January 29: What we’re reading this week
Some articles we found interesting this week:
Local Perspective:
Interactive map of Raleigh showing home prices increases by zip code, from the N&O.
No area is affordable: New Triangle housing report reveals challenges for most buyers, from ABC11.
Affordable Housing units coming to Glenwood South, from TBJ.
Raleigh unlikely to see much relief from upward pressure on residential real estate prices, from CNBC.
Rent trap: Triangle housing costs squeeze middle- to low-income workers to the brink, from the N&O.
Raleigh homelessness concerns rise over growing homeless encampment next to I-40 in Raleigh, from ABC11.
Living in 160 square feet: Century-old home to transform into 100 micro-apartments in downtown Raleigh, from WRAL.
National Perspective:
Are hedge funds really contributing to the housing affordability crisis? Here is an article suggesting the argument is overblown, from The Atlantic.
Black Congregations are Developing Affordable Housing on Church Land, via Shelterforce.
“Taking ADUs to the Next Level” is a webinar discussing how to encourage more equitable development using ADUs, also via Shelterforce.
Interesting article suggesting that California’s modest version of “Missing Middle” regulatory reform may not be having a significant impact on duplex construction since passage, via the LA Times.
The inside story of how Baltimore's inclusionary housing bill got hollowed out, and how activists hope to fix it. Via TRNN.
Series: Challenging Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning. The program has failed by retarding housing production, reducing overall supply, and likely contributing to housing inflation and it also has produced very little benefit for the damage it has caused, from Forbes.
Affordable Housing is a Problem of Hypocrisy. People like to talk about what is right, but they don’t want to do much to fix things, also from Forbes.
Urban Institute has a great land use lab resource page that is worth a look. Read it here.
Tracing the Money: Case Studies in the Budgetary and Zoning Policies of Exclusionary Municipalities, also from the Urban Institute.
Atlanta mayor and councilmember look to provide affordable housing for public safety officials, from RoughDraft Atlanta.
American Mayors: Affordable Housing Demand is Crushing Us, via Politico.
In Omaha, a Streetcar Named Undesirable by Warren Buffett, via NYT.
Biden Revives Housing Rule That Trump Derided as ‘Abolishing the Suburbs’ A civil rights-era fair housing policy is back, with new tweaks aimed at making it easier to snuff out segregation, from Bloomberg and The White House.
Free speech or out of order? As meetings grow wild, officials try to tame public comment, from the Washington Post.
Not sure this is as significant in Raleigh, but it merits consideration. OPINION: Downtowns are Lifeless, from the Washington Post.
The Typical American Renter is Rent-Burdened, from the NYT.
New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up so Much? Via Curbed.
Urban Institute Report: Addressing the Legacies of Historical Redlining. Read it here.
America the Bland is a NYT article discussing the “sameness” of housing architecture across America. Read it here.
The ink isn’t even dry on the incorporation charter for the new City of Mableton in Georgia, and already there’s a sizable faction that is trying to secede from it, via Bloomberg.