordability.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The End and Beginning of the Lina Khan Era
The FTC chair lost her job on the same day she added another legal victory. The neo-Brandeisian efforts to convince judges to revive antitrust could have staying power.
Posted inHousing
Tackling the Housing Crisis
A symposium on how housing unaffordability happened and what can be done