Resources
Washington DC
Washington Housing Initiative: Context and Contribution
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Appraising the District's rentals
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Why the housing crisis is a problem for everyone - even wealthy homeowners
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Region's elected officials urge their governments to commit to affordable-housing targets
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Report: 374,000 new homes needed to alleviate housing shortfall
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Without more housing soon, leaders fear declining quality of life
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D.C. area leaders to set broad housing construction targets to address affordability crisis
Single-family zoning and neighborhood characteristics in the District of Columbia
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Most experts agree that D.C. needs more housing. But building costs loom as a significant challenge.
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Gentrification in D.C. means widespread displacement, study finds
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The exodus from Greater Washington continues
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​A luxury home firewall could save this neighborhood from Amazon's HQ2
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What housing does the District's workforce need?
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Making workforce housing work for D.C.
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D.C. has the highest 'intensity' of gentrification of any U.S. city, study says
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The most expensive commutes in America aren't in NYC or San Francisco
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Who's hit hardest by the affordable housing shortage?
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What HQ2 could mean for the Washington region's housing market, in 7 charts
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D.C. residents must earn $34.48 an hour to afford a two-bedroom home, report says
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Strategies for Increasing Housing Supply in High-Cost Cities
Around the Nation
Housing Trust launches Apple's $150 million affordable housing fund
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Atlanta Affordable Housing Fund launches
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How Silicon Valley's tech companies plan to deploy $4.5B in housing commitments
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Big employers pledge billions toward Bay Area housing
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Facebook commits $1B to affordable housing in California
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Google makes housing commitment valued at $1 billion
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Bay area's high cost of living squeezes restaurant workers, chefs and owners
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Microsoft pledges $500 million for affordable housing in Seattle area
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General & policy
Filtering of apartment housing between 1980 and 2019
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The conundrum affordable housing poses for the nation
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"Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing" is Disappearing
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Untangling the housing shortage and gentrification
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How a Section 8 experiment could reveal a better way to escape poverty
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Institutional investing and affordable housing: a brief history and vision for the future
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The state of the nation's housing 2019
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These states are turning to rent control: how it affects affordable housing
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Social purpose REITs tackle affordable housing challenges
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Four years, $13 million and dozens of hands: how 'affordable housing' gets made in America​
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How placemaking can empower urban communities, not tear them apart
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Turning point for public housing
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Rich cities created the housing shortage
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The case for nonprofit housing managers
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How affordable housing gets built
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The low-income housing tax credit: past achievements, future challenges
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How the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act put affordable housing production at risk
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Nine rules for better housing policy
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NYU Furman Center and Abt Associates launch tool to tackle high housing costs
​Reframing affordable housing
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​Opportunity and housing access
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Neighborhoods
The hidden winners in neighborhood gentrification
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A better address can change a child's future
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Having a library or cafe down the block could change your life
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The neighborhood is most black. The home buyers are mostly white.
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Shifting neighborhoods: Gentrification and cultural displacement in American cities
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Detailed new national maps show how neighborhoods shape children for life
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Opinion | The neighborhood is the unit of change
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Growing up in a bad neighborhood does more harm than we thought
Renters
These fully redone apartments may help solve Miami's housing crisis. The rent stays cheap.
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Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of income
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Under US housing policies, homeowners mostly win, while renters mostly lose
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Yet more evidence that housing affordability is getting worse
Other case studies