Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JULY 10, 2023
Similar proposals were made for some libraries in DC--the West End Library site was redeveloped as high income housing, and high quality affordable housing was built on H Street NE on the site of a modular, dinky library (" All-Affordable Apartment Building Headed to H Street NE ," NBCWashington).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 30, 2023
Relatedly, in 2008, Saffron wrote that the city's newest hospital building was designed for the suburbs, not the city (" Penn got a trophy, not a triumph, in hospital design "). Houston has the highest rate of uninsured residents in the nation, according to a press release from UH.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 10, 2023
In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. This all ended in 2008, when even the most ardent GSE defenders in Congress went quiet as the two companies collapsed into conservatorship.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
3] Focusing on owner-occupied housing, house prices have increased faster than wages from 2016 (when they reached their pre-2008 peak level) through early 2020, reducing affordability. Specifically, from when prices reached their pre-2008 peak level (2016 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic hit (2020 Q1), prices increased by 24.3
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