9 Best Articles in 2020
HuffPost
Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible For Cities To Fix The Housing Crisis
HuffPost
9 min read · 29 saves · 2019-07-06 · Michael Hobbes · 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
3 min read · 129 saves · 2018-11-29 · 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
4 min read · 82 saves · 2019-05-22 · Farhad Manjoo · 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 · 29 saves · 2019-11-30 · 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 · 66 saves · Sep 8th · Greg Rosalsky · One America is living in a housing boom. The other needs support from the government or family for an affordable place to live.
Los Angeles Times
Who wants to leave California? Young voters can't afford housing, and conservatives feel alienated
Los Angeles Times
3 min read · 17 saves · 2019-09-27 · Many conservatives feel marginalized and want to leave California, and young people are stressed by housing costs, a Berkeley IGS poll for The Times…
ProPublica
Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude…
ProPublica
7 min read · 45 saves · 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…
The New York Times
‘We Need Each Other’: Seniors Are Drawn to New Housing Arrangements
The New York Times
5 min read · 12 saves · 2019-09-27 · Paula Span · Older Americans are exploring housing alternatives, including villages and home-sharing.
medium.com
A guy just transcribed 30 years of for-rent ads. Here’s what it taught us about housing prices…
medium.com
9 min read · 46 saves · From 2016 · I don’t know anything about Eric Fischer except that he’s a freaking hero.
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NPR's Planet Money
Zoom Towns And The New Housing Market For The 2 Americas
NPR's Planet Money
4 min read · 66 saves · Sep 8th · Greg Rosalsky · 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 · 42 saves · Oct 13th · Matthew Desmond · 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…
philadelphiahousingaction.info
RELEASE: Philadelphia Housing Action claims victory after 6 month direct action campaign forces City to relinquish 50…
philadelphiahousingaction.info
2 min read · 38 saves · Sep 27th · FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 26, 2020CONTACTWiley Cunningham (215) 626 8818Jenifer Bennetch (215) 554 1386philadelphiahousingaction@protonmail.comphiladelphiahousingaction.infoPhiladelphia Housing…
In Education
The New York Times
College Is Everywhere Now
The New York Times
9 min read · 106 saves · Aug 28th · Taylor Lorenz · Yale students in Barbados. Michigan students in Brooklyn. Berkeley students in Las Vegas? Off-campus housing is way off-campus now.
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The New York Times
The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlord
The New York Times
20+ min read · 42 saves · Oct 13th · Matthew Desmond · 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…
The Guardian
A successful climate plan must also tackle the housing crisis
The Guardian
5 min read · 13 saves · 2019-10-01 · The Democratic nominee should be able to answer the question: what will your climate plan do for the housing crisis?
Visual Capitalist
Mapped: The Countries With the Highest Housing Bubble Risks
Visual Capitalist
9 min read · 15 saves · 2019-07-19 · Jeff Desjardins · Which real estate markets have the highest risk of seeing a correction? These maps highlight housing bubble risks using data from four key indicators.
Bloomberg CityLab
Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment
Bloomberg CityLab
6 min read · 32 saves · 2018-11-19 · The two pillars of American housing policy are fundamentally at odds.
apple.com
Apple commits $2.5 billion to combat housing crisis in California
apple.com
2 min read · 12 saves · 2019-11-04 · Apple today announced a comprehensive $2.5 billion plan to help address the housing availability and affordability crisis in California.
Bloomberg CityLab
How Housing Wealth Transferred From Families to Corporations
Bloomberg CityLab
5 min read · 11 saves · 2019-10-04 · The Great Housing Reset has led to more than one-third of single-family homes being rentals, with a significant share controlled by large corporations.
Vox
America has a housing segregation problem. Seattle may just have the solution.
Vox
~13 min read · 31 saves · 2019-08-04 · Dylan Matthews · Economist Raj Chetty found the program has "the largest effect I’ve ever seen in a social science intervention."
blog.google
$1 billion for 20,000 Bay Area homes
blog.google
2 min read · 40 saves · 2019-06-18 · As Google grows throughout the Bay Area, we’re making our biggest investment yet to help with the housing crisis.
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Fast Company
Google’s new housing development will get suburban workers out of their cars
Fast Company
3 min read · 13 saves · 2019-09-23 · Adele Peters · The company is trying to fight the housing crisis near its office by building a walkable neighborhood instead of typical suburban sprawl.
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