Housing Crisis
Can Cities Build Their Way to Housing Equity? A New Book Suggests Not.
Sam Stein's Capital City offers a blistering and persuasive critique of how real estate dominates city planning—to the detriment of most residents.
Can Google's $1 Billion Real-Estate Pledge Put a Dent in the Bay Area's Housing Crisis?
The growth of the tech industry has put a high premium on available housing, and new construction isn't keeping up with need.
Can Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, and U.S. Cities End Exclusionary Zoning?
Most U.S. cities have a housing crisis and severe racial segregation. Will a spate of new plans work to solve both problems?
Will Algorithmic Tools Help or Harm the Homeless?
Researchers created an algorithm to identify the people most at risk for long-term homelessness in Los Angeles. Some worry the tool itself poses risks.
The Worsening Housing Crisis Plaguing Canada's First Nations Population
First Nations reserves residents are often forced to live in arduous conditions due to a system that prevents them from owning land or getting a mortgage.
Rent Control Passed in Oregon. Will It Work as a Housing-Crisis Solution Nationwide?
If rent-control measures pass in all of the states and cities where they're currently on the table, nearly a third of all renter households in the United States could secure relief.
High Rents Are Stunting Job-Market Growth
A mismatch between the numbers of jobs and the number of job seekers in a neighborhood doesn't only hurt workers. It hinders the labor market too.
Can New York Fix Its Housing Crisis?
The New York City Council passed a number of measures meant to ease the city's housing crisis. Will they work?
How to See Disaster Coming
Researchers analyze mathematics of rapid change in complex systems and find room for improvement—and hints at mitigation.
Housing Crisis Hits Poor Renters Hard
As the middle class sidles out of the houses it can no longer pay for, the migration is making it harder for the poorest renters to find a place.
How Foreclosures Feasted on Some Cities, Not Others
A look at foreclosures in two Southern California cities shows why some fared better than others in the housing crisis.
Leaky Homes Show Green Intentions Gone Wrong
In another kind of housing crisis, New Zealand homes built with chemical-free wood are leaky, while their owners are up a creek.
The Man Who Saw the Mortgage Crisis Coming
The Ohio official who sounded an early and frequent alarm about securitized home loans now has a plan for all those abandoned properties those loans helped create.
#OWS: Have We Entered the Age of Protest?
Popular movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party suggest that mass demonstrations have moved from the last resort of the powerless to the first resort of the newly empowered.
Learning to Play the HARP
The Obama administration has a mortgage refinancing program that needs some tuning.
Squat to Own
Two social ills come together in Miami for a positive outcome, at least on a small scale.
The New College Try
Gritty Hammond, Ind., and 80 other cities in decline have a novel approach to economic development: They're attracting new residents by offering to pay for their children to attend college. But is a promise to pay tuition a growth strategy — or welfare for the middle class?