April 14: What we’re reading this week

Some articles we found interesting this week:

  1. Wake County Students Facing Homelessness up 88% since 2014. Read more.

  2. The housing crisis is not just an urban problem. From Housingwire.

  3. Columbus is upzoning nearly 13,000 parcels along its transit corridors. Maybe Raleigh should be doing more upzoning, not less?

  4. Can Housing be an Investment and be Affordable? Via Strong Towns.

  5. NC Renter Advocacy Groups Form Statewide Tenants Union, WFAE reports.

  6. Political Leaders are Finally Starting to respond to the Housing Crisis, from Politico.

  7. To Fix Housing in Expensive Cities, Don’t Emulate the Inexpensive Ones, via Strong Towns.

  8. The Winds are Changing on Incremental Housing, via Strong Towns


    LONG READ: “Power to the Neighborhoods.” New York City’s Growth Politics, Neighborhood Liberalism and the Origins of the Modern Housing Crisis, from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.

     

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