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Will New York State take over the beleaguered NYCHA?
Photo: Dan DeLuca/Flickr If one aspiring congressman gets his way, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) could have a new administrator: Governor Cuomo. First created in 1924, the NYCHA houses...
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If you make $150,000 to $250,000, you would qualify for Palo Alto’s proposed...
Photo: Franco Folini/Flickr The middle class is struggling in Silicon Valley. The City of Palo Alto is exploring a proposal that focuses on subsidizing the construction of smaller downtown residential...
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What the ZQA/MIH vote means for the future of affordable housing
Photo: Retrofresh!/Flickr Earlier this month, the New York City Housing Council overwhelmingly approved two key tenets of Mayor de Blasio’s $41 billion affordable housing plan: Mandatory Inclusionary...
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Op-ed from Berkeley’s mayor reveals potentially game-changing Housing Action...
Photo: John Morgan/Flickr Traffic is to LA what rental prices are to the Bay Area — no one can quit talking about the issue. Relief for the Bay Area, however, might be on the way. In an op-ed...
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San Francisco Planning Commission faces stylistic concerns over Mission...
Rendering of 1924 Mission Street by Gerry Ramsey Two Mission housing developments were up for review by the Planning Commission on Thursday, with stylistic concerns cited by the local activist...
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Meet the grassroots organizations advocating YIMBYism in the Bay Area and beyond
Photo: Bernard Spragg. NZ/Flickr Earlier this month, YIMBY housing advocates gathered in Oakland for the second annual YIMBYtown conference. They met in the hopes of furthering the conversation on the...
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How this affordable housing nonprofit is transforming San Francisco’s...
Ground Breaking of the new Eddy & Taylor Family Apartments, photo courtesy of TNDC Founded in 1981, the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation was conceived during an era when hotel...
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NASA to lease 1,930 new housing units in Silicon Valley
Photo: Mat Hampson/Flickr In a press release last week, NASA Ames Research Center announced plans to lease 1,930 new housing units in Silicon Valley with first priority going towards those who work or...
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The University of Washington plans to build affordable housing for employees
Photo: Joe Mabel/Flickr The University of Washington has announced it will partner with the Seattle Housing Authority to build at least 150 subsidized apartments in the University District for its...
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Sign proposing a gentrification tax appears, then disappears, in Toronto’s...
Photo: creamerandsugar/Instagram On early Tuesday morning, a political art piece crafted from plywood appeared in Trinity Bellwoods Park. While it has since been removed, it attracted plenty of...
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Government funding will help increase affordable housing in Calgary
There’s good news for affordable housing in Calgary. The city is about to have more housing options thanks to a $10.7 million joint investment grant by the Government of Canada and the Government of...
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Vancouver considers thin streets to help address affordable housing
Vancouver’s streets may get thinner. According to an article in The Vancouver Sun, three Vancouver communities – Grandview-Woodland, Marpole and the West End – are set to become the first in the city...
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Vancouver’s affordable housing plan gets approval from council
As Vancouver’s housing affordability plan went to city council on Wednesday, there were plenty of opposing voices. However, the council ultimately decided to go forward with the new housing...
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Affordable housing plan: Vancouver man to live in van for one year
For people of a certain age, every time someone mentions “a man living in a van,” it’s nearly impossible not to think of the famous and fictional motivational speaker Matt Foley. But for one...
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Two Vancouver students spend school year living on a sailboat
Last weekend we told you about Mathew Arthur – the 30-year-old Vancouver man who plans to live in a van for an entire year because he’s fed up with the city’s rental market. This week we continue to...
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Does affordable housing for some make housing more expensive for others?
The following is a guest post by Marc P. Kemerer a partner with Blaney McMurtry LLP in the firm’s Planning and Expropriation law group and the Architectural/Construction/Engineering Services (ACES)...
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A $1,500 house that can be built in 10 days
We’re so used to skyscraper-high prices in real estate that we’re more shocked by genuinely affordable housing. Case in point: this $1,500 home that can be built in 10 days. The modular...
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RBC: Housing affordability erodes across Canada
Homeownership got further out of reach for the average Canadian family over the summer. According to a new report from the Royal Bank of Canada, higher prices and a rise in mortgage rates set the...
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How affordable artist housing is pushing back against gentrification in New York
Photo: El Barrio’s Artspace PS109/Facebook Ironically enough, starving artists are often to blame for gentrification. A neighborhood’s cool factor is generally established by the ‘makers’ and the...
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Newly constructed in-law units are now permitted in two districts of San...
Photo: Nova Punongbayan Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), also known as as in-law units, were approved by the Board of Supervisors office last night on the first round of votes impacting City districts...
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Will mandatory inclusionary housing be the new norm in NYC?
Photo: Harold Navarro/Flickr NYC is in the midst of a housing crisis. Nearly half of New Yorkers are hovering around the poverty line and last year, more than fifty percent of renters were...
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Developers, politicians and activists debate the future of NYC affordable...
Photo: Brent Lomas On Thursday, September 17th, a group of influential voices in New York City’s affordable housing movement gathered at the Museum of the City of New York. The “Affordable Housing:...
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In $5.3 billion deal, two firms agree to preserve middle class housing in...
Photo: Dan DeLuca/Flickr Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm, and Ivanhoé Cambridge, a major Canadian pension fund manager, are the new owners of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village,...
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Why are some NYC neighborhoods hemorrhaging affordable housing?
Photo: Edgar Zuniga Jr./Flickr On the heels of the mayor’s January announcement touting record new affordable housing, the NYU Furman Center published a study showing that “high-opportunity”...
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Why is there no inclusionary housing on the Upper East Side?
Photo: NYC.gov The Inclusionary Housing Program has been part of NYC policy since 1987. Its aim is to create economically integrated communities in areas seeing new housing development, by offering a...
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Controversial affordable housing plan decision in hands of New York City Council
Photo: Parker Miles Blohm/Flickr New York City will see extensive zoning changes if Mayor de Blasio’s 483-page affordable housing plan is adopted by the City Council. Presented to council last week,...
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Two NYU Furman Center-approved changes that could make the property tax...
Photo: BenBenBenBen/Flickr Local property tax is the oldest tax levied in the United States, and it has historically been viewed as the least fair when compared to other taxes like social security,...
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Have 200,000 NYC apartments been illegally lost rent stabilization?
Photo: Jason Devaun/Flickr Since the 1990s, there has been a consensus among housing experts that there over one million rent-stabilized apartments in New York City. But data provided to ProPublica...
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New family-friendly rental building with affordable housing could replace...
Rendering: KPMB Architects via City of Toronto A church situated just west of Scarborough’s Cedarbrae Mall near Lawrence Avenue East and Markham Road could be demolished to make room for a new...
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New NDP-Liberal supply and confidence agreement outlines housing...
Photo: pololia / Adobe Stock The federal Liberal and NDP parties have reached a new collaborative agreement on common policy goals, including actions to make housing more affordable and accessible in...
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Here’s how Ontario’s quest to improve housing affordability could influence...
Photo: bruno135_406 / Adobe Stock As homeownership becomes harder to achieve in Ontario as a result of rising prices and intense market demand, the conversation around creating more homes as a solution...
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Peel Region eyes Vacant Home Tax to boost affordable housing supply
Photo: Brandon / Adobe Stock Peel Region could be the next municipality to implement a Vacant Home Tax in an effort to make more housing available. On April 13th, the Region of Peel announced that it...
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Here’s what each major party is promising on housing in the 2022 Ontario...
Photo: TOimages / Adobe Stock As interest rates rise and real estate prices remain high, housing will likely be on the minds of many Ontario voters when they head to the polls on Thursday, June 2nd....
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Rising construction costs since 2020 ‘significantly’ impacting Metro...
Photo: Imagenet / Adobe Stock The cost to build new homes in Canada has been on the rise, and is having a direct impact on Metro Vancouver’s future stock of affordable housing projects. A report...
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Where did all the starter homes go?
If you’re looking to buy your first house but can’t seem to find any affordable options, you’re not alone. Starter homes – single-family homes with 1,400 square feet or less – used to be a popular...
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RE/MAX CEO Nick Bailey weighs in on the state of the national market
October revealed a very different housing market than what we’ve grown accustomed to seeing. After two years of turbulence and fierce competition for homes, national sales have declined and inventory...
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Rental housing supply across the nation surged in 2022 but demand outpaced growth – leading to skyrocketing prices, record-low vacancy rates and less mobility. Approximately 55,000 purpose-built rental...
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One in five Canadian homeowners is a property investor
A new study by the Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP) revealed the percentage of property investors across five Canadian provinces. Unsurprisingly, city centers and tourist areas in Ontario and...
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