Affordable Housing Institute : US

[New New Orleans posting archive here, with updates here, here, here, here, here, and here.]
 
Not only has FEMA issued its long-awaited rules, the line FEMA has drawn is broadly generous.  As the Washington Post reports:
 
NEW ORLEANS — A long-awaited government projection on this city’s flood danger recommends that thousands of homes and businesses in areas […]

Have you ever returned to the old neighborhood, to see the house you grew up in?  Are you shocked at how it’s changed, or horrified at how small it is?  Can you really have grown up with all those siblings in that shoebox?
 

And there was an insect problem too ….
 
You’re not merely reimagining your […]

As far as I can tell, the first efforts to create sustainable affordable housing arose in England in the tenth century, with the almshouses:
 
The first recorded Almshouse was founded by King Athelstan in York in the 10th century AD. The oldest charity still in existence is thought to be the Hospital of St. Oswald in […]

[Previous months in review: Feb, Jan, Dec-05.]
 
March came in like a lion, with a post asking the provocative question, are Democrats zoning themselves blue in the states?
 
Maybe I’ve lived too long in the People’s Republic of Cambridge [You have! — Ed.], where rent control was the defining local issue until its 1994 statewide repeal, but […]

Last week AHI hosted Australia’s Jarrod Gitsham,
 

Jarrod GItsham and David Smith
 
who is in the US (Boston, New York, Washington DC) on his Hugh Stretton Award fellowship, looking at US programs to increase homeownership, with a view to assessing which of them offer lessons for Australia generally and his employer, the South Australia Housing Trust.
 
Using […]