Development

What Market East could learn about enlightened development from ATL’s burgeoning South Downtown

H.O.M.E. is Philadelphia's most ambitious housing investment in decades. A civic infrastructure consultant argues that the city still lacks something essential: an independent account of housing system health.

A program that pays people to relocate to Tulsa, Oklahoma has grown the city’s population and quadrupled its investment. Is this an idea Philly should steal?

Laying out the seven distinct but intersecting problems that boil down to: "How do you build more homes that people can afford?"

Renters — an entire generation who can’t afford to buy a house — deserve economic mobility, too. The solution: Programs that help save money and build equity

Undisclosed in rental leases, add-on costs threaten to upend affordable housing. Seattle and other cities have begun to put a stop to the practice

Research has found that fixing up abandoned homes can make a city safer. The H.O.M.E Plan calls for building and rehabbing 30,000 homes in four years

A former Philly housing director argues that the City has the power it needs to turn abandoned properties into affordable homes — if it is willing to take it

More residents, more workers, more tourists, according to a local housing advocate

Automated systems decide which homeless Philadelphians get housing and who stays on the street — often in ways that feel arbitrary to those waiting