Building Better Cities - Urban Transportation and Housing News
WEBUpcoming Event. September 17, 2024 1:00pm EASTERN. This session will explore the contributions and impact that immigrant workers make in building and fixing our cities, the biggest labor and human rights issues facing this workforce and the business structures unique to the building and construction industry that perpetuate these conditions.
Urbanist News - Top Stories and In-Depth Features from Next City
WEBUrbanist News. Next City goes beyond pithy headlines and sound bites, publishing original, in-depth features on urbanist news issues critical to our shared future. Our daily stories and in-depth feature articles, written by journalists from around the globe, span a wide range of topics, from transportation and infrastructure, to affordable ...
Five Ways Local Governments Can Spur Development of …
WEBJun 30, 2020 · Here are their five recommendations for creative ways to finance affordable housing. 1. Establish a housing finance agency. A housing finance agency (HFA) is a government entity designed to promote affordable housing by issuing tax-exempt bonds and using the proceeds from the sales to offer low-cost mortgages to …
Events on Urban Issues - Building Better Cities Together - Next City
WEBUpcoming Events. Join the conversation — tune into exciting live events on housing, transportation, arts & culture and other urban issues. In years past, Next City has hosted local, national and international events; beginning in 2019, we added live online events to our mix. Browse upcoming Next City events or watch past events in the library.
Gentrification - Next City
WEBThe history of gentrification in America starts in the 1960s, when the term was coined. Over the next five and a half decades, communities have wielded varying tools and strategies in response to gentrification’s challenges. We think it’s worth a fresh look at the ideas that animate this conversation.
History of Gentrification in America: A Timeline | Next City
WEB1964. The term “gentrification” is coined by Ruth Glass. “One by one, many of the working class quarters have been invaded by the middle class – upper and lower …. Once this process of ‘gentrification’ starts in a district it goes on rapidly until all or most of the working class occupiers are displaced and the whole social ...
Meet the Bill To Ban Hedge Funds From Owning Single-Family …
WEBMar 28, 2024 · While the overall ownership of single-family homes by private equity remains relatively small, a 2022 report by MetLife estimated that by 2030, 7.6 million single-family rental homes in the United States—more than 40 percent—could be owned by corporate investors. According to a November report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) the estimate of 1.6 million housing units ...
Why the ‘Greening’ of Vacant Land Is a Smart Long-Term ... - Next …
WEBJul 2, 2018 · Although the cost of greening or maintaining any individual lot is modest, the vast number of vacant lots in legacy cities means that the total cost can easily become substantial. The Cuyahoga County Land Bank spent $2.23 million from 2011 to 2015 simply to clean and mow the vacant lots it created through demolition.
Transportation - Next City
WEBNext City’s transportation reporting focuses on solutions that make it easier, safer and more affordable to get around in cities. Storylines that fall under this beat include: safe streets; fare-free public transit; the expansion of public transit systems new and old; transit-oriented development (and who benefits); the preservation of legacy public transit systems increasingly under duress ...
In Brooklyn, America’s Gentrification Epicenter, Building On A …
WEBNov 9, 2022 · When New York City emerged as the country’s first epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, community advocates in Brooklyn, the city borough seen by many as “the poster-child for gentrification in America ,” needed to revise their response to their communities amid a new housing emergency. While …