Brookhaven’s proposed Buford Highway Overlay zoning district will include an affordable housing mandate and apartment tenant protections as city leaders try to address gentrification of the corridor known for its international restaurants and immigrant residents.
City of Atlanta releases housing affordability action plan, commits to $1Billion for affordable housing preservation or creation.
The city of Atlanta issued a “Housing Affordability Action Plan” on June 25, this article lists the plan’s main goals and “initiatives”.
Evanston, IL, Affordable Housing Demolition Tax
Evanston, Illinois, has created a demolition tax. Revenue raised from this tax is contributed to the Affordable Housing Fund for the creation, preservation, maintenance and improvement of affordable housing within the city.
Zipcode Destiny: The Persistent Power Of Place And Education
Hidden Brain Podcast discusses early variables in your life, from the quality of your kindergarten teacher to the neighborhood you grew up in, and the can lasting effects it can have on economic mobility.
Demolition to displacement and race in Atlanta’s northern suburbs Oct 2018
A look at the movement from exclusion of hispanics and blacks in Northern Atlanta neighborhoods, to expulsion through exclusionary zoning, auto-mobility, and anti-crowding ordinances, colorblind justification.
Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot
A number of major U.S. Cities are making a shift in single family zoning amid mounting crises over housing affordability, racial inequality and climate change, and beginning to incorporate more required workforce housing.
