No one did more to build the non-profit housing sector in the United States than Bob Whittlesey, who died on February 27 of this year at the age of 101.
Contrary to the…
Observing how creative practitioners have addressed the knotty problems involved in providing good homes to people who otherwise could not afford them is one of the great…
Alexander von Hoffman, Matthew Arck
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June 13, 2019
This brief describes five novel and replicable programs that are providing housing for low- and moderate-income Americans. These programs were created by collaborations of…
Between 2010 and 2013 the leaders of five nonprofit housing organizations located in western New York State met together to form an alliance of their organizations. All…
In recent years the skyrocketing housing prices in major cities in the United States have raised the specter of driving out people who cannot afford to pay the increasingly…
A history of affordable housing policy in the United States, and efforts to preserve affordable housing units in recent decades.
Starting in the 1960s, the United…
Now that we have reached the half-century mark since President Lyndon Johnson began passing legislation to achieve his vision of a Great Society, it is worth remembering one…
Even people in the housing field are not always sure what affordable housing is, and what it means to preserve it. Generally speaking, “affordable housing” connotes any…
W12-9: How and why American housing policy got so complicated are questions scholars have largely neglected to answer. Historians, for their part, have conceived…
As the United States continues to recover from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, it is worthwhile to consider the ways Americans responded to similar…
