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The newest episode of #UCLAHousingVoice just dropped, and if you ever wanted to go deep on how inclusionary zoning can help – or hinder – affordable development, here's your chance!

In a compelling article by Conor Dougherty in The New York Times, we're reminded that the affordable housing crisis is a widespread challenge across the United States, not just localized to specific cities like Seattle. Read more about what is being done to help increase affordable housing in our latest blog post.

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UNPACKING MY LIBRARY #3 The New Urban Crisis: Gentrification, Housing Bubbles, Growing Inequality and What We Can Do About It. Richard Florida. One World. 2017. In The New Urban Crisis, Florida reflects on his former conclusions to address issues of inequality and segregation, suggesting that the new crisis he defines is a fundamental feature of large, dense, wealthy, educated, politically liberal metropolitan areas. Florida outlines what he defines as a ‘new urban crisis’ experienced in cities across the world, and establishes new proposals for urban governance. 

APPLYING A "HOUSING JUSTICE LENS" TO TRANSFORM POLICY & PRACTICE Love this, sourced from@ World habitat (recently published paper, @camilacocina & @xapsan@IIED) 👀 Yes. we need to apply a "housing justice" lens that can open up new creative opportunities for policy & practice and which creates fairer housing systems. This paper discusses how addressing this crisis through a ‘housing justice’ lens can open up areas of intervention and transformation for policy and practice that can contest unfair and unsustainable housing systems. It presents four propositions for a justice lens: anti-discriminatory housing policy and practice; radically democratic forms of housing production; housing as an infrastructure for better cities; and expanded visions for housing futures Read this great paper 👇 https://bit.ly/4bnoj2S

This study highlights how inclusionary zoning negatively impacts housing. If we want to make housing more affordable, we need to focus on increasing supply by removing barriers to building market-rate housing, and use public money to subsidize rent for those that need it. #affordablehousing https://lnkd.in/gHkveGrb

Check out this important research on pressures related to preserving naturally-occuring affordable housing in Chicago in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's newest issue of their Cityscape journal. 🏙 🏡 🌎 I created the maps in this piece as part of my work at the Institute for Housing Studies (IHS) at DePaul University! Special thanks to Sarah Duda and Geoff Smith for this awesome opportunity and Yiwen Jiao and Evelyn Ryan for their great work on this too. Head to page 129 to read the full article 'Assessing How Gentrification and Disinvestment-Related Market Pressures Drive the Loss of Small Multiunit Housing in Chicago Neighborhoods'

How has redlining impacted affordable housing today? Nathan Connolly defines redlining in our short documentary, Unconventional Affordable Housing: Yes In My Backyard. Nathan is a Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Watch the full video here: https://ow.ly/6jBC50SB4HI #affordablehousing #redlining #housingforall

Tune in today (Wednesday) at noon to this important discussion of hardship and housing!

Data analysis is essential for building affordable and supportive housing in the communities that need it the most. We're grateful to the New York Housing Conference for their new tool that ranks NYC Council Districts by affordable housing production to keep elected officials accountable. Check out this great new tracking tool here: https://lnkd.in/eFtwAy_K  #NYCHousingTracker #affordablehousing #supportivehousing #SayYestoHousing