Richard Layman

LA’s Community Safety Partnership has been covered by a variety of media outlets including NPR and The New York Times Magazine. I happened upon it while changing channels via a […]

Quite differently from the United States, social and civic infrastructure elements are integrated into the Vienna social housing development program.

As storms become more violent and damaging, even if not necessarily more frequent, public housing organizations must update their disaster planning and build more resiliency into their organizations.

A few weeks ago, Jubilee Housing, an organization in Adams Morgan that runs a portfolio of seven buildings providing affordable housing to lower income tenants, in properties located exclusively within […]

There are two ways to look at the issue, in terms of what is 1) called “land tenure“ or in this case, whether you own/buy vs. rent or 2) housing […]

Successful housing isn’t merely a function of its form—design is not destiny—it’s also a function the economic and social mix present within the communities.

Unemployment and other economic reversals have led to adult children to come back home to live with their parents, increasing housing size and reducing demand for housing: (see NPR’s “One […]

Over the past couple of weeks John Muller at the Greater Greater Washington blog has written some truly provocative pieces, including “Ward 8 development founders, may lose $4 million in […]

Having lived in D.C. for nearly a quarter century now, I am still flabbergasted to see white people pushing baby carriages on streets in my old neighborhood on H Street […]