Housing

Terrain.org takes a look at Plum Creek, a New Urbanist development outside Austin, TX that added 1,400 households to a town that had only 4,000 people in the mid-1990s.

January 14, 2009 - Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments

What comes next for the doomed, enclosed mall across America? This article highlights a number of solutions, including an adaptive reuse model that incorporates housing units inside the mall itself.

January 8, 2009 - HousingWire

Bend, Oregon councilmembers took no more than five minutes to vote to expand the city's urban growth boundaries, adding nearly 9,000 acres of developable land to the city's map.

January 7, 2009 - KOHD

Eleven Amish families have sued their own town for religious discrimination in its building code.

January 7, 2009 - Chicago Tribune

Architect Teddy Cruz is creating new models of affordable housing using the shantytowns of Tijuana as his inspiration.

January 6, 2009 - GOOD Magazine

Fewer teardowns and new home starts back up the perception that the age of the McMansion is coming to an end.

January 6, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor

This piece from The Washington Post looks at a formerly thriving streetcar neighborhood that has become a thriving Metro neighborhood -- despite decades of decline in between.

January 6, 2009 - The Washington Post

Job growth is slower in areas that don't have enough housing, according to a new study.

January 3, 2009 - The Boston Globe

Controversy surrounds a $20 million redesign of New York City's Union Square Park.

January 1, 2009 - The New York Times

Developer Amir Ziv thought he'd received all the approvals he needed for a controversial affordable housing development in Columbia, MO - but failed to count on storm water regulations.

January 1, 2009 - The Columbia Tribune

Housing prices are falling across the country. But the decline has been relatively small in New York City, America's "Resilient City" according to Edward L. Glaeser. He says this bodes well for the city's future.

December 31, 2008 - The New York Times

Seattle has been allowing developers to build higher buildings in exchange for contributing to a fund for affordable housing. But with few units built, officials are hoping to rewrite the legislation to remove restrictions and get more housing built.

December 30, 2008 - The Seattle Times

The latest figures show a dramatic drop in housing starts across the United States -- a sign, according to Dean Baker, that builders are having trouble securing credit.

December 29, 2008 - Center for Economic and Policy Research

Businesses in Fort Worth, Texas, invest in a city-led plan to combat homelessness.

December 26, 2008 - Fort Worth Business Press

The Bush Administration's ideology of homeownership combined with a lack of oversight contributed significantly to the collapse of the housing market and the present economic crisis, according to this New York Times investigation.

December 22, 2008 - New York Times

Legal actions have been brought against more than a dozen Amish residents in Wisconsin and New York for building structures in their traditional style, but without building permits.

December 21, 2008 - Associated Press

Nick Paumgarten imagines a New York City landscape that would result from a present-day economic crisis.

December 21, 2008 - The New Yorker

This article from The New York Times looks at how Clinton-era tax breaks helped create the housing bubble.

December 20, 2008 - The New York Times

There will be no infill development at Jefferson Park, near the University of Arizona, that increases density. The move contradicts the city's plan to achieve a more "urban feel."

December 19, 2008 - Tuscon Citizen

Last week, a Santa Barbara apartment community, The Garden Center, opened to 38 new residents. The apartments were specifically designed to combat homelessness through housing and mental health care all at once.

December 19, 2008 - Miller-McCune