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To determine a city’s affordability, housing costs cannot be viewed in a vacuum. Transportation costs are also a major factor, according to a new policy brief, Location Affordability in Large U.S. Cities: Variability among Types of Households, from the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) in New York City.
Housing in America: Integrating Housing, Health, and Resilience in a Changing Environmentexplores the connection between strengthening the resilience of housing and communities to severe weather and building for health and wellness.
In spring 2013, the leadership of two ULI product councils—the Senior Housing Council and the Community Development Council—came together on the idea of exploring an issue that was becoming increasingly important among their council members: intergenerational living.
Housing that truly accommodates the needs of multiple generations living under one roof and that promotes interaction among them is a niche far from being filled, W. Aaron Conley, president and managing principal of Third Act Solutions, said during a ULI Terwilliger Center on Housing webinar in June.
A Los Angeles developer and architect use a new small-lot ordinance to build single-family houses at a garden-apartment type of density.
A new report from NYU’s Furman Center underscores the challenges of retrofitting New York City’s multifamily housing stock against the threat of rising sea levels.
Demographic trends all but dictate that this will be a growth industry. What will satisfy the tastes and needs of discerning seniors?
The U.S. housing recovery should regain its footing this year, concludes The State of the Nation’s Housing report released by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.
Employer-assisted rental housing helps attract faculty in a high-cost Washington, D.C., suburb.
Public and private capital can be combined–and leveraged–to provide more workforce housing.