Tag: Housing
An open letter on rental housing reform
John Watson, The Conversation
Following a review of the New South Wales Residential Tenancies Act 2010 in 2016 and extended consultations, the NSW government has...
Is bigger really better?
Alexandra Staub, Pennsylvania State University
The United States is facing a housing crisis: Affordable housing is inadequate, while luxury homes abound. Homelessness remains a persistent...
Ben Carson’s effort to ‘reform’ housing safety net would deepen poverty...
Alex Schwartz, The New School
The Trump administration recently proposed fundamental changes to how the federal government helps low-income families pay for housing.
Housing and...
The world needs to build more than two billion new homes...
Sean Smith, Edinburgh Napier University
By the end of this century, the world’s population will have increased by half – that’s another 3.6 billion people....
Mortgage interest deduction is a terrible way to help middle-class homeowners
Gil B. Manzon Jr., Boston College
Republican lawmakers’ plans to rewrite the tax code would make it harder for most Americans to take advantage of...
Gentrification? Bring it
Jonathan Wynn, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Andrew Deener, University of Connecticut
In July, a group of long-time, mostly Latino residents of Los Angeles’s Boyle...
Wall Street landlords are chasing the American dream – here’s what...
Desiree Fields, University of Sheffield; Alex Schafran, University of Leeds, and Zac Taylor, University of Leeds
Owning a family home in the suburbs has been...
Why Detroit exploded in the summer of 1967
Jeffrey Horner, Wayne State University
When most people see the movie “Detroit,” it’ll likely be their first encounter with the events of July 1967, when...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
