Building Better Cities - Urban Transportation and Housing News
WEBUpcoming Event. September 17, 2024 1:00pm EASTERN. This session will explore the contributions and impact that immigrant workers make in building and fixing our cities, the biggest labor and human rights issues facing this workforce and the business structures unique to the building and construction industry that perpetuate these conditions.
Five Ways Local Governments Can Spur Development of …
WEBJun 30, 2020 · Here are their five recommendations for creative ways to finance affordable housing. 1. Establish a housing finance agency. A housing finance agency (HFA) is a government entity designed to promote affordable housing by issuing tax-exempt bonds and using the proceeds from the sales to offer low-cost mortgages to …
Infrastructure - Next City
WEBNext City covers how we adapt our infrastructure to match new realities in cities and create the future our country and planet needs. Infrastructure encompasses the nuts and bolts of what makes a city function: the roads, bridges, tracks, and parking that support the ways we move around town; the utilities that transport and supply water, power and heat to buildings; how waste is collected ...
Urban News - In-Depth Features from Next City
WEBFeatures. With all the conversation about cities, sometimes nuance gets lost to pithy headlines and sound bites. At Next City, we publish original, in-depth feature stories on issue critical to our shared urban future. Go deeper than …
Meet the Bill To Ban Hedge Funds From Owning Single-Family …
WEBMar 28, 2024 · While the overall ownership of single-family homes by private equity remains relatively small, a 2022 report by MetLife estimated that by 2030, 7.6 million single-family rental homes in the United States—more than 40 percent—could be owned by corporate investors. According to a November report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) the estimate of 1.6 million housing units ...
Gentrification - Next City
WEBThe history of gentrification in America starts in the 1960s, when the term was coined. Over the next five and a half decades, communities have wielded varying tools and strategies in response to gentrification’s challenges. We think it’s worth a fresh look at the ideas that animate this conversation.
History of Gentrification in America: A Timeline | Next City
WEB1964. The term “gentrification” is coined by Ruth Glass. “One by one, many of the working class quarters have been invaded by the middle class – upper and lower …. Once this process of ‘gentrification’ starts in a district it goes on rapidly until all or most of the working class occupiers are displaced and the whole social ...
Urbanist News - Top Stories and In-Depth Features from Next City
WEBUrbanist News. Next City goes beyond pithy headlines and sound bites, publishing original, in-depth features on urbanist news issues critical to our shared future. Our daily stories and in-depth feature articles, written by journalists from around the globe, span a wide range of topics, from transportation and infrastructure, to affordable ...
6 Ways Affordable Housing Developers Are Fighting NIMBYism
WEBJul 17, 2017 · 1. Be Proactive. Corianne Scally, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute who has extensively studied NIMBYism, has found that neighborhood opposition typically occurs very early in the development process. As a result, she says affordable housing practitioners need to engage “early and often.”.
Defining NYC Gentrification Through the Cost of Rent - Next City
WEBMay 10, 2016 · After studying rent increases in New York City, NYU’s Furman Center has released a report that labels 15 neighborhoods as “gentrifying” — out of 55 total. In this case, gentrification is defined as areas that were relatively low income in the 1990s, but since have experienced high rent growth. “The term ‘gentrification’ is often ...