Cheap stick framing has led to a proliferation of blocky, forgettable mid-rises—and more than a few construction fires. Bloomberg Businessweek | Justin Fox These buildings are in almost every U.S. city. They range from three to seven stories tall and can stretch for blocks. They’re… Read More »Why America’s New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same
By Matthew Downhour image: wikipedia St. Patrick’s Day The Great Famine, or Great Hunger, in Ireland, which afflicted its people from 1845-49, set off a cascade of Irish immigration to the United States that continued until well into the 20th century. While arriving in most… Read More »The Great Famine, or Great Hunger, in Ireland
Jobie Hill has visited 700 former residences. Many have been abandoned. Some have become storage space. Others are B&Bs. by Sabrina ImblerFebruary 26, 2020 Image: A slave house at Ivy Cliff in Bedford County, Virginia. This site was documented by the Virginia Slave House Project,… Read More »Meet the Iowa Architect Documenting Every Slave House Still Standing
By Bill Batt A Review of Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2019. In the past two decades, a plethora of books and articles have been published, focusing on… Read More »Legacy of the Discovery Doctrine
A coalition of developers and civil rights activists is pushing hard for property tax changes in New York, but the obstacles are formidable. New York City’s property tax formula allows many homes in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to be taxed less than lower-valued properties in other… Read More »A New York Issue That Unites Landlords and the N.A.A.C.P.
Approximately half of the luxury-condo units that have come onto the market in the past five years are still unsold. January 16, 2020 Derek Thompson Staff writer at The Atlantic In Manhattan, the homeless shelters are full, and the luxury skyscrapers are vacant. Such is… Read More »Why Manhattan’s Skyscrapers Are Empty
January 13, 20205:04 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition Eric Westervelt Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart toward his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa, Calif. He’s one of nearly 200 people living… Read More »Sprawling Homeless Camps — Modern ‘Hoovervilles’ — Vex California
Yesim Sayin Taylor / October 21, 2019 The idea of imposing a “land value tax” in the District pops up from time to time. Rick Rybeck at Just Economics has been promoting land value taxes for as far as I could remember. Both the 2013… Read More »Land Value Tax: Can it Work in the District?
By Divya Singh In recent decades, significant increases in the rent-to-income ratios have worsened the affordability of living in cities across the world. A widely promulgated solution is to build more housing in cities. But if there is an excessive demand for housing in cities,… Read More »Property Tax Incentives for New Housing Spurred Gentrification in New York City
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