May 13, 2016
Affirmatively Furthering Neighborhood Choice
Jim Kelly has posted Affirmatively Furthering Neighborhood Choice: Vacant Property Strategies and Fair Housing to SSRN (forthcoming in the University of Memphis Law Review). He writes, With the Supreme Court’s Inclusive Cmtys. Project decision in June 2015 and the Obama Administration’s adoption, … Continue reading
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May 10, 2016
Gentrification in NYC
The NYU Furman Center released its annual State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods (2015). This year’s report focused on gentrification: “Gentrification” has become the accepted term to describe neighborhoods that start off predominantly occupied by households of relatively low … Continue reading
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April 26, 2016
Preserving Affordable Housing
Alexander von Hoffman of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies has posted an interesting working paper, To Preserve Affordable Housing in the United States. It opens, Most Americans who have any idea about low-income housing policy in the United … Continue reading
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April 20, 2016
The Land Use Report of the President
The Economic Report of the President contains an important analysis of local land use policies in a section titled “Constraints on Housing Supply:” Supply constraints provide a structural challenge in the housing market, particularly in high-mobility, economically vibrant cities. When housing supply … Continue reading
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March 3, 2016
The State of Moderate-Income Housing
The Center for Housing Policy’s most recent issue of Housing Landscape gives its 2016 Annual Look at The Housing Affordability Challenges of America’s Working Households (my discussion of the Center’s 2015 report is here). it opens, Millions of working households face big challenges in … Continue reading
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February 26, 2016
Vacant Land in NYC
NYC Comptroller Stringer has released an Audit Report on the Development of City-Owned Vacant Lots by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Stringer has taken some cheap shots on Mayor DeBlasio’s housing plans before (here for … Continue reading
February 26, 2016 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
February 9, 2016
Bold New Housing Plan?
Enterprise Community Partners has released An Investment in Opportunity: A Bold New Vision for Housing Policy in the U.S. I thought it would be useful to highlight its specific proposals to make rental housing affordable for low-income households: I. ENSURE BROAD ACCESS TO … Continue reading
February 9, 2016 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
