Posts tagged Housing Prices
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List ranks Washington region as “among best places to save fastest for a down payment.” Wait, what?
The Washington DC region is only a great place to be a first-time homebuyer if you’re a certain type of household looking for a certain type of home. Keep reading…
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A library replacement offers a unique opportunity to build housing in Maryland’s Chevy Chase. Cue the usual opposition
Chevy Chase, Md. is wealthy, lacks affordable housing options, and has a history of exclusion. Now some residents are opposing building housing alongside a library reconstruction project. Keep reading…
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National links: Is this what a housing bubble looks like?
The housing affordability crisis has a lot of people wondering if we’re seeing a repeat of the aughts. Design can make cities less stressful. Electric vehicles are heavy, and that has consequences. Keep reading…
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What Amazon’s $2 billion housing equity fund could mean for Arlington
As Amazon builds out its headquarters in Crystal City, Arlington is facing an affordable housing crunch. Will Amazon’s new housing fund help? Keep reading…
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How can we talk about housing after COVID-19?
Housing has been a reliably zeitgeisty topic, nationally and in DC, for several years. Discussions about it get heated. It’s combative! It’s intensified, just like everything else, by COVID-19! So many people—residents, advocates, experts, elected officials—are stakeholders in how housing works. Given that, what are we all going to say about it now? Keep reading…
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The region urgently needs more homes. Why not adopt housing targets—with teeth?
The region needs to build 374,000 housing units by 2030. Most of them—preferably, three-quarters of them—need to be affordable. Otherwise, housing costs will ascend from merely expensive to stratospheric, tons of households (about 220,000) will be displaced, and the economy might slow down to a sludge. Keep reading…
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National links: Are we at the end of the age of driving?
Cars have grown to outnumber people in the US over the past 100 years, but the automobile industry has been a heavy burden on society. Large and slow-moving storms can be deadlier in areas with sprawl. Can vacancy taxes bring down the costs of homes in some areas? Keep reading…
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Events: “Generation Priced Out” book talk, rail happy hour, and more
Concerned about the future of urban America? Randy Shaw’s Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing low- and middle-income people out of urban America. Keep reading…
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What housing does the District’s workforce need?
Increasingly, DC's workforce is comprised of either high-income or low-income jobs, with few middle-income jobs available. Among DC’s most common occupations, 40% are low wage jobs that do not pay enough to cover DC’s high housing prices. Keep reading…
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They did the math: Amazon will barely impact our already supercharged housing market
Researchers have found that the influx of Amazon employees will not significantly affect the housing supply, though the region’s housing costs will likely remain some of the most expensive in the country. That's a key finding from George Mason University’s Fuller Institute, which published a study that looks at the impact of Amazon’s HQ2 on the Washington region’s housing. Keep reading…