Kind of like the Pruitt-Igoe of the UK, except with a gas explosion and partial collapse, instead of demolishment by dynamite.

By Cassim. Hot-bunking, granny flats, and the speculation on the future housing in NYC.

Stats on the City. Mostly broken down by CB.

SPURA inching toward a consensus on a set of guidelines. Not the most momentous news, but it's something more than gridlock.

Mapping tool from CNT for doing side-by-side comparisons of carbon/expenses/density/etc for US metro areas. Pretty snazzy.

from cup

Calculating the connection of location and transportation costs within the metro area.

The Joint Center's annual report for the most eventful year in housing in decades. This should be an exciting read!

"In one corner, there's the Kensington-based, guerrilla design collective called Onion Flats, known for infiltrating the city with housing that is as sustainable as it is stylish. They're facing tough competition from a partnership between New Urbanist acolyte Sam Sherman and the Hankin Group, a Chester County development company that wants to give up its suburban ways."

"Founded in 1937, Citizens Housing and Planning Council is a non-profit research organization dedicated to improving housing and neighborhood conditions through the co-operative efforts of the public and private sectors." Notes new leadership in 2006, perhaps getting back in the game after drift?

"Cite-Jardin" to the south of Paris

Housing sqftge from the Energy Info Administration.

Amsterdamse Federatie van Woningcorporaties - Federation of Amsterdam Housing Cooperatives. Social housing providers in Amsterdam. Great maps of social housing in the city.

Official site of the largest development underway in Amerstdam. 28.000 housing units on a number of artificial islands.

First exhibition, in the currently un-renovated building. Note that the building has been empty for the better part of a decade. (photos by metroblossom)

Learning from slums. Very clever to present the crossover between Prince Charles, Teddy Cruz and Christian Werthmann.

City will spend $24m on 115 homes, private NP will repair and resell to families making $80-$90K a year. $208,000 a unit seems high - does the city get a slice of the revenue? Who's financing and underwriting the loans? Also- drop in the bucket, given 15-20,000 foreclosures annually for 2007-present

2006, from the Magazine: "The panel asked the taboo question of whether homeownership and the interest deduction were related. It decided that they weren't."

"But about 15 years ago the housing authority, a troubled agency that barely avoided a takeover by the federal government in 2005, leased the gritty three-acre recreation area to a private container storage company. What once was a baseball field is now an expanse littered with shards of glass. And a patch of open space that allowed residents to look out on the river now provides a view of ripped and rusted cargo containers."

Best news from the western front of gentrification in quite a while: "The National Public Housing Museum would be built in a 70-year-old, vacant building at 1322-24 W. Taylor St., the last remaining building from the Depression-era Jane Addams Homes."

"Demographic inversion" proposed as replacement term for gentrification. Question of depth/width/length of the trend. By ed. of Governing mag. Imprecise about inner city vs downtown an what exactly Jane Jacobs wrote.

Programs to deconcentrate poverty blamed for higher crime rates in smaller cities. to read.

data point.

Art + shotgun houses in Houston's Third Ward. Totally awesome group.

Teddy Cruz mixed use/Affordable Housing project in neighborhood on the border

"The greatly elongated historical timeline results in stylistic time gap between the period when the sites and buildings were designed and when they were actually built resulting in the irony of Brutalist buildings being constructed in a Post Modernist ep

"Established in 1967, CHAPA is the only statewide group which represents all interests in the housing field, including non-profit and for-profit developers, homeowners, tenants, bankers, real estate brokers, property managers, government officials, and ot

Yet another roxbury cdc

Fd. '66, builds/preserves low income housing

“[NC] will always, always do affordable housing,” she adds, “but I think we will look at more mixed-income developments in order to bring back the retail and business sector. You need to have expendable income here in order for there to be retail ac

Hope VI all up in your eye.

"Monolithic Dome walls are not only [green], [safe] & [cheap], they're easy & fun to decorate. Yes, curved walls are finally coming into their own. ... Interior designers have discovered the secret of dome decorating: Optical Illusion."

ride the roller coaster of us home prices (1890-pres)

"The biggest value of the house is the shelter it provides..."