Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Last week, Emanuel Satingin wrote on the blog of Americana Development: "A Texas bank is about done demolishing 16 new and partially built houses acquired in Southern California through foreclosure, figuring it was better to knock them down than to...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Take a look at these foreclosure maps of metro Houston and Denver, respectively. In Houston, the larger and darker dots indicate locations with more foreclosures; in Denver, the red areas have the most foreclosures: (There is an interactive...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
One generally thinks of "tent cities" as something that mainly occurs in third world countries where poverty is particularly high and/or refugees flee oppression. But they are now becoming more common in the US, too, as foreclosures and other...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Occidental College professor Peter Dreier has a post up on the Rooflines blog about Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's bold new proposal for affordable housing in LA. In particular, Dreier writes: "Villaraigosa's plan involves bringing together the city's crazy-quilt...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
National Public Radio's Morning Edition has joined the chorus of observers who are finding that sprawl locations may be suffering disproportionately from the turmoil in the nation's housing market:"Morning Edition, April 21, 2008 · Median home prices across the nation...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
In previous entries, I’ve pointed to work by serious academics suggesting that, because of the mortgage crisis and other more structural changes in the housing market, sprawl locations are at more risk of decline than closer-in, more accessible locations. The smart-growth...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield
Fairfax County, VIrginia, is one of the nation's wealthiest. It has a lot of things in abundance, but affordable housing isn't one of them. Fortunately, the cause now has a boost from the chair of the county's board of supervisors,...continued→
