Topic: affordable housing
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Olympics 2012
London's Newest Export: The Poor?
The Olympics promised a fresh start for deprived East London. But they may end up forcing the poor out.
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Urban Wonk
Affordable Housing Veterans Actually Want to Live In
A new, green housing project in Milwaukee offers veterans access to job training, a fitness center, and free high-speed internet.
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Urban Wonk
How More Expensive Housing Can Actually Cost You Less
An expansive new database could change the way Americans think about where we can afford to live.
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Maps
The American Worker's Housing Affordability Crisis
Nearly a quarter of working households spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing.
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The Most and Least Affordable Housing in America
A new report blames land use restrictions for driving up prices, but there's much more to it than that
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Urban Wonk
Galveston's Post-Hurricane Clean Slate
In the wake of the Hurricane Ike, the city is radically rebuilding its affordable housing to make it greener and more diverse
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Archives
Cleveland's New Deal-Era Public Housing Posters
The Midwest city's approach was much friendlier than New York's
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Archives
How New York City Sold Public Housing in the 1930s
Original New York City Housing Authority posters pitch the projects as the 'solution to infant mortality'
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Designing for Density Doesn't Have to Be Ugly, or Scary
San Francisco-based architect David Baker finds beauty in buildings that house lots of people
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The Big Fix
Vancouver Aims to 'End' Homelessness
In an ambitious new plan, the city pledges to house every resident by 2015
