Construction Urban development Values 
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
As investor-owned rental properties increase, the values of other homes in a neighborhood can decline, worsening the racial wealth gap. Currently, about 60 percent of housing stock comprises single-family homes constructed before 1980.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 18, 2024
Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urban development 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.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Property values shoot up, as does the cost of living, and lower-income households are displaced. And in January 2022, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) opened access to more than $2 billion in federal funds to help communities equitably recover and improve long-term resilience to disasters and future climate impacts.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 26, 2023
A young adult explained how Yale’s expansion into the neighborhood was a direct agent of violence, both raising property values and pushing youth into dangerous enemy gang territory. The greater value of campus land is in its nonprofit tax- exempt status, which serves as a financial shelter for profitable research and private investors.
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 12, 2022
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.
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