While the United States faces a shocking shortage of millions of affordable-housing units for lower-income residents, a new white paper has been released that shows drawn-out approval and permitting processes are a major cause of …
How Can We Fix America’s Shocking Lack of Affordable Housing?
In its recent annual report, the National Low Income Housing Coalition laid out some shocking facts. First, no state or major metropolitan area in America has an adequate supply of affordable housing for extremely-low-income renters. …
Harvard Report Says Government Must Urgently Build Millions of Affordable-Housing Units
In its widely read annual report, the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies made one thing perfectly clear: the government – federal, state, and local – must build more affordable housing. Things are so bad …
There’s Only One Must-Read Right Now – and it’s a Housing Report by the United Nations. Really.
One of the most fascinating reads right now is not Theo of Golden or London Falling or The Calamity Club. It’s a 322-page report by United Nations-Habitat called The Global Housing Crisis: Pathways to Action, …
Will Los Angeles Politicians Fix City Hall’s Bizarro Bureaucracy and Save Lives? (We Have Some Suggestions)
Developers of affordable housing in California already have a rough time of it: funding is hard to secure; construction costs spiral; cities put up a fight for one reason or another. But Los Angeles’s bizarro …
California Desperately Needs to Speed Up Permitting to Address the Housing Affordability Crisis
One look at a data dashboard by the California Department of Housing and Community Development shows that the state desperately needs to ramp up the construction of very-low-income, low-income, and moderate-income housing. A key way …
Zillow’s Chief Economist is Still Right About the Dire Need for More Affordable Housing
Nearly 10 years ago, on July 28, 2016, Zillow Chief Economist Dr. Svenja Gudell released a “Zillow analysis” about the kinds of apartments built in America – luxury units compared to affordable. It was a …
‘3 Ps’ Must Be Top Priority for Housing Policymakers
As the housing affordability and homelessness crises continue to slam the poor and middle- and working-class residents, the “3 Ps” must be a top priority for housing policymakers. Trickle-down housing solutions don’t help those who …
UPDATE: It’s Obvious. Americans Need More Affordable Housing!
Update, November 21, 2022: A new Associated Press article explains that Americans want more affordable housing by passing rent control and affordable-housing ballot measures across the country. More details at the end of the article. …
Housing Is A Human Right’s November 2022 Voter Guide for California
Election Day is only weeks away, so Housing Is A Human Right is rolling out a November 2022 Voter Guide for California. We’re mostly focused on ballot measures that will help solve the housing affordability …