January 1: What we’re reading

Some articles we found interesting this week:

  1. Harris County is Moving Families into Permanently Affordable Homes Through Community Land Trust. Read more in the Houston Chronicle.

  2. Congress’ $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill Includes a baby “YIMBY” Grant Program. Read about it in Reason.

  3. The Year Affordable Housing Went Mainstream. More from Dwell.

  4. The Homeownership Society was a Mistake, via The Atlantic.

  5. Video: America’s Homeownership Gap, via Axios.

  6. Was Your Home Once Off-limits to non-Whites? These maps can tell you. From the Washington Post.

  7. Job Mobility During and After the Pandemic: Are Pandemic-era Trends in Job Changing Cause for Hope-or Concern? Read the research from the Richmond Fed.

  8. Why Metro Atlanta is the Poster Child for the US Housing Crisis, via Bloomberg.

  9. November 2022’s Median Price of Wake County Real Estate decreases by $7000 to $453,000, via Wake County.

  10. Opinion: The US Can Solve its Housing Crisis. It Just Needs to Start Building. Via Bloomberg.

  11. Homeowners Dominate Local Political Leadership. That’s Bad for Renters. Via Bloomberg.

Read the full January 1st newsletter here.

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