January 28: What we’re reading this week

Some articles we found interesting this week:

  1. The Town That Took Downtown Renewal to the Next Level, from Bloomberg.

  2. What Drives the High Cost of Affordable Housing, from Planetizen.

  3. Housing Affordability is Reshaping Migration Patterns across the United States, via CNBC.

  4. Lack of Affordable Homes for Sale Hits Minorities Hardest. Read more.

  5. How Tiny Homes went from a Millennial Lifestyle Fad to a Hail Mary Shot to Solve the Homeless Crisis, from Fortune.

  6. What is Greensboro doing to address its housing affordability crisis? Via Triad City Beat.

  7. Hedge funds are expected to own 40% of single-family homes by 2030. Congress may act in response. More here.  

  8. Harvard scholars say a record number of Americans are spending more than half their income on rent. Read more.

  9. High Rent Equals High Homelessness-It’s that Simple, from Indivisible People.

  10. America is Aging into a Housing Crisis for Older Adults, via Bloomberg.

  11. Reducing minimum lot size is helping Houston address housing affordability, from the Mercatus Center.

     

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