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When California Treasurer Fiona Ma assumed office in 2019, she steered the program toward developers committed to affordable housing and not what she called "churn and burn," buying up LIHTC properties and flipping them onto the market as soon as possible. In California, landlords must notify sta...
and now gets up at 3:30 a.m. to drive 100 miles to her job, dropping off her husband and son at their jobs on the way. She did not move to Apple Valley to invest in a house she could love. She simply found an equally unstable, but slightly more affordable, rental hours from he...
It does not matter whether they house extended family or renters. Accessory dwelling units are inherently affordable because they use existing land, buildings, and infrastructure, resulting in a sort of “invisible density.” MGI’s research in California found that homeowners could add u...
Accenture and CMHC also worked to design and launch a series of competitions for Canada’s Housing Supply Challenge that would award up to $300 million in prizes over five years for new solutions for people looking for an affordable place to live. "We were in a place where we needed to ...
There are several successful examples of 3D printing of houses being used as a strategy for sustainable housing solutions for low-income families. For example, in 2018, a 3D-printed housing project was launched in Mexico to provide affordable housing to families in need [66]. The project used...
I brought up the issue of not enough housing units in connection with a need for more affordable housing, they said the problem was not a lack of units. Rather, more of those units needed to be made available to the people who for a variety of reasons could not easily access them now...
I Introduction With the upcoming release of the 2017-18 Federal Budget just weeks away, the issue of housing affordability has once again taken centre-stage. One of the key objects of the New South Wales Environmental Planning and Assessment Act is the ‘provision and maintenance of affordable ...
“Sustainable” in their terms does not mean affordable, or US-style normal. It really just means where a market might be expected to settle given all the policy-settings and distortions in the system (that underpin land prices well above best alternative use price). One can see material, ...
“non-renewal” so they can renovate the whole property. Each time this occurs it reduces the supply of affordable units, and a great example of this was the recent sale of Bayside Village which got a lot of attention several months ago. Many landlords in Portland end all their leases in...