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WEBReckoning With Root Shock: How Understanding Urban Renewal Prepares Us for This Moment. October 23, 2024 – October 23, 2024 1:00pm – 2:00pm EASTERN. In honor of its 20th anniversary, this webinar will revisit Dr. Mindy Fullilove’s book Root Shock to reckon with the past and reimagine how to support communities facing displacement today.
Modular Construction Is on the Rise. Can It Build High-Quality ...
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Meanwhile, costs to build housing have increased nearly 29% since 2020, according to the National Association of Home Builders, an industry trade group. The expense to develop affordable housing has risen alongside this general increase. Affordable housing development can cost from $100,000 to $750,000 per …
How Street Vendors Finally Made Street Food Legal in California
WEBOct 4, 2022 · Los Angeles City Council did finally pass a motion to legalize and regulate street vendors in April 2018. Before it could be implemented, in September 2018, then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Safe Sidewalk Vending Act, sponsored by then-State Sen. Ricardo Lara. Ricardo Lara holds Caridad Vazquez shoulders as she talks.
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 ...
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 ...
Using Vacant Commercial Spaces As Affordable Artist Studios Is a …
WEBJul 22, 2024 · Artists pay between $2.50 to $4.50 a square foot, including all utilities, for spaces that range from 80 to 250 square feet. Artists must commit to working on at least one piece a month and being in the space at least one day a week between noon and 5 p.m. Prior to the pandemic, Zero Empty Spaces co-founders Evan Snow and Andrew Martineau had ...
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 …
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Housing in Brief: What is Social Housing? - Next City
WEBFeb 21, 2020 · The Community Service Society in New York has published an explainer on its website. “The term social housing is commonly used to describe a range of housing ownership, subsidy, and regulation models in Europe, South America and elsewhere around the globe,” the report says. “These models often go far …