Search Results for: "housing crisis"
Cherelle Parker Can Solve Our Housing Crisis
The presumptive Mayor-elect has pledged to build 30,000 new affordable homes. Philly 3.0’s engagement editor lays out how a growth machine agenda could help her get there
By Jon GeetingAn Urgent Proposal to Solve our Housing Crisis
Drexel’s Metro Finance head calls for a radical rethink of the way we ensure Americans have homes
By Bruce KatzThe West Philly Housing Crisis That Was Utterly Avoidable
The UC Townhomes fiasco features a wealthy, easy-to-blame institution; fact-challenged protestors; an elected official who may be in over her head, and a compromise solution everybody seems hell bent on ignoring
By Larry PlattGuest Commentary: The Answer to Our Housing Crisis
A building industry official contends City Council’s proposal for “inclusionary housing” will make it harder to increase Philly's stock of affordable homes. But, he says, there is a solution: Building on public land
By Mo RushdyThe Housing Opportunity Hidden in Plain Sight
When it comes to finding more affordable homes for their residents, Drexel’s Metro Finance Head says, cities should look at current housing stock, offer incentives — and move fast.
By Bruce Katz and Andrew GibbsAn Answer to Our Transit Crisis
Kansas City, Austin and California are using a new kind of federal-city partnership to radically reform transit in their regions. Drexel’s Metro Finance lays out what Philly can learn from them
By Bruce KatzIdeas We Should Steal: Grassroots Housing Reparations
A rapper-turned-community activist is preserving Black wealth in Portland, the Whitest big city in America, by helping homeowners repair — and therefore stay — in their homes
By Roxanne Patel ShepelavyIdeas We Should Steal: Affordable Workforce Housing as Economic Development
People are no longer moving for work; they’re moving for workforce housing, says Drexel’s Metro Finance Director. Let’s take advantage as cities have in Oklahoma and California
By Bruce Katz and Michael Saadine