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AP, March 21, 2024, Micro-Apartments Are Back After Nearly A Century, As Need For Affordable Housing Soars Boarding houses that rented single rooms to low-income, blue-collar or temporary workers were prevalent across the U.S. in the early 1900s. Known as single room occupancy units, or SROs, they started to disappear in the postwar years amid

The Conversation, March 19, 2024, How Ghost Streams And Redlining’s Legacy Lead To Unfairness In Flood Risk, In Detroit And Elsewhere As the planet warms, severe rains – and the flooding that follows – may become even more intense and frequent in cities like Detroit that have aging and undersized stormwater infrastructure. These extreme events

Phys.org, March 20, 2024, ‘Modern-Day Redlining’: Research Investigates Wall Street-Backed Rental Market Carol Camp Yeakey, the Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts & Sciences and founding director of Washington University in St. Louis’s Center on Urban Research & Public Policy, is leading a two-year national study to examine the surge of corporate investors in the

The New York Times, March 20, 2024, The Bombshell Case That Will Transform The Housing Market For decades, an invisible hand has been guiding and controlling the American real estate industry, dictating how much buyers and sellers pay to their agents and how homes are sold. A few days ago, after a stunning legal settlement,

Politico, March 30, 2024, DOJ Escalates Price-Fixing Probe On Housing Market The Justice Department is expanding its probe of the rental housing market, opening a criminal investigation of a top developer of property pricing software and some of its customers, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. The DOJ is looking into the

ARL Now, March 19, 2024, A New Era Of Housing Questions For Arlington One Year After Passing Missing Middle A year after the passage of Arlington’s “Missing Middle” ordinance last March, the jury is out on the long-term implications of the zoning change. Challenges include a substantial slowdown in Missing Middle applications and continued opposition

WHYY, March 19, 2024, Rise In Residential Development In Germantown Sparks Optimism–And Caution Over the last few years, Germantown has experienced a wave of residential construction that’s seen at least a dozen developers enter the market, a multimillion-dollar shift that’s become a hot topic of conversation among residents. While some think the influx has the

The Washington Post, March 7, 2024, Biden To Propose New $5,000 Tax Credit For First-Time Home Buyers President Biden will propose a set of new housing initiatives in Thursday’s State of the Union address, including tax credits to offset high mortgage rates for first-time home buyers and encourage people to move out of starter homes and

NPQ, February 29, 2024, The Economic Case Against Work Requirements Work requirements for public benefits programs have roots in the long history of slavery and its afterlife in the United States. But they are not just racist—they are ineffective and bad for the economy. Modern work requirements imposed through welfare reform in 1996 have now

Barron’s, March 6, 2024, Waters Says Affordable Housing Is Critical To Fighting Inflation In her opening remarks in Wednesday’s hearing, Waters said that while she’s pleased about the progress the Fed has made in bringing down inflation, the U.S. is “not out of the woods yet.” She specifically called out housing as an area of

CBS News, December 17, 2020, 50 Years Of Tax Cuts For The Rich Failed To Trickle Down, Economic Study Says But the analysis discovered one major change: The incomes of the rich grew much faster in countries where tax rates were lowered. Instead of trickling down to the middle class, tax cuts for the rich

The Washington Post, March 5, 2024, U.S. Caps Credit Card Late Charges In New Biden Crackdown On Junk Fees Under the new regulations, credit card issuers, including Bank of America, Capital One, Citibank and JPMorgan Chase, cannot charge more than $8 for a late payment unless they can explicitly point to data showing they must

Federal Reserve Bank Of Minneapolis, February 21, 2024, Native Entrepreneurs Face Credit-Access Challenges In 2022, the most recent year for which SBCS data are available, Native representation in the survey data was the highest it has ever been, at 405 out of 13,910 respondents, or nearly 3 percent of the total sample. For the first

Public News Service, February 26, 2024, Health Center Development Offers Innovative Model For Affordable Housing A new development in Denver’s Elyria-Swansea neighborhood that combines affordable housing, a healthcare provider, a pharmacy – and next, a grocery store offering fresh produce – is proving how collaborative partnerships with real community input can meet the needs of historically