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Affordability still an issue needing a fix
OUR VIEWS WORKFORCE HOUSING CRISIS Palm Beach Post Editorial Board All is not sunshine and beaches with the Florida economy. At least not when it comes to housing affordability. GateHouse Media Capital Bureau correspondent John Kennedy reported last week the percentage of Florida households owning homes has now plunged to “its worst level ever seen,…
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Who Is the “Public” at Public Meetings?
August 27, 2018by Strong Towns Here at Strong Towns, we’ve spotlighted the shortcomings of conventional public participation in the development process before. When the public is asked to weigh in on development and infrastructure decisions, it is often in ways that are, at best, outside their expertise, and at worst, actively corrosive of civic trust because of…
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NIMBY vs. YIMBY: Housing battle brews in booming Seattle
By Phuong Le -Associated Press SEATTLE – Seattle’s booming tech industry has brought a massive influx of new residents with big wallets to the city. But an ensuing housing crunch has led to skyrocketing rents and home prices that have strained middle- and working-class families and deepened the city’s crisis of homelessness. To keep construction…
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‘My Generation Is Never Going to Have That’
In Seattle’s red-hot housing market, a group of millennial techies is using data skills to alter the look, and affordability, of their adopted city. By PAUL ROBERTS April 26, 2018 On a brisk Saturday morning in March, a 27-year-old programmer named Zach Lubarsky, bundled in a fatigue jacket and knit cap, took a ReachNow rental…
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Why Housing Research Adds Value across Disciplines
Urban Institute- How Housing Matters September 06, 2018 by Veronica Gaitán and Maya Brennan Yesterday, vice president and chief innovation officer of the Urban Institute, Erika Poethig, testified before members of the US House of Representatives to share evidence on the impact of regulations on the development of affordable multifamily rental housing. Poethig noted that many…
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Affordable Housing in Palm Beach County Continues to be Out of Reach for Many
By Robert S Weinroth One of the few things I remember from my college economics classes, over 40 years ago, is the law of supply and demand, considered one of the fundamental principles governing an economy. It is described as the state where as supply increases the price will tend to drop or vice versa,…
