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CityLab: Can Silicon Valley Disrupt How We Build?
From the end of the Second World War until a few years ago, when it cooled off, productivity surged across…
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CityLab: Where the House-Price-to-Income Ratio Is Most Out of Whack
The rule of thumb long used by real estate agents and homebuyers is that you can afford a house if…
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CityLab: There Will Be No Exit From California’s Housing Hell
The recent defeat of SB 827—California State Senator Scott Wiener’s bill that would have legalized apartment construction in area’s well…
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CityLab: The Case for Preserving Mobile Homes
Today, about 40,000 mobile home parks exist across the United States. They were critical to filling housing shortages during World…
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CityLab: HUD May Push New Work Requirements for Public Housing Residents
The Trump administration may introduce minimum work requirements for some recipients of housing aid, while raising rents for others, according…
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CityLab: Fire Damage to California’s Homes Isn’t as Random as It Seems
In the midst of the many wildfire emergencies that have faced California this year, it can often seem that the way houses burn, or don’t,…
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CityLab: Severe Housing Needs May Return to Foreclosure-Crisis Levels
A new report released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development this month shows that the number of…
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CityLab: Rent Is Affordable to Low-Wage Workers in Exactly 12 U.S. Counties
For millions of Americans, housing costs are perversely mismatched to hourly wages. In 2017, the average U.S. worker would need…
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CityLab: California’s Legal Assault On NIMBYs Begins
California Democrats are uniting against a common enemy who they believe is making residents miserable and imperiling the state’s future.…