This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Currently, about 60 percent of housing stock comprises single-family homes constructed before 1980. While new housing is needed—and nonprofits must continue to be equipped to construct new housing—it is also important to maximize opportunities for new housing supply in the existing inventory of homes.
In the 1960s, the construction of interstate highway I-76 and state Route 59 disconnected Summit Lake from the rest of Akron. All these popular amenities and activities were conceived and constructed in close collaboration with residents. The city’s Black business district was devastated.
By investing billions in affordable housing, we can start to address the growing housing crisis and help workers acquire homes, thereby further building their retirement security while creating construction jobs and stimulating local economies.
Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urbandevelopment 4 —development that instead, in most cases, came at an unbearable cost. Eminent domain gobbled up many homes, exploited labor, and pushed the start of new jail construction and inflammatory policy–policing.
11 Under the cover of “educational purposes,” research that has the potential to generate millions in patent revenues—let alone the revenues from construction or health services—benefits from the reduced overhead of sitting on property-tax-exempt campus land. Given my work, it specifically focuses on university-driven urbandevelopment.
A committee of tenants, including some rent strike leaders, conducted physical inspections of the buildings’ infrastructure with our housing construction manager. At PYRIA’s request, Chinatown CDC staff then provided technical support to tenant leaders to critically evaluate the agency’s proposal.
Hawaiian innovation is reflected in the variety of loko i‘a design and construction methods, demonstrating an unparalleled understanding of engineering, hydrology, ecology, biology, and agriculture managed holistically within watershed-scale land divisions called ahupua‘a. Image courtesy of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
using non-toxic building materials that were manufactured, transported, and constructed using low-carbon, non-polluting methods and materials); reducing energy consumption and pollution; and using integrative design , which incorporates sustainability up front and promotes good health and livability throughout the building’s life cycle.
A Changing Reputation Modular home construction has existed in some form for over a century. Instead, contemporary manufactured homes are regulated under a strict code from the US Department of Housing and UrbanDevelopment (HUD). And the average construction cost of a manufactured home is just $90,000.
Social housing must first serve and prioritize those most excluded by for-profit developers and landlords. New construction is often geared at luxury buyers, even though poorer renter households—of whom over 11 million qualify as “extremely low income” in government classifications—have the greatest housing needs.
Housing: The Project 2025 chapter on housing is authored by a familiar name, none other than the former US Housing and UrbanDevelopment (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson. Roger Severino , a former Trump administration official in the department who authors the HHS chapter (chapter 14), advocates for eliminating the program (482).
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 27,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content