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Should Everyone Have a Decent Home? Obscure HUD Document Suggests No
A call for research proposals on reducing housing demand suggests a radical and troubling shift that may be coming in housing policy.
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Green Shoots of Innovation
When the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) passed earlier this year, I wrote that it had the potential to be the greatest poverty-fighting tool we’ve seen in […]
Can the Silk City Forge its Next Industrial Revolution?
New Jersey’s Paterson is among the nation’s oldest planned industrial cities, but it has fallen on hard times since the once-booming silk industry there declined in the latter half of the 20th century. Much of the industry in this city of 150,000 has since left, but now a geological attraction once envisioned by Alexander Hamilton as something that could be harnessed for industrial might, is fully protected, and could be channeled, this time, for its community-building potential.
The Green House?
We couldn’t resist the pun when news broke in March that Van Jones will serve as Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for the White House Council on […]
Just a Regular Maverick (Realtor)
Jim Klinge, the Realtor-cum-blogger who, first expressing pre-burst housing bubble incredulity, has since lit up the Web with an honesty rarely seen from a real estate agent. It’s not just […]
Gardening? It’s Gone to the Goats
The Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles is cutting its brush- and weed-clearing budget in half—by employing 100 goats.
Building Hope and Homes
Taller San Jose, a Santa Ana, California-based job-training program, broke ground in September on an affordable-housing project for first-time homebuyers. The planned development — three houses in Santa Ana’s historic […]
Getting a Fix on a Shape-Shifting Bailout
The oversight panel headed by Elizabeth Warren, which monitors the federal bailout for the ailing economy, is due to submit a report to Congress by Jan. 20.
A Housing Renaissance?
A group of former FEMA trailer residents has formed an organization to raise money to house Louisianans displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The nonprofit — Katrina Rebirth Promise Land — is […]
$3.9 Billion in Federal Aid. Now What?
Community advocates are concerned about how wisely the emergency neighborhood stabilization fund will be used.
Blocking the ‘Bayonne Box’
Newark, N.J., is one of a handful of Garden State cities that is enjoying something of a housing renaissance, but city government and some residents don’t like the look of […]
School’s Out (of Money)
Public schools are taking hits as districts funded by local property taxes experience higher levels of foreclosures, says a report.
Housing Perpetuates Racial Segregation, Group Says
A Dallas-based civil-rights group is charging the largest affordable-housing rental program in Texas with perpetuating racial segregation.