NYTIMES (Hilary Howard) - Housing or Flood Protection? In Brooklyn, Housing Is Winning.
A towering apartment development has been approved for the waterfront, even though some residents would have preferred parkland.
NYTIMES (Robin Pogrebin) - Plans for Unrealized ‘Trump Castle’ Surface 40 Years Later
The 800-foot-tall residential development was designed by the architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee, but scrapped before construction. An archivist saved the rough draft.
NYTIMES (Binyamin Appelbaum) - One City Might Have Just Cracked the Housing Crisis
A large real estate development in the middle of Vancouver, British Columbia, shows how cities can build more housing.
NYTIMES (The Editorial Board) - How to Legalize Starter Homes
Blue states like Massachusetts need to be part of the solution.
NYTIMES (Jane Margolies) - A Homeowner Built Townhouses in a Jersey City Backyard
As YIMBYs and NIMBYs debate where to build housing, a project in Jersey City, N.J. shows how seemingly irreconcilable sides can find common ground.
NYTIMES (Amanda Abrams) - A 22,000-Home Community Is Being Built in a 5,000-Person Town
Chatham Park, a master-planned community in Pittsboro, N.C., is expected to expand the town to 60,000 people when completed.
NPR (Jennifer Ludden) - Bucking stigma, more places turn to factory-built for affordable housing
Mobile homes have long been zoned out of cities and suburbs. But with updated designs and a housing shortage, they're increasingly being welcomed as more-affordable starter homes.
NPR (Jennifer Ludden) - Bucking stigma, more places turn to factory-built for affordable housing
Manufactured homes have long faced stigma and been confined to trailer parks. But with updated designs – and zoning codes – more suburbs and cities are turning to them for affordable housing.