Topic: affordable housing
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The Big Fix
The Urbanist Case for Keeping D.C.'s Height Restrictions
It’s bad enough that our suburbs look like everywhere, USA. Let’s not let that happen to our central city.
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Urban Wonk
Meet the Man Who 'Repairs the Fabric of Communities'
This developer has done more than almost anyone else to promote green affordable housing.
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A Global View of Architectural Conservation: The Best #CityReads of the Week
Our weekly look back at the stories you may have missed.
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England's Novel Idea for Funding Affordable Housing
Officials propose using the money from the sale of radio frequencies to pay for new housing stock.
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Videos
The Right Way to Turn Art Into Economic Development
Project Row Houses transforms Depression-era homes into a community art museum and affordable housing.
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Is China's Affordable Housing Going to Those Who Need It?
As China works towards big housing goal, questions arise about who's benefitting.
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George Lucas's Lesson to NIMBYs: Careful What You Wish For
The filmmaker lost a long-running zoning battle with his California neighbors. Now they may get something they want even less than a movie studio in their back yard: low-income housing.
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Olympics 2012
Can the Olympics Bring Affordable Housing to London?
By 2031, this summer's Olympic site should be a dense checkerboard of housing and parkland.
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Urban Wonk
In Renton, a Model for Green Revitalization
An exemplary development with first-class green infrastructure and mixed-income housing.
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Argument of the Day: Want Affordable Housing? Look to the Zoning Code
Activists should think beyond public subsidies.
