9 Best Articles in 2022
Works in Progress
The housing theory of everything
Works in Progress
20+ min read · 2021-09-14 · 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.
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.
Guardian politics
Eat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalism
Guardian politics
9 min read · 2021-09-20 · 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?
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 Future of Offices When Workers Have a Choice
The New York Times
5 min read · 2021-01-04 · Some work spaces in central employment districts may become housing, and some housing in residential areas may become work spaces.
The Economist
The horrible housing blunder - Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake
The Economist
4 min read · From 2020 · 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…
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.
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.
Vox
America’s racist housing rules really can be fixed
Vox
~15 min read · 2021-02-17 · More than 50 years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, it’s time to sue the suburbs.
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The New York Times
Opinion | Mayor Adams, Let’s Build a Bigger Manhattan
The New York Times
4 min read · Jan 14th · “New Mannahatta” would help the city’s housing crisis and protect against the impact of climate change.
grist
In Michigan, a new housing project shows that sustainable development isn't only for the rich
grist
4 min read · Jan 3rd · Urban planners see it as a building model in a climate-conscious world.
news.lee.net
How the housing market changed in 2021
news.lee.net
10 min read · Jan 15th · Real estate platform ZeroDown has compiled a list of 10 ways the housing market changed in 2021.
NPR
Why your local library might be hiring a social worker
NPR
6 min read · Jan 3rd · Libraries in some cities are investing in staff who can help patrons with complex issues like housing insecurity, finding mental health and more.
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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.
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…
The New York Times
Don’t Blame Tech Bros for the Housing Crisis
The New York Times
4 min read · From 2019 · 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
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The New York Times
~13 min read · 2020-02-13 · When California’s housing crisis slammed into a wealthy suburb, one public servant became a convert to a radically simple doctrine.
The New Yorker
What Happens When Investment Firms Acquire Trailer Parks
The New Yorker
10 min read · 2021-03-08 · The financial industry’s pursuit of profits from mobile-home communities is undermining one of the country’s largest sources of affordable housing.
Fast Company
Cheap, green, and beautiful: The future of housing, according to this year’s Solar Decathlon winners
Fast Company
5 min read · 2021-04-20 · The winners of the 2021 Solar Decathlon Build Challenge show how to build energy-efficient housing in extreme climates—the kinds of conditions climate change will only make more prevalent.
The New York Times
Opinion | Mayor Adams, Let’s Build a Bigger Manhattan
The New York Times
4 min read · Jan 14th · “New Mannahatta” would help the city’s housing crisis and protect against the impact of climate change.
The New York Times
The Californians Are Coming. So Is Their Housing Crisis.
The New York Times
6 min read · 2021-02-12 · Is it possible to import growth without also importing housing problems? “I can’t point to a city that has done it right.”
The Wall Street Journal
Struggling Rental Market Could Usher in Next American Housing Crisis
The Wall Street Journal
4 min read · 2020-10-27 · A housing crisis that is emerging in the U.S. threatens to send millions of renters into eviction and leave landlords short billions of dollars.
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