At the same time, too many housing developers hear “affordable housing” and think, “Nope. Those projects don’t let me afford as many lambskin house slippers as building another high-rise.

Any plan to actually deliver the 1.5m homes the government has committed to must be guided by pragmatism, not dogma – and lower targets for affordable housing can often result in more actually ...

But the Oakland-based developer sees micro-studios as a way to provide “affordability by design” in a state where the cost of ...

How to Make City Housing More Affordable. In many cities, large swaths of people are being priced out of the market. But several strategies might change that. By . Mark Peters. Share.

Affordable housing is topping the list of public concerns, with more funding, more activity and more public support than ever before, yet statistics indicate that we are making little headway.

My housing plan will build 500,000 homes over the next decade — including 50,000 affordable homes for New Yorkers to own or rent in new neighborhoods on four of the city’s 12 municipal golf ...

The people who most need affordable housing are those making below 50 percent AMI, he said. You can’t reach those people in big numbers without city, state, and/or federal government subsidies.

Kamala Harris is promising to make housing more affordable, and her answers so far are more subsidies, rent control and national intervention in local zoning. She’d be wiser to look at how New ...