CalMatters, April 23, 2024, The U.S. Supreme Court Just Gave California A Major Opportunity To Lower Housing Costs Thanks to a recent blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court ruling on excessive and often arbitrary local fees, reform may be on the way that could help ease California’s worsening housing crisis. But critical unanswered questions from the ruling could […]

WBUR, April 22, 2024, ‘Housing, Not Handcuffs’: Advocates Seek Solutions For Homelessness Beyond Fines And Arrests The National Low Income Housing Coalition crunched data and found that in Grant Pass, Oregon, for every 10 low-income families, there are just two affordable and available apartments. The nonprofit joined an amicus brief in the SCOTUS case saying

Marketplace, April 22, 2024, Why It’s Gotten More Expensive To House People Experience Homelessness Rates have gone up from about 3% to 6% over the past few years, Dare said. And at the same time, nonprofits who own and manage affordable housing properties are also getting whacked by skyrocketing insurance rates.

The New Republic, April 22, 2024, The Real Culprit In Our Housing And Homelessness Crisis: Wall Street Forty-three years into America’s Reaganomics experiment, homelessness has gone from a problem to a crisis. Rarely, though, do you hear that Wall Street—a prime beneficiary of Reagan’s deregulation campaign—is helping cause it. Thirty-two percent seems to be the magic

Axios, April 22, 2024, Philly Metro Remains A Hotbed For House-Flippers Flipped houses made up nearly 8% of home sales in the Philly metro last year, according to a recent report by real estate data firm ATTOM. Why it matters: While house-flipping can improve conditions in some of Philly’s most blighted neighborhoods, some say the practice primarily benefits developers and fuels

PBS, April 19, 2024, New Title IX Rules Add Protections Against Harassment, Assault And LGBTQ+ Discrimination The Biden administration put out new Title IX rules that will increase protections for LGBTQ+ students and change how schools handle cases of campus sexual assault. It reverses several moves made by the Trump administration. William Brangham discussed the

ProPublica, April 23, 2024, The Family Photographs Have Helped Us Investigate How A University Displaced A Black Community The Johnsons are the center of a short documentary ProPublica released last year. The documentary, “Uprooted,” is part of an investigative project reported by Brandi Kellam and Louis Hansen, both of the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at

MSNBC, April 16, 2024, Our Green New Deal For Public Housing Is A Win-Win-Win For America It’s no secret that we as a country are facing enormous challenges. We have a national housing crisis. We’re experiencing the existential threat of climate change. Our health care system is broken and dysfunctional. And while the very rich get

Phys Org, April 15, 2024, New Research Highlights Effects Of Gentrification On Urban Wildlife Populations Across US Cities Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences identifies how gentrified parts of a city have notably more urban wildlife than ungentrified parts of the same city, further limiting marginalized communities’ opportunity to connect with nature.

The New York Times, April 16, 2024, Will A Housing Deal Make New York More Affordable? New York State officials have set the stage to take action on the state’s housing crisis. On Monday, the governor announced a framework for a package of housing laws that would make it easier to build homes and curb

WTOP News, April 15, 2024, How Much More Affordable Is Baltimore’s Housing Market Than DC’s Unlike the D.C. housing market, Baltimore is considerably more affordable. “The median price of a condo in the District is about $465,000. But a condo in Baltimore will run you about $210,000,” said Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist at listing service Bright

Axios Denver, April 14, 2024, Denver’s Housing Market Is Heating Back Up In 2024  The metro area “retains a mix of strengths including low unemployment, few mortgage delinquencies, low rental vacancy rates for investors and a positive ratio of building permits to job growth.”

The New York Times, April 14, 2024, During Milan Design Week, A Creative Solution On Where To Stay In this city of 1.35 million, a particular ritual happens in the weeks leading up to the Salone del Mobile. Ads start popping up on Facebook and Instagram offering private rooms and entire apartments for a few

The Conversation, April 17, 2024, Worried About Housing Shortages And Soaring Prices? Your Community’s Zoning Laws Could Be Part Of The Problem Local governments often try to combat housing costs and create affordable housing by passing legislation that changes current zoning and land-use regulations. But the changes are not without controversy. SciLine interviewed Jessica Trounstine, the centennial