Housing Supply

Houston's housing market is chugging along, although one of the area's key industries is struggling.

August 16, 2015 - Houston Chronicle

Lafayette provides a case study of the San Francisco Bay Area housing market.

August 15, 2015 - Contra Costa Times

An article in Governing argues that increased housing supply in Bricknell has helped keep down the costs of housing in adjacent neighborhoods like Overtown and Little Havana.

June 29, 2015 - Governing

Blogger Shane Phillips writes that San Francisco has two possible responses to its housing crisis: increase supply to accommodate newcomers, or hunker down and promote only subsidized housing. Both, he says, are lousy. Other coastal cities, beware.

June 14, 2015 - Better Institutions

Los Angeles will raise its minimum wage incrementally to $15 an hour by 2020. But with an inadequate supply of new housing, will this new spending power simply enable landlords to charge more? Some economists say yes.

May 28, 2015 - KPCC

A Wall Street Journal trend piece argues that a shift toward luxury apartments in cities across the United States is driving up the cost of rent throughout the market.

May 22, 2015 - The Wall Street Journal

New data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development shows that the rental market is improving for the most at-risk populations in the country.

May 6, 2015 - The Washington Post - Wonkblog

The Los Angeles media has recently turned their attention to housing, in a city ranked by some measures as the least affordable market in the country.

January 13, 2015 - KPCC

New York City's luxury housing market has, rather suddenly, hit the brakes. Crain's New York Business surveys the landscape.

January 6, 2015 - Crain's New York Business

SPUR didn't give a grade to the Bay Area on housing affordability in its most recent issue of The Urbanist, but it does provide a thorough overview of the current and ongoing efforts to make housing more affordable in the region.

December 20, 2014 - The Urbanist

Even if new housing is expensive, it can reduce overall housing prices by causing existing units to become more affordable.

September 17, 2014 - Michael Lewyn

Jim Russell is again taking to the pulpit to dissent from the popular view that supply problems are causing housing affordability crises in cities like New York and San Francisco.

August 14, 2014 - Pacific Standard

Robert Selna, a land use and real estate attorney, pens a letter to the editor arguing for Oakland to develop specific and aggressive housing development policies.

June 30, 2014 - SFGate

The findings of the Housing Works survey, released earlier this month, suggest that the cost of housing is a pervasive concern among Americans, even if Americans aren't sure they support the kinds of measures necessary to improve the problem.

June 23, 2014 - Governing

New data from the Houston Association of Realtors shows the end of an "unrelenting string of positive monthly home sales data." According to the Houston Chronicle, the group "attributed the decline to this area’s lack of housing inventory."

June 12, 2014 - Houston Chronicle

A dissenting argument claims that the efforts of "affluent urban pioneers" to increase supply in the most desirable urban areas will do more harm than good.

April 29, 2014 - The Corner Side Yard

Curtis Johnson details an unexpected trend in downtown Motor City, where a spike in housing demand may hint at the comeback promised in Chrysler's famed Superbowl ad.

July 7, 2012 - Citiwire

Stephen Smith points to new economic research highlighting the dramatic effect of rent control on the value of nearby properties. Hint: it keeps prices down everywhere.

July 3, 2012 - Market Urbanism

Recent figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show big growth in the Sun Belt of the Southwest. This piece from The New York Times looks into why.

December 30, 2010 - The New York Times