Scott Pinyard • 6 min read
All developers have been through it – as new properties are designed and constructed, costs and budgets clash with project needs, wants and pie-in-the-sky wishes. As the design process progresses, a project takes shape that is closely trimmed by budget and time constraints.
Mark Olshaker • 8 min read
YouthBuild’s origin story goes back to 1978, when Dorothy Stoneman, a Harvard-educated civil rights and community activist educator in East Harlem, surveyed the students with whom she worked, asking how they thought they could best improve their neighborhoods if they had some adult support.
Thom Amdur • 4 min read
We cannot deny we have a national housing crisis. A new study commissioned by the National Multifamily Housing Council recently found that the U.S. must add 325,000 new apartments annually to meet rising demand, while the average production over the past four years has only been 244,000 units per year.
Heidi Zimmer • 6 min read
I have enjoyed a long career in affordable housing development and have spent more than a decade working for Artspace, the nation’s largest nonprofit developer for artist housing.
Darryl Hicks • 10 min read
New York City is undergoing the most audacious expansion of affordable housing in a generation, planning to add 200,000 units of new affordable housing over ten years. The idea came from Mayor Bill de Blasio, who announced his Housing New York plan after winning the election in 2014.
Bendix Anderson • 6 min read
After more than a decade’s abandonment, a beloved Chicago landmark has come back to life.
Bendix Anderson • 5 min read
New multifamily housing construction frequently includes a mix of market-rate apartments and low-income units.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
Seattle, WA—The rise of micro apartments in urban America’s strongest real estate markets is often branded as a hot new trend. But really, it is a reenactment of the way U.S. cities have long worked.
Mark Olshaker • 12 min read
In the early 1970s, the well-heeled residents of Aspen and Telluride, CO, faced a problem. Though they were often part-timers from the two coasts and other major cities who spent only weeks at a time in the two ski resort towns, their presence had priced out the very people they needed to run the towns and local businesses.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
High housing costs are an urban American problem, and there is boundless debate on how to address it. Should developers be allowed to build unfettered, or be restricted on the prices they charge and number of units they erect? Should individual buyers compete in open markets, or get government subsidies? Should public officials be Yimby or Nimby?
Thom Amdur • 4 min read
On a taxi ride into Denver I counted 27 cranes – a staggering amount of construction. An article in the local paper reported that developers delivered 3,246 new multifamily apartments in the first quarter alone and 10,000 in total are expected to be delivered by year end! A local real estate executive told me that 100 millennials move to Denver every day.
Darryl Hicks • 9 min read
John Weld Peck has been at the forefront of affordable housing finance in the United States for over 40 years.