Furman Center in the News

Date Title Source
08/23/10 Beyond the Poverty Line (View PDF) Stanford Social Innovation Review
08/18/10 Mortgage Role for U.S. Is Affirmed The New York Times
08/18/10 Treasury, Lenders Seek to Keep Government Role in Housing Fix San Francisco Chronicle
08/17/10 Geithner: Housing System Needs Government Support Marketwatch
08/17/10 Geithner Calls for Housing Finance Reform The Financial Times
08/01/10 Purchasing Power Changes Hands (View PDF) The Real Deal
08/01/10 Brokers Get Creative to Attract House Hunters The Real Deal
07/25/10 The Roller-Coaster Ride Called a Short Sale (View PDF) The New York Times
07/01/10 Like a Broken Record: 100 Years of Busts (View PDF) The Real Deal
06/23/10 Low-income housing development fuels economic gains in distressed neighborhoods, stabilizes families (View PDF) Local Initiatives Support Corporation
06/23/10 Affordable Housing Pays Off for City Crain’s New York Business
06/21/10 A Housing Price Collapse in Queens New York is Almost Certain (View PDF) Real Estate Channel
06/15/10 Jonathan Miller Podcast Interview with Furman Center Resident Research Fellow Mark Willis Housing Helix
06/10/10 Rep. Clarke Applauds the Passage of the Federal Housing Administration Reform Act (View PDF) Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke
06/10/10 Higher Ground (View PDF) The Wall Street Journal
05/27/10 New Construction Is Farther From Green Space (View PDF) The New York Times
05/21/10 City Foreclosures Climb In First Quarter (View PDF) Wall Street Journal
05/17/10 Saga of the Worthless Condo (View PDF) City Limits
05/09/10 Demand Grows for F.H.A. Mortgages (View PDF) The New York Times
04/22/10 Bloomberg’s PlaNYC Not So Green, Critics Say (View PDF) NBC
04/21/10 How ‘Transit-Oriented Development’ Will Put More New Yorkers in Cars (View PDF) Gotham Gazette
04/11/10 The Most Livable Neighborhoods in New York New York Magazine
04/01/10 How Credible is Case-Shiller? (View PDF) The Real Deal
03/29/10 E. Flatbush is Rail Far (View PDF) NY Post
03/25/10 Study: New York Building Boom Less Dramatic Than in Other Cities (View PDF) WNYC
03/25/10 City Added 170,000 Housing Units During Boom Crain’s New York Business
03/25/10 Housing Boom Brings 170K New Units to NYC (View PDF) The Real Deal
03/25/10 Study Shows Building Boom Before Market Crashed (View PDF) New York Times
03/22/10 Study Finds Racial Disparity in Rezonings (View PDF) WNYC
03/22/10 Despite Much Rezoning, Scant Change in Residential Capacity (View PDF) New York Times
03/15/10 Mentally Ill Look for Home in NYC Metro
03/14/10 Picking Up the Pieces Crain’s
02/22/10 City’s New Plan on Affordable Housing: Build Less, Preserve More (View PDF) The New York Times
02/22/10 Bloomberg Shifts Affordable Housing Focus (View PDF) NY1
02/22/10 Bloomberg Retools Affordable MF Program Globe Street
02/18/10 Shaping the Next New York: The Promise of Bloomberg’s Rezonings Streetsblog
02/10/10 Where Did the Stimulus Funds Go? (View PDF) El Diario
02/09/10 Jesse Jackson Walks Through Overtown for Change WLRN
02/08/10 Bushwick is Dying (View PDF) El Diario
02/07/10 The Bigger Little Italy (View PDF) New York Times
02/07/10 City Slow to Recover from Housing Market Collapse; Buys Just 8 Homes Out of Promised 115 (View PDF) New York Daily News
02/02/10 Jumping on the REO Wagon (View PDF) The Real Deal
01/20/10 Mayor Bloomberg Falls Short on 2009 Goals, Ready to Try Again with State of the City Address on Tap (View PDF) NY Daily News
01/17/10 Making History in a Brooklyn Neighborhood (View PDF) New York Times
01/15/10 REOs Rising Along With Foreclosures Brownstoner
01/14/10 Number of Bank-Owned Homes in New York Rising (View PDF) New York Observer
01/14/10 NYC Foreclosed Homes Owned by Lenders Spikes (View PDF) Crain’s New York Business
01/14/10 Foreclosures Draw Flippers, Study Shows (View PDF) New York Times
01/01/10 Higher-priced Homes Get Turned on Their Heads The Real Deal
01/01/10 Bronx Distress Hits Middle-income Areas Hardest (View PDF) The Real Deal
01/01/10 A Manhattan Apartment for the Price of a Car? (View PDF) The Real Deal
12/22/09 Jobless Middle-Class New Yorkers Struggle to Get By (View PDF) Wall Street Journal
12/21/09 The Top Stories of 2010 (View PDF) Gotham Gazette
12/13/09 Unwelcome Mat Out for Project to House Chronically Homeless (View PDF) Dallas Morning News
12/11/09 New York Gets Crushed in Year of Record Lows (View PDF) The Real Deal
12/06/09 The Williamsburg Elixir (View PDF) NY Magazine
12/03/09 Bronxites Want Action on Foreclosure Crisis (View PDF) Norwood News
11/30/09 Foreclosures Continue to Threaten Neighborhoods (View PDF) Gotham Gazette
11/30/09 Following New York’s Foreclosure Frenzy (View PDF) Real Deal
11/26/09 The Neediest Cases; Extending a Hand to Those Hurt in the Subprime Mess (View PDF) The New York Times
11/23/09 Race and Space: Segregation and Foreclosure (View PDF) Huffington Post
11/20/09 Bloomberg Busts Out the Cash (View PDF) The Indypendent
11/19/09 Study: Subprime Loans Went to Minority-Heavy Neighborhoods (View PDF) New York Observer
11/19/09 Study Shows Link Between Segregation and Subprime Loans (View PDF) New York Times
11/16/09 For Homeowners, Promised Help Rarely Arrives City Limits
11/04/09 Groups Urge Opening of Vacant Condos to the Poor (View PDF) The New York Times
10/31/09 Where 30 Is Ancient, Youthful at 80 (View PDF) The New York Times
10/27/09 Great Houses of New York: The River Club, the Best Address, Part III (View PDF) Huffington Post
10/19/09 Behind a Stolid Facade, The Whole Nation’s Crisis (View PDF) City Limits
10/15/09 As City Adds Housing for Poor, Market Subtracts It (View PDF) The New York Times
10/05/09 Affordable Housing, Not Included (View PDF) Gotham Gazette
10/02/09 Foreclosure Catching Up to Renters (View PDF) Metro
09/29/09 Rezoning New York (View PDF) The Brian Lehrer Show
09/28/09 Holding On to Stability in Queens (View PDF) The New York Times
09/27/09 The Micro-Economy of Union Square (View PDF) New York Magazine
09/01/09 Real Trouble Lies in Rising Default Rates (View PDF) The Real Deal
09/01/09 Breaking the Co-op Barrier (View PDF) The Real Deal
08/13/09 Banks Abandon Foreclosed Homes CNN
08/12/09 Immigrant Neighborhoods in New York Continue to Reel From Mortgage Foreclosures and Job Losses (View PDF) Feet in 2 Worlds
08/12/09 Condo Foreclosures Up, More Still Ahead (View PDF) Metro
07/06/09 Jonathan Miller interviews Vicki Been The Housing Helix podcast with Jonathan Miller
06/25/09 Mortgage Scams Still a Threat (View PDF) Your Nabe
06/24/09 Harlem Wants Residents to go Shopping (View PDF) Marketplace
06/16/09 Supreme Change (View PDF) Washington Post
06/09/09 Seminar Offers Advice For Tenants Of Foreclosed Homes NY1
06/08/09 Borough Park Takes it to the Bank (View PDF) Crain’s New York Business
05/21/09 Learning from the Past (View PDF) Community Development Investment Review
05/17/09 The Housing Crisis: Getting a Ground-Level View (View PDF) New York Times
05/16/09 Minorities Affected Most as New York Foreclosures Rise (View PDF) New York Times
05/08/09 “Don’t Put It Here!” Does Affordable Housing Cause Nearby Property Values to Decline? (View PDF) Insights
04/27/09 How to Pick a Neighborhood (View PDF) New York Magazine
04/15/09 Ranking the Village (View PDF) The Villager
04/06/09 Four Neighborhoods Roll with the Punches (View PDF) Crain’s New York Business
04/06/09 Affordable Homeownership and the “$1 Billion Promise” (View PDF) City Limits
03/30/09 Bad News Up North: In a Season of Shrinking Sales Volume, Harlem’s Been Hit Extra-Hard (View PDF) New York Magazine
03/30/09 Small Business: Suffering in Good Times and Bad (View PDF) Gotham Gazette
03/24/09 Buyforeclosedhomes.com? Online Auctions Are Catching On (View PDF) New York Daily News
03/23/09 N.Y. Drivers’ Unexpected Allies: Transit Riders (View PDF) New York Times
03/12/09 Report Reveals Surprises in NYC Real Estate Trend WNYC Radio
03/12/09 Risks, Rewards Found in Former ‘It’ Locales (View PDF) Metro
03/12/09 Foreclosures Rose 7 Percent on Staten Island, Firm Says (View PDF) Staten Island Advance
03/12/09 Long and Short of Gotham (View PDF) New York Post
03/11/09 Past Indicates Little on Home Price Future (View PDF) Crain’s New York Business
03/11/09 Foreclosures and Minorities Nevada Public Radio
03/09/09 Looking for Bottom in N.Y. Real Estate (View PDF) New York Times
02/20/09 Board 1 Opposes Urban Pathways’ Building (View PDF) Queens Gazette
02/20/09 Education Suffers in NY Projects (View PDF) Planetizen
02/20/09 Reshaping the City: Who’s Being Heard—and Why? (View PDF) Gotham Gazette
02/20/09 Subprime Mortgage Wasteland In the Bronx (View PDF) The Village Voice
02/20/09 Housing Plan: The Virtues of Moderation (View PDF) New York Times
02/19/09 Expert: ‘Bold plan’ Will Help Before It’s Too Late Metro
02/18/09 Will You Be Able to Keep Your Home? GRIT TV
02/17/09 New HUD Chief: Simpler Loans, More Private Lending (View PDF) Christian Science Monitor
02/16/09 New HUD Chief Calls for Transparency (View PDF) GlobeSt.com
02/13/09 Donovan Outlines Vision for HUD (View PDF) Affordable Housing Finance
02/13/09 HUD Secretary Unveils Plan to Respond to Housing Crisis (View PDF) Builder
02/13/09 Housing Plan Will Accelerate Loan Modifications, HUD Says (View PDF) Los Angeles Times
02/13/09 A Homecoming for HUD’s New Secretary (View PDF) New York Times
02/13/09 HUD Secretary Calls for Accelerated Loan Modifications (View PDF) Wall Street Journal
02/12/09 The Faces of Foreclosure (View PDF) Queens Courier
02/10/09 Subsidizing Home Buying: Could Be Worse New York Times
02/09/09 Working for a Safer Spring in Brownsville (View PDF) City Limits
02/03/09 Luxe Affordability Marks Green Renewal in the Bronx (View PDF) City Limits
02/03/09 Supportive Housing Faces Down Routine Opposition (View PDF) City Limits
02/01/09 A Foreclosure Freeze Would Ease Their Fears (View PDF) New York Daily News
02/01/09 A Month Free? Rents Are Falling Fast (View PDF) New York Times
01/19/09 As Economy Stalls, Fewer New Yorkers Moving Out of State (View PDF) New York Times
01/19/09 Fed Up & Fighting Foreclosure Angry Group Protests Home Auction (View PDF) New York Daily News
01/16/09 Queens homeowners protest foreclosures (View PDF) Crain’s New York Business
01/15/09 To Avert Blight, City Will Repair and Resell Vacant Homes (View PDF) New York Times
01/15/09 Tenants Face Evictions Amidst Foreclosure Crisis (View PDF) NY1
12/24/08 Board 1 Opposes Urban Pathways’ Building Queens Gazette
12/15/08 Fannie Mae to End Tenant Evictions in Foreclosures The Wall Street Journal
12/15/08 Education Suffers in NY Projects Planetizen
11/23/08 Children Who Live in Public Housing Suffer in School, Study Says (View PDF) New York Times
11/18/08 Homeless Pledge a Real Challenge (View PDF) The Globe and Mail
11/14/08 Home Run: Asian American Homeowners and the Subprime Mortgage Fallout (View PDF) Asian Week
11/09/08 Election Gives Staten Island Housing Market a Jolt (View PDF) Staten Island Advance
11/07/08 Editorial: Good Neighbors (View PDF) The New York Times
11/06/08 Mortgages Plunge by 50% in Some Brooklyn Minority Communities (View PDF) New York Daily News
11/04/08 Evictions Soar as Banks Foreclose on Landlords During Credit Crisis (View PDF) New York Daily News
11/01/08 Could the early 1990s return? (View PDF) The Real Deal
10/28/08 Study: Fewer Mortgages to Latinos, Blacks (View PDF) NBC New York
10/28/08 New Report Finds Blacks, Latinos Hit Hard by Mortgage Crisis (View PDF) NY1
10/28/08 Minorities Hit Hard in Mortgage Crunch (View PDF) New York Daily News
10/27/08 NYC Minorities Receive Fewer Mortgages (View PDF) WNYC Radio
10/27/08 Study Notes Fewer Loans to Hispanics and Blacks (View PDF) New York Times
10/23/08 Expert Q&A: A Downturn for New York Real Estate? (View PDF) New York Times
10/18/08 Door to Door, Foreclosure Knocks Here (View PDF) New York Times
10/15/08 Your Neighbor’s Troubles May Become Your Own (View PDF) New York Times
09/25/08 Does Seeing Green Lead to Seeing Greenbacks? (View PDF) New York Times
09/23/08 Tougher Times Hobble Mayor’s Affordable Housing Ambitions (View PDF) New York Observer
09/19/08 Best Design: West Village (View PDF) Time Out New York
09/10/08 Hip-Hop Mortgage Help New York Metro
08/26/08 Foreclosures Mean Crises for H.I.V. Positive Renters (View PDF) New York Times
08/25/08 Chinatown’s ‘Glorious Flute’ Facing an Unusual Primary Challenge (View PDF) New York Sun
08/25/08 Reshaping the City: Who’s Being Heard—and Why? (View PDF) Gotham Gazette
08/22/08 What You Need to Know Before You Rent (View PDF) New York Times
07/27/08 Growing Pains Come and Go (View PDF) New York Times
07/01/08 Foreclosure Epidemic Skips Big Apple…So Far (View PDF) The Cooperator
06/30/08 Subprime Mortgages and Race: A Bit of Good News May Be Illusory (View PDF) Washington Post
06/30/08 Neighborhoods Bear the Brunt (View PDF) Washington Post
06/22/08 Fighting Foreclosures on Staten Island (View PDF) New York Times
06/22/08 In Confronting the Foreclosure Crisis, a Bill Strikes a Balance (View PDF) New York Times
06/12/08 Not ‘Fore’ Us (View PDF) New York Post
05/28/08 Mixed Use (View PDF) The Villager
05/22/08 Kucinich: Neighborhoods Are Blameless ‘Victims’ in Subprime Crisis (View PDF) Wall Street Journal
05/22/08 Death By ‘Preservation’ (View PDF) New York Post
05/12/08 Nabe Groups Battle to Save Affordable Apartments (View PDF) AM New York
05/01/08 No Bailout for Brownsville (View PDF) The Real Deal
04/30/08 Who Needs Money to Eat? New York Metro
04/25/08 Home Foreclosures’ Subprime Race Rise New York Metro
04/25/08 Is Inclusionary Zoning Providing Our Much Needed Affordable Housing? (View PDF) San Francisco Chronicle
04/17/08 Jamaica Woman Struggles for Home (View PDF) Queens Chronicle
04/15/08 City Foreclosures Threaten Renters (View PDF) New York Daily News
04/15/08 Mortgage lending trends and high rates of foreclosure in New York City (MP3) Bloomberg Radio
04/14/08 NYC Renters Get Foreclosure Blues (View PDF) Crain’s New York Business
04/14/08 Renters Also Hurt by Mortgage Crisis (View PDF) WNYC Radio
04/13/08 Even Renters Aren’t Safe (View PDF) New York Times
04/03/08 Real Estate Slump Sets Brooklyn Back New York Metro
04/02/08 New York and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis (View PDF) New York Times
03/29/08 Rethinking Real Estate (View PDF) New York Times
03/07/08 The City Responds to the Foreclosure Crisis (View PDF) Gotham Gazette
03/04/08 Governor Proposes New Foreclosure Legislation (View PDF) NY1
03/04/08 Spitzer to Present a Plan to Reduce Foreclosures (View PDF) New York Times
03/03/08 Real Estate Revelations: Churches Weigh Deals (View PDF) City Limits
03/03/08 Bill Would Set Foreclosure Moratorium (View PDF) New York Times
03/02/08 God’s Row (View PDF) New York Times
03/01/08 Subprime Crimes From Wall Street to Brooklyn and Beyond (View PDF) The Brooklyn Rail
02/27/08 Housing Market Faces Anxiety from Many Sources (View PDF) Gotham Gazette
02/23/08 Subprime Mortgage Wasteland in the Bronx Village Voice
02/11/08 Options Are Studied Regarding Expected ‘Tsunami of Default’ (View PDF) New York Sun
02/04/08 Helping to Keep Homelessness at Bay as Foreclosures Hit More Families (View PDF) New York Times
01/07/08 Filling New York’s “Vacancies” (View PDF) Gotham Gazette
01/05/08 Unaffordable NY: Tough Choices at $150,000 (View PDF) Crain’s New York Business
12/20/07 Housing Crisis Extends to the Rental Market (View PDF) New York Sun
11/30/07 Being Able to Live Where You Work (View PDF) USA Today
11/11/07 What Market Slump? (View PDF) New York Times
11/10/07 Housing Program on Track Amid Financing Concerns (View PDF) New York Times
11/04/07 No Defense Against Foreclosure (View PDF) Crain’s New York Business
10/17/07 Subprime in Black and White (View PDF) New York Times
10/16/07 FDNY union may put pension cash into affordable apartments (View PDF) New York Daily News
10/15/07 Study Finds Disparities in Mortgages by Race (View PDF) New York Times
10/15/07 Study Finds Black New Yorkers More Likely to Get Subprime Loan NY1
10/03/07 Taking Stock of New York’s Housing (View PDF) Gotham Gazette
09/16/07 Neighborhood Watch (View PDF) New York Magazine
09/15/07 The meaning and impacts of New York City’s low homeownership rate (MP3) Bloomberg Radio
09/12/07 Guests in Own Homes’s: NYC’s Low Owner Rate. (View PDF) New York Post
08/22/07 N.Y. Foreclosure Frenzy (View PDF) New York Post
08/20/07 Not Like It Used To Be (View PDF) City Limits
07/26/07 New Report Could Boost BIDs (View PDF) New York Sun
07/25/07 BIDs Raise Commercial Property Values (View PDF) Crain’s New York Business
06/18/07 NYC ‘Debt’ Reckoning (View PDF) New York Post
06/01/07 Jamaica tops city in foreclosures (View PDF) The Real Deal
05/27/07 In a City Known for Its Renters, a Record Number Now Own Their Homes (View PDF) New York Times
04/26/07 Predatory Lending Fuels Rise in Foreclosures (View PDF) Gotham Gazette
04/24/07 Mayor’s Green Speech Asks to Build 500,000 Units (View PDF) New York Observer
04/15/07 A Most Exclusive Club (View PDF) New York Times
04/12/07 City Home Ownership More Elusive, Report Says New York Metro
04/12/07 Sub-Prime Market Heads Skyward (View PDF) WNYC Radio
04/12/07 Sub-Prime Loan Bubble in City New York Post
04/11/07 NYC Foreclosure Rates Hit Brooklyn, Bronx Hardest (View PDF) Reuters
04/10/07 Slumlord Showdown (View PDF) Village Voice
03/15/07 Mortgage Woes Pass by New York, for Now (View PDF) New York Sun
03/12/07 Crowded Houses WNYC Radio
02/22/07 Housing’s Impact: Need for New Research (View PDF) Gotham Gazette
02/20/07 Affordable Housing Strikes it Rich (View PDF) City Limits
02/19/07 Renting Rooms, Buying a Dream (View PDF) New York Daily News
11/19/06 Building Prosperity (View PDF) New York Times
09/12/06 Housing in New York City—Figuring Out the Big (and Little) Picture (View PDF) Gotham Gazette
06/16/06 Housing Tighter for New Yorkers of Moderate Pay (View PDF) New York Times