Affordable Housing Institute : US

What defines a household?  Does the definition extend to animals kept as pets?
 
For housing, including affordable housing, the question is more than idle.  Pets, particularly dogs, are more than an accoutrement: for many, especially the elderly, they are a source of emotional strength — and that, in turn, translates into health, well-being, and greater independence.
 
Conversely, […]

For our cities to prosper, they need affordable housing. 
 
For affordable housing to be sustainable, government must be involved.
 
I think both postulates can be proven.
 

 
The need for government-subsidized sustainable affordable housing is an integral part and inevitable byproduct of any modern urban environment.   (Rural is different: if land is free or virtually free, […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
As Joseph Schumpeter said, in one of the most famous passages about capitalism:
 
Capitalism, then, is by nature a form or method of economic change and not only never is but never can be stationary.
 

Schumpeter in Harvard Yard, 1940: “Nice church, maybe we knock it down?”
 
[…]
 
The fundamental impulse that sets and […]

Last week, New New Orleans took a step forward by officials showing judgment and courage:

NEW ORLEANS, June 14 — Federal housing officials announced on Wednesday that more than 5,000 public housing apartments for the poor were to be demolished here and replaced by developments for residents with a wider range of incomes.

Predictably, the […]

Not only is the world urbanizing rapidly, most of its urban newcomers are poor; and if they are limited to ‘market’ housing choices, the results are sprawling spontaneous communities that breed ignorance, disease, and crime.  Because slums are economically rational, market factors alone will produce plentiful housing that is not affordable, and affordable housing that […]