Affordable Housing Institute : US

Buried in the typical apartment lease is the resident’s right to ‘quiet enjoyment’ of the premises.  While it doesn’t specifically mean noise (rather, it refers to undisturbed occupancy), as anyone who’s lived in an apartment complex knows, ‘quiet’ is often a precondition to ‘enjoyment.’ 
 

I’m not enjoying your taste in music
 
Noise travels, and it cannot be […]

What do you do when you’ve got a lovely, empty condo?
 

Ready for immediate occupancy!
 
The worst thing the condos can do is sit vacant for a protracted interval.  Not only does this cost you operating money, an unoccupied property feels unloved, and people shy away from moving in there.  So, as illustrated by this recent […]

Yesterday’s post about the prejudices against rental naturally invites the question, what is true about rental?

A.         Rental is always disfavored in political resources. 
 
You wouldn’t find the answers in a 1922 booklet by M. W. Folsom, “The Facts about Home Owning“, from A Home of Your Own.
 

Rental always wishes it got as much political love as […]

Throughout my professional career, I’ve dealt with a curious prejudice – against rental housing generally, and against affordable rental in particular.
 

 
In country after country, situation after situation, I’ve found that when people think of housing, they instinctively equate it with homeownership, and when making distinctions, ownership is seen as good, rental as bad.  A great […]

To-ga!  To-ga!  To-ga!
 
Students off campus – can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em — at least, that seems to be the prevailing wisdom of the student towns I’ve observed here in greater Boston and elsewhere (as I posted in No adolescents need apply).  Even as communities want the ‘right’ sort of people, they seem […]