Material-cost inflation, anti-building rules, NIMBY attitudes, and barriers to innovation have created a housing-affordability crisis.
Across the country, communities are starkly divided, with African Americans living in one section and whites living in another, and a lot of people seem to be okay with that.
In today’s economy, well-off people live in big cities, while everyone else gets pushed out. Bringing new Amazon offices to Virginia and New York could hasten the process.
Even before the pandemic, three in five renters could not come up with $400 in an emergency. How are they supposed to get by now?
The city’s new public-housing rule aims to prevent low earners from being priced out.