9 Best Articles in 2021
worksinprogress.co
The housing theory of everything
worksinprogress.co
20+ min read · Sep 14th · Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.
HuffPost
Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible For Cities To Fix The Housing Crisis
HuffPost
10 min read · From 2019 · Residents of wealthy neighborhoods are taking extreme measures to block much-needed housing and transportation projects.
Fast Company
Exclusive: Airbnb will start designing houses in 2019
Fast Company
4 min read · From 2018 · Airbnb wants to get into the housing business in a big way.
The New York Times
America’s Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals.
The New York Times
5 min read · From 2019 · The demise of a California housing measure shows how progressives abandon progressive values in their own backyards.
The New York Times
Don’t Blame Tech Bros for the Housing Crisis
The New York Times
4 min read · 2019-12-01 · Rising housing costs predate the tech bubble. And it will take more than Apple and Facebook’s billions to fix it.
NPR's Planet Money
Zoom Towns And The New Housing Market For The 2 Americas
NPR's Planet Money
4 min read · 2020-09-08 · One America is living in a housing boom. The other needs support from the government or family for an affordable place to live.
The New York Times
The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlord
The New York Times
20+ min read · 2020-10-13 · Covid-19 has revealed the depths of the nation’s rental housing crisis — but a group of Minneapolis tenants has shown that a different future is possible.
Los Angeles Times
Who wants to leave California? Young voters can't afford housing, and conservatives feel alienated
Los Angeles Times
3 min read · From 2019 · Many conservatives feel marginalized and want to leave California, and young people are stressed by housing costs, a Berkeley IGS poll for The Times shows.
ProPublica
Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude…
ProPublica
7 min read · From 2017 · After ProPublica revealed last year that Facebook advertisers could target housing ads to whites only, the company announced it had built a system to spot and reject discriminatory ads. We retested…
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worksinprogress.co
The housing theory of everything
worksinprogress.co
20+ min read · Sep 14th · Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.
Guardian politics
Eat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalism
Guardian politics
9 min read · Sep 20th · Nearly eight out of 10 of young Britons blame capitalism for the housing crisis and two-thirds want to live under a socialist economic system. How did that happen?
The New York Times
Opinion | We Need to Build Our Way Out of This Mess
The New York Times
6 min read · Aug 11th · We must sweep away the regulations that keep us from building housing and infrastructure.
TIME
I Lived in My Car and Now I’m in Congress. We Need to Solve America’s Housing Crisis.
TIME
3 min read · Jul 30th
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medium.com
A guy just transcribed 30 years of for-rent ads. Here’s what it taught us about housing prices…
medium.com
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The New York Times
‘We Need Each Other’: Seniors Are Drawn to New Housing Arrangements
The New York Times
6 min read · From 2019 · Older Americans are exploring housing alternatives, including villages and home-sharing.
The Economist
The horrible housing blunder - Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake
The Economist
4 min read · 2020-01-17 · Jan 16th 2020ECONOMIES CAN suffer both sudden crashes and chronic diseases. Housing markets in the rich world have caused both types of problem. A trillion dollars of dud mortgages blew up the…
Visual Capitalist
Mapped: The Countries With the Highest Housing Bubble Risks
Visual Capitalist
9 min read · From 2019 · Which real estate markets have the highest risk of seeing a correction? These maps highlight housing bubble risks using data from four key indicators.
The New York Times
The Future of Offices When Workers Have a Choice
The New York Times
5 min read · Jan 4th · Some work spaces in central employment districts may become housing, and some housing in residential areas may become work spaces.
The Guardian
A successful climate plan must also tackle the housing crisis
The Guardian
5 min read · 2019-10-01 · The Democratic nominee should be able to answer the question: what will your climate plan do for the housing crisis?
Bloomberg CityLab
Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment
Bloomberg CityLab
6 min read · From 2018 · The two pillars of American housing policy are fundamentally at odds.
The New York Times
The Californians Are Coming. So Is Their Housing Crisis.
The New York Times
6 min read · Feb 12th · Is it possible to import growth without also importing housing problems? “I can’t point to a city that has done it right.”
MIT Technology Review
The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty
MIT Technology Review
9 min read · 2020-12-04 · A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor from housing, jobs, and basic services.
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