“Housing becomes less affordable when we don’t build it, not when we do. Most important, it is not developers who benefit from our housing crisis but everyone who owns property. Yes, some deep-pocketed developers have profited handsomely in our overheated market. But so have landlords, who with limited competition have charged ever-higher rents. So have homeowners, whose property values have ballooned.” – A better way to solve the housing crisis — tax land, not development
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“The trailers showed up later in 2010, at the Deepwater Horizon spill. They showed up in 2011 in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee, in neighborhoods that had been flattened by tornadoes.” – People are still living in FEMA’s toxic Katrina trailers – and they likely have no idea
“Utah, for instance, has seen an astonishing 72 percent drop in its numbers of chronically homeless, thanks to a policy called Housing First, which offers homeless individuals permanent supportive housing, no strings attached.” – Tent cities: Seattle’s unique approach to homelessness
“one poor household is still living, shivering, in an extremely affordable house on Arlington Avenue” – The Red-Hot Rubble of East New York: How Brooklyn’s Gentrification Profiteers Are Expanding Their Boundaries
“A slightly wacky, but intriguing idea: mandating that apartments have removable walls between them, so they can grow and shrink with demographic change.” – http://ift.tt/1dQVvfA