Any fair-minded person will always try to give someone a chance. Although I clearly understand Republicans are not typically good for public housing, I sat back and let the new President and Secretary of HUD lay out their plans. The first plan was not good. It was clear that their intention was to significantly… Read More Trump’s War on Public Housing
Chili is known as a beautiful South American country that receives interest from tourists from around the world. However; in recent years the provision of social and affordable housing has roared back to the forefront. The history of affordable housing in Chili is actually long and quite interesting. The programs in comparison to other countries in… Read More Chili is Leading the Affordable Housing Movement in South America.
By Emily Casebeer Development costs in western Washington and across the United States continue to increase. According to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the Associated General Contractors of America, the cost of construction is rising (Anderson, 2018). Hard construction makes up a large portion of these costs. 30% of hard construction costs are… Read More Affordable Housing is Unaffordable to Build
The inhabitants of the North of England are often referred to collectively as ‘Northerners’, often as a reference to being ‘other’ to the London-centric ‘Southerners’ of the country. Yet within this group there are significant variances, not least between the North West and North East. Despite the North East’s access to the North Sea for… Read More Convention of the North 2018
The latest assault by the Republican Administration on affordable housing should have every executive team at every PHA across the nation thinking about ways to diversify, streamline and mix up their operations. One of the most interesting ways to protect your PHA might just be to get into the Moving to Work game. If you… Read More Why Every PHA Should Go For Moving To Work (MTW)
A few years ago I told a group of friends in Germany that I had been in more European cities than American. In fact, in 2015 at the age of 34 I had never visited New York City. A few months later, I finally made my way into the Big Apple and was amazed by… Read More China Is Building a City 3X Bigger Than New York: Housing and Urban Policy
In my several years working in affordable housing, I visited maintenance teams all around the USA and Europe. Sometimes I met with monstrous teams of maintenance staff and other times a small group led by a manager. The one common theme is that morale and training make or break the ability of a maintenance team… Read More How the Seattle Housing Authority is Getting SMART with Maintenance Training and Innovation
You do not know expensive rent until you visit San Francisco. $3000 a month for rent for a one bedroom that would go for $450 in Cleveland is common place. They are in a pinch and there is almost zero chance of them getting out of it. Seattle has seen housing prices boom in the… Read More Why Seattle is Better Than San Francisco at Fighting Back in the Affordable Housing Wars-
For those who work in affordable housing or homelessness in the USA, it is very easy to walk into a room and throw out terms like continuum of care, Section 8, project based, tenant based, LIHTC, WBARS or any other smorgasbord of words and phrases. However, for the lay person the world of affordable housing… Read More Affordable Housing and Homelessness in America: Navigating a Confusing World
Linda Dreier | Patrick Kammerzelt | Philipp Ringswirth | Marlene Samhaber | Julia Staufer The Consequences of the Housing Act 2015 revisited Compared to the Netherlands as a whole, social housing is more popular in Amsterdam. This is illustrated in the figure below: While half the housing stock in Amsterdam consisted of social rented housing… Read More The Aftermath of the Dutch Social Housing Act of 2015
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