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Fixing the Housing Crisis, Beyond Supply - nextcity.org
2024年11月20日 · Next City Event: Fixing the Housing Crisis, Beyond Supply Engage with speakers who will discuss methods for increasing affordability and making units and homes permanently affordable, such as establishing community land trusts, expanding housing assistance, and more!
These Social Housing Projects Around the World Can Inspire …
2024年10月7日 · With the nation in the midst of a seemingly intractable affordable housing crisis, new possibilities are becoming visible. Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed a number of policies to make homes more affordable, including the potential to construct over three million new housing units in her first term should she be elected.
Meet the Bill To Ban Hedge Funds From Owning Single-Family …
2024年3月28日 · While the overall ownership of single-family homes by private equity remains relatively small, a 2022 report by MetLife estimated that by 2030, 7.6 million single-family rental homes in the United States—more than 40 percent—could be owned by corporate investors. According to a November report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) the …
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Urban Crime Is Falling, Despite What Fear-Mongering Politicians …
2024年10月9日 · Mayor Wu’s Community Safety Team engaged with residents and stakeholders like churches and hospitals to develop strategies to “address the root causes of violence through a public health lens” for a new approach emphasizing prevention, intervention, and reinvestment.The city focused on addressing the root causes of crime over simply doling out …
There Are 10,000 Cities on Planet Earth. Half Didn’t Exist 40 Years …
2020年2月12日 · “Towns are misunderstood orphans that were lost in translation,” says Dijkstra. While “town” versus “city” is a clearly understood distinction in English, he says that Dutch, French, German, and Spanish all lack an equivalent term.
History of Gentrification in America: A Timeline | Next City
1993. Under the influence of real estate industry lobbyists, New York State legislators pass into law several loopholes, including one that allows NYC landlords to flip rent-stabilized apartments into market-rate apartments by gradually increasing the rent each time a tenant moves out until the rent hits a certain threshold, upon which the apartment loses rent-stabilized status.
Modular Construction Is on the Rise. Can It Build High-Quality ...
2024年8月15日 · Lowering the cost to build. Across the country, the shortage of affordable homes grew to 7.3 million last year, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.Over half of all renters pay more than 30% of their incomes to rent, according to Harvard’s 2024 report on the state of U.S. housing.. Meanwhile, costs to build housing have increased nearly 29% since …
Sponge Cities Are the Future of Urban Flood Mitigation - Next City
2024年5月14日 · Events like these have sparked interest in so-called sponge cities – a comprehensive approach to urban flood mitigation that uses innovative landscape and drainage designs to reduce and slow down runoff, while allowing certain parts of the city to flood safely during extreme weather.