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Housing recovery led by investors, not homeowners
In Georgia, home prices are rising, and foreclosure rates are among the highest in the country, writes Shabnam Bashiri, an organizer for Occupy Our Homes Atlanta. Banks are offering properties to investors for a fraction of the principal owed on them, and the investors are renting out the homes -- often to their former owners -- and securitizing the profits. That's a recipe for another housing meltdown, Bashiri writes. The Huffington Post
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"Great Reset" blurs line between cities, suburbia
The creative economy is among the forces changing the way we live and work, and as a result, the differences between urban and suburban areas are becoming much less distinct, writes Richard Florida. People are more mobile, in part as a result of the rise in rental housing as an alternative to homeownership. Suburbs have a greater diversity of residents -- no longer just families with children -- and suburban shopping centers are more urban in their design. "The most successful suburban and urban neighborhoods both have good transit, mixed uses, and green spaces; most important, they foster the interactions from which vital communities are built," Florida writes. Urban Land online
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Commentary: Next mayor must address LA's housing problems
Apartment supply is inadequate in Los Angeles, and high demand has driven up prices while incomes have not kept pace, write Raphael Bostic of USC's Bedrosian Center on Governance and Tony Salazar of McCormack Baron Salazar.
The city's next mayor must address the affordable-housing shortage, foreclosure issues and homelessness, they write. Creating a dedicated source of funding for affordable housing and planning carefully around new transit stations are part of the solution, they add. Los Angeles Times (tiered subscription model)
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Housing Matters Spotlight |
Bipartisan Policy Center Housing Commission to release recommendations
The Bipartisan Policy Center Housing Commission, a grantee of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, will release recommendations at 11 a.m. Feb. 25 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The event will be live webcast on the Housing Commission website. The release event will feature Housing Commission co-chairs former Sens. George Mitchell, Kit Bond and Mel Martinez and former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros. The report is the culmination of a 16-month examination of the key issues in housing. Register to join the commission for the release of its recommendations.
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