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Currently, we are facing a very different scenario in which a backlog of affordable housing, combined with a challenging economic outlook and a climate agenda, have led to the need for a transformation of the built environment into a cleaner and more resource-efficient one, in line with the ...
Probably not. Wooden houses are a promising solution to some of the problems outlined in the previous paragraph, and indeed in large parts of the world wood is the housing material of choice. It’s eco-friendly, not too expensive, and can be applied easily to multiple different types of ...
easily eat half a paycheck.Marina Maalouf, a longtime resident of Hillside Villa, watches as her granddaughter feeds fish in their apartment in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024.Jae C. Hong / APThose affordable housing units were built with the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, or LIHTC, a...
One eastern Connecticut lawmaker said state pressure to create affordable housing where people can more easily commute to and from work will drain local economies, not bolster them. State Rep. Doug Dubitsky, R-Chaplin, was among those in the Planning and Development Committee’...
"You're not rewarded for being a good manager of your assets and keeping track of everything and making sure that you're not losing a single affordable housing unit," she said. Maalouf stood in her apartment courtyard on a recent warm day, chit-chatting and waving to neighbors, a bracele...
Cities need to take an inclusive approach to providing housing for people of all incomes, ages, and demographic groups. People who come to a city to work need to be able to find an affordable place to live there. But the voices of existing homeowners who want to pre...
Affordability goes hand in hand with income. If the people’s incomes do not increase, affordability will always be a problem, regardless of whether there is affordable financing or otherwise. Similarly, the migration to build-and-sell will not help the property market pricing in any way apart...
As POIFM percentages increase (fromgreentoblue, todark gray) beyond the national average, we can easily identify where housing is relatively less affordable. Similar to the HAI, the map highlights the more expensive coastal areas. Charting POIFM data can be extremely useful and complimentary to ...
How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See.” Exclusionary zoning “not only blocks the chance of families to live in neighborhoods rich with opportunity but also stacks the deck against working families by making housing in entire metropolitan areas less affordable...