Affordable Housing Institute : US

If you had a nifty innovation that had turned 500,000 public housing renters into homeowners, wouldn’t you trumpet it? 
 

 
Apparently, not if you were Scottish, or at least that’s what one would infer from a proposed policy change in the UK affordable housing ecosystem that is apparently emanating from Edinburgh, as reported in This is […]

Can ordinary people own too many homes? 
A story on CNN highlights the ever-expanding market for vacation homes: 
A small but growing segment of the market is buying multiple vacation properties for their own recreation, short-term rental income and the promise of long-term appreciation. 
Though these properties are bought primarily for personal vacation use, they are also a […]

A home is both a physical space and a tenure configuration.  The former is very hard to change, the latter sometimes surprisingly easy, as apartments can be sold off as condominiums: 
Another [Boston-area] developer plans to capitalize on a hot condo market by selling off its rental apartments to home buyers. 
Of course, the same box built […]

You might think that a public street is a public way, but what if its abutters maintain it? Even in an ostensibly civilized environment — Boston, the Hub of the Universe — tempers flare to the point of blows and vandalism when it comes to that most precious of commodities, a shoveled-out parking space. For […]