Salt Lake City Housing Authority Serves Residents Experiencing Homelessness
The next city in our Global Cities and Affordable Housing series is Nairobi, Kenya, located in East Africa. The Maasai tribe, local nomadic pastoralists, named the city Enkare Nairobi, or “cool water” in the Maa language, after a large watering hole. Nairobi was colonized as a railway city by the British East African Company in the 1890s. Swahili and English are the national languages.
Supportive Housing in Los Angeles Embodies Policy Innovations
Local Action To Increase Affordable Housing Supply
Mixed Income Artist Community Serves Downtown Baltimore
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies Releases State of the Nation’s Housing 2022
The housing affordability crisis in the United States is multifaceted and longstanding. One factor contributing to high housing costs is the inability of the residential construction industry to supply enough new housing units to meet demand.
Preserving the Past and Adapting to the Future in Lafayette, Louisiana
California Communities Use State Grant to Combat Climate Change and Rising Rents
The 2022 Innovative Housing Showcase, a partnership between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), brought thousands of visitors to Washington, DC’s National Mall from June 10 – 12.
Transfiguration Place Apartments Gains Its Third Life as Affordable Housing in Detroit’s Banglatown
Cedar Grove Becomes First Part of Billion-Dollar Redevelopment of Los Angeles Public Housing
One way to reduce housing costs is to make the construction process more affordable and scalable.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought public health to the forefront of policy and society in the United States and around the world.
Dr. Alice Moore Apartments is a new supportive housing development in the historic Northwood Shores neighborhood of West Palm Beach, Florida.
Transit-oriented developments (TODs) provide access to high-quality transit that connects residents to resources and amenities across a city or region.
Opened in 2019 on land once owned by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA), Aspen Place is a 40-unit affordable development in the EcoVillage, a compact area in Cleveland, Ohio’s Detroit Shoreway neighborhood that is dedicated to environmental sustainability.
In March 2022, the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University hosted “Bringing Digitalization Home,” a symposium exploring how digital technology might influence how housing is built, used, and financed.
The South Boston neighborhood, located a few miles from downtown Boston, is well known as a working-class area and home to a large community of Irish immigrants and their descendants.