The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
AUGUST 2, 2023
State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, the Playhouse Square Development Corporation, and Jubilee Housing of Baltimore (focused on live work housing) are particularly good examples. Sadly, wrt the Purple Line I first suggested this in 2007. Housing market, venture capital and single family housing as rentals.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
APRIL 29, 2024
Introduction President Biden recently addressed the pressing issue of housing affordability in his recent State of the Union (SOTU) speech, announcing several initiatives to tackle it. Together, these two events make clear that closing costs are moving to the front burner of housing policy. So, this is still an evolving situation.)
Center for Community Progress
JUNE 6, 2022
Once-thriving middle-class neighborhoods with much history, shops, solid housing stock, and cultural treasures transitioned almost overnight into vacant and abandoned streets and retail strips. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007. The trend continued for the next several years.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MAY 31, 2023
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes.
Let's Talk Parks
MARCH 2, 2022
The housing market crisis had just occurred in 2007, and I graduated in 2009. You’re demonstrating yourself as responsible, accountable, and having good communication skills. They’ve had several interviews, and they just can’t land that job. So the workforce was still kind of feeling those effects.
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