9 Best Articles in 2021
HuffPost
Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible For Cities To Fix The Housing Crisis
HuffPost
9 min read · 31 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 · 130 saves · 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
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.
The New York Times
The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlord
The New York Times
20+ min read · 44 saves · 2020-10-13 · 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 is possible.
NPR's Planet Money
Zoom Towns And The New Housing Market For The 2 Americas
NPR's Planet Money
4 min read · 67 saves · 2020-09-08 · 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 shows.
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.
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 spot and reject discriminatory ads. We retested…
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The New York Times
The Future of Offices When Workers Have a Choice
The New York Times
5 min read · 188 saves · Jan 4th · Dror Poleg · Some work spaces in central employment districts may become housing, and some housing in residential areas may become work spaces.
In Technology
MIT Technology Review
The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty
MIT Technology Review
9 min read · 445 saves · 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.
In Economy
Harvard Business Review
Are We On the Verge of Another Financial Crisis?
Harvard Business Review
9 min read · 78 saves · 2020-12-18 · How climate change could spark a collapse in housing prices much like the one that brought down the financial system in 2008.
The New Yorker
Using the Homeless to Guard Empty Houses
The New Yorker
10 min read · 38 saves · 2020-12-07 · Francesca Mari · As the pandemic makes an already terrible housing crisis worse, a new version of house-sitting signals a broken real-estate market.
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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
9 min read · 46 saves · From 2016 · I don’t know anything about Eric Fischer except that he’s a freaking hero.
In Economy
The New York Times
The Future of Offices When Workers Have a Choice
The New York Times
5 min read · 188 saves · Jan 4th · Dror Poleg · 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 · 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 · 17 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.
In Technology
MIT Technology Review
The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty
MIT Technology Review
9 min read · 445 saves · 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.
Bloomberg CityLab
Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment
Bloomberg CityLab
6 min read · 32 saves · From 2018 · 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.
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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