Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
1 October 2021
Salinas, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Over 120 hotels and motels have been converted into affordable housing developments in California, housing 8,260 people who were previously experiencing homelessness. Known as Homekey, The state-funded program was ini...
29 September 2021
Paris, France
Text
1500-3000 Words
Old and neglected housing contribute to climate change because they run on fossil fuels. In New York, outdated heating systems waste two-thirds of energy. The New York City Housing Authority is not only trying to cre...
7 May 2021
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
Residents at a subsidized nonprofit family housing complex organized to address safety and drug-use issues that began with the pandemic. Residents use a Facebook chat to communicate and will often warn each other of s...
20 April 2021
Hem, France
Text
800-1500 Words
Inspired by the Dutch concept of “Energiesprong,” or “energy jump,” a developer in France retrofitted a group of townhouses for social housing to be more environmentally friendly. They installed polyurethane facades t...
30 March 2021
Paris, France
Text
1500-3000 Words
Paris Habitat, the city’s main social housing agency, used hempcrete — a concrete-like mixture of hemp, lime, and water — as insulation in one of its apartment complexes. This material helps maintain temperature and r...
9 March 2021
Stockton, California, United States
Multi-Media
Under 3 Minutes
Rent relief payments in California are helping public housing residents pursue full-time employment. The Jobs-Plus initiative provides payments that are conditional on enrolling in job training and placement programs....
5 February 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Apartments at Front Flats, a new residential building in Philadelphia, is powered by 492 solar panels that are wrapped around the building. The point: to demonstrate that developers can design buildings that are energ...
12 January 2021
Central Falls, Rhode Island, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A small public housing authority in Rhode Island took the initiative to develop a methodology to administer the COVID-19 vaccine once the city began to offer the vaccine publicly. While a significant number of the res...
14 December 2020
Houston, Texas, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Houston's effort to significantly decrease homelessness was successful due to the overhaul of its previous system which was disjointed, had too many services gaps, and often duplicated services. The new system provide...
22 October 2020
Singapore
Text
1500-3000 Words
Singapore's Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP) has prevented ethnic enclaves in the city-state through the use of quotas. The four recognized ethnicities cannot surpass the set quotas in public residential buildings, whi...
The Boston Globe
Jasmine Nicole Olivier
2 October 2020
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Over the four decades that a major Boston public housing development was run by a tenant management corporation (TMC), residents' safety and relations with police improved in ways that serve as lessons today as gun vi...
11 September 2020
Johannesburg, South Africa
Text
800-1500 Words
The South African government has provided free apartments to millions of people since the end of apartheid, in part as a way to address structural inequalities rooted in apartheid. The program has been a lifeline for ...
Law at the Margins
Joseph Young
Robert Warren
30 August 2020
Washington D.C., United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Washington D.C. has decreased the number of people experiencing homelessness through the implementation of its permanent supportive housing programs. The 'housing first' initiatives prioritize providing permanent hous...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
James E. Causey
7 August 2020
Milwaukee, Minnesota, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity provides a comprehensive approach to providing affordable housing in seven counties across Minneapolis and St.Paul. The large area it serves allows families to move into either urb...
15 July 2020
Athens, Greece
Text
800-1500 Words
Athens's distinctive apartment buildings, known as polikatoikia, have unintentionally solved problems most cities grapple with. The housing complexes have given rise to a city that has socio-economic integration, dece...
8 July 2020
Singapore
Text
1500-3000 Words
Affordable housing in Singapore has resulted in one of the highest rates of home ownership in the world. In 1964 the government embraced a "Home Ownership for the People Scheme" in which it gave lower and middle-incom...
19 May 2020
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In New York City, where the average census response rate is only 49 percent, the city's largest co-operative housing complex achieved over a 70 percent response rate, well above the 40 percent rate typical in the co-o...
6 May 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC), a San Francisco nonprofit, is helping those living in single-room occupancy (SRO) or public housing access food safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. The CCDC has part...
7 April 2020
Houston, Texas, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
The Houston Community Land Trust (CLT) is a nonprofit that sells affordable homes in Houston to help resist gentrification. They keep it affordable by only selling the houses on top of the land and not the land itself...
23 March 2020
United Kingdom
Text
1500-3000 Words
Rising rents are being addressed through a variety of interventions in cities around the world. While rent control has worked in some cities, it has been a lesson of what does not work for others. Policies to keep ren...
Next City
Gregory Scruggs
24 January 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In 2018, a per-employee tax levied on Amazon and other Seattle businesses making over $20 million a year was struck down by council members with unfavorable polling. In 2020, that same referendum is being brought back...
San Francisco Public Press
Laura Wenus
20 December 2019
San Francisco, California, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Affordable housing in San Francisco is becoming more and more unattainable. When the landlord tried to change its status to not be rent-controlled to not, a group of residents at said building banded together with a n...
13 November 2019
Rwanda
Text
800-1500 Words
Rwanda is taking a controversial approach to tackling poverty within its borders—literally moving people from rural areas into model villages. On one hand, it alleviates the first markers of poverty: having a roof ove...
22 October 2019
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Documentary
Over 15 Minutes
The long-term results of the Gautreaux program, which was intended to reduce poverty, show upward mobility for children of families that were involved in the initiative. The experiment in desegregating neighborhoods l...
Bloomberg CityLab
Lizabeth Cohen
21 October 2019
New York, New York, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
A plan forged in New York City suburbs in the 1970s addressed urban renewal and income inequality by creating low-income housing dwellings in nine separate towns outside of the city. Though the "Fair Share" program fa...
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