Furman Center in the News

Date Title Source
02/09/16 Americans Less Optimistic About Owning a Home Realtor.com
04/14/16 Tiny Is the New Big: The Next Wave of Space-Defying, Affordable Homes Realtor.com
03/29/13 Section 8 Housing Does Not De-Value Neighborhood, Increase Crime: Study Says (PDF, 784 KB) Realty Today
07/20/15 Why Latino Segregation Is a Growing Worry Republic 3.0
04/11/07 NYC Foreclosure Rates Hit Brooklyn, Bronx Hardest (PDF, 35 KB) Reuters
09/30/11 Higher US mortgage rates coming for costlier homes (PDF, 30 KB) Reuters
02/10/12 Bernanke’s speech to home builders (PDF, 140 KB) Reuters
03/06/13 Superstorm Sandy battered the poor hardest, studies show (PDF, 101 KB) Reuters
06/24/19 Stop building on floodplains, say flood-hit U.S. families Reuters
10/08/12 Crime and Community Development: A Q&A with Ingrid Gould Ellen of NYU (PDF, 491 KB) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation NewPublicHealth
10/22/20 City to answer questions, give update on landlord/tenant assistance, CARES Act funding Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
01/20/14 The Racism That Still Plagues America Salon
03/29/11 The 10 Most Segregated Urban Areas in America (PDF, 41 KB) Salon.com
04/25/08 Is Inclusionary Zoning Providing Our Much Needed Affordable Housing? (PDF, 74 KB) San Francisco Chronicle
08/28/14 Many in Seattle Are Taking a Stand Against Rise of Micro-Apartments Seattle Times
06/04/15 Stop Saying That San Francisco’s Median Rent Is $4225 SFist
05/25/17 Plans for Housing in the Age of Climate Change Should Include This Tool Shelterforce
03/24/20 Housing Policy Must Change in Wake of COVID-19 Shelterforce
06/02/21 Security Deposits Are a Barrier to Affordable Housing. What Can be Done? Shelterforce
10/15/21 How to Make Universal Vouchers Actually Work Shelterforce
01/25/17 How Gentrification Powers New York City’s Tourism Industry Skift
03/21/12 Minimum Parking Regulations Lead To Overbuilding of Parking (PDF, 7 KB) Slate
01/10/14 Brooklyn’s Median Household Income Is Less Than $45,000 Slate
07/30/15 Are You a Gentrifier? Slate
03/03/16 The Ghost Tenants of New York City Slate
05/11/16 I’ve Lost Three Jobs in Three Years. Can I Buy a Home? Slate
05/13/16 New York City Is More Crowded Than Ever—Except in Its Gentrifying Neighborhoods Slate
04/08/21 The Government Is Helping People Pay Rent, but Something’s Gone Wrong Slate
09/21/21 How to Convert Hotels Into Housing for the Homeless Slate
02/08/22 New York Needs to Learn a Housing Lesson From … New Jersey? Slate
03/10/22 As US homeownership surges, Black families still left behind Smart Cities Dive
06/08/22 The ‘time-honored tradition’ of opposing affordable multifamily housing in US cities Smart Cities Dive
06/18/20 Cuomo’s Initial Eviction Moratorium Expires This Weekend⁠—And Tenants Are Worried Spectrum News NY1
08/05/20 Tenants Fear Ballooning Housing Crisis if Cuomo Doesn’t Stop Evictions Spectrum News NY1
10/16/20 Renters Outside of New York City Face Housing Instability Spectrum News NY1
10/10/22 At the Root of NYC’s Housing Crisis, a Decades-Long Problem of Supply Not Meeting Demand Spectrum News NY1
02/04/15 Flight to Fairfield County? Stamford Advocate
08/23/10 Beyond the Poverty Line (PDF, 4 MB) Stanford Social Innovation Review
11/09/08 Election Gives Staten Island Housing Market a Jolt (PDF, 165 KB) Staten Island Advance
03/12/09 Foreclosures Rose 7 Percent on Staten Island, Firm Says (PDF, 23 KB) Staten Island Advance
02/18/10 Shaping the Next New York: The Promise of Bloomberg’s Rezonings Streetsblog
05/10/11 DCP Likely to Propose Lower Parking Minimums for NYC’s “Inner Ring” Streetsblog
07/06/11 Department of City Planning Continues to Restrict Development Near Transit (PDF, 219 KB) Streetsblog
10/18/11 Planning Experts Call for an Overhaul of NYC Zoning Rules (PDF, 195 KB) Streetsblog
03/21/12 Report Details How Onerous NYC’s Regressive Parking Minimums Really Are (PDF, 312 KB) Streetsblog
01/04/16 The 2015 NYC Streetsies, Part 1 StreetsBlog NYC
02/10/16 A Vote for Parking Minimums Is a Vote to Keep the Rent Too Damn High StreetsBlog NYC
06/15/16 Opposing the Move NY Plan Does No Favors for Southeast Queens Streetsblog NYC
07/22/10 Planners Tackle Big Questions About How to Shape NYC Development Streetsblog.org
02/11/11 Parking Minimums Make NYC Housing More Expensive, NYU Report Finds Streetsblog.org
03/30/13 Fortifying our financial infrastructure doesn’t mean bailing out wealthy homeowners (PDF, 150 KB) Sun Herald
03/11/16 South Florida’s High Rents Called ‘Troubling’ Sun Sentinel
04/18/16 South Florida Cities Among Worst for Affordable Housing, Study Finds Sun Sentinel
06/11/19 NY rent reforms: Tenant protection or backdoor New York City rent control for Upstate? Syracuse.com
01/05/15 How Michael Bloomberg Greenwashed New York City Tablet
10/05/17 In Tampa Bay, burdened renters abound as home ownership stays low Tampa Bay Times
04/12/11 Living and Working in One New York Neighborhood (PDF, 35 KB) The American Prospect
04/20/17 Optimism Fuels Miami’s Mega-developments, but a Denser Miami Isn’t a Sure Thing The Archictect’s Newspaper
08/31/15 Affordable South Bronx The Architect’s Newspaper
07/12/13 The City That Never Stops Complaining: A Map of NYC By Each Area’s Top 311 Complaint (PDF, 588 KB) The Atlantic
07/09/15 Sometimes, Defaulting on a Mortgage Is a Smart Decision The Atlantic
10/31/15 In Defense of Gentrification The Atlantic
07/20/16 Can Training Programs Help Improve Police-Community Relations? The Atlantic
07/15/20 A Lot of Americans Are About to Lose Their Homes The Atlantic
11/01/11 Do Poor People Make Neighborhoods Less Safe? (PDF, 185 KB) The Atlantic Cities
11/29/11 Chart of the Day: New York Housing Price Dip (PDF, 137 KB) The Atlantic Cities
03/22/12 Parking Minimums Create Too Many Parking Spots (PDF, 343 KB) The Atlantic Cities
04/23/12 Status Quo of the Day: Rent Control in NYC (PDF, 223 KB) The Atlantic Cities
11/07/12 Do Foreclosures Increase Crime After All? (PDF, 1 MB) The Atlantic Cities
05/21/15 The Plan to Save Public Housing The Awl
11/19/13 Baltimore County’s poor need housing, too The Balitmore Sun
12/15/15 Housing Policies Still Pin Poor in Baltimore, But Some Escape to Suburbs The Baltimore Sun
09/29/09 Rezoning New York (PDF, 31 KB) The Brian Lehrer Show
10/25/13 30 Issues: Private Money for Public Good The Brian Lehrer Show - WNYC
04/11/13 “So You Think You Can Mayor?” Furman Center Forum on Housing: Vicki Been on the Brian Lehrer Show The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC)
04/18/11 A Real Estate Kingdom in Brownsville (PDF, 125 KB) The Brooklyn Ink
03/01/08 Subprime Crimes From Wall Street to Brooklyn and Beyond (PDF, 338 KB) The Brooklyn Rail
02/16/12 MacArthur Honors 15 Nonprofits for Creativity and Effectiveness (PDF, 103 KB) The Chronicle of Philanthropy
02/09/21 NYC’s Small Landlords of Color Among Those Battling for Survival Amid Rent Moratorium THE CITY
05/25/21 Cuomo’s Back-Rent Relief Finally Arrives. Tenants and Landlords Ask: Will it be Enough? THE CITY
02/02/22 Progressives and Hochul Battle Over Fate of $1.7B Developer Tax Break The City
02/14/22 A Tenant’s Guide to 421-a, the City’s Biggest Tax Break for Developers and Landlords The City
03/16/22 Can NYC Live Without Its $1.7-Billion-a-Year Developer Tax Break? Dueling Claims Define Budget Talks THE CITY
06/08/22 Building Boomlet Added Nearly 200K Apartments — and Intensified Income Segregation THE CITY
07/18/22 Eric Adams Wants More New Yorkers to Be Homeowners — and Stay That Way THE CITY
08/16/22 Permits Surged Before 421-a Tax Break Expired — But Not Enough to Stave Off a Housing Construction Lull, Developers Warn THE CITY
07/26/23 Little Oversight, Deals Signed in the Dark: How Speculators Cash In When NYC Homeowners Die Without Wills THE CITY
07/01/08 Foreclosure Epidemic Skips Big Apple…So Far (PDF, 131 KB) The Cooperator
01/01/21 Best of 2020: How wealthy towns keep people with housing vouchers out The CT Mirror
03/18/13 Forced south: Sandy family moves to Florida for lack of aid (PDF, 14 KB) The Daily Record
09/10/10 Dallas Rep. Jeb Hensarling wants Fannie Mae, FreddieMac gone (PDF, 25 KB) The Dallas Morning News
09/19/17 How can I budget when my rent is so high? The Dallas Morning News
06/17/21 Arlington Joins a National Initiative to Address Equity in Housing The Dallas Morning News
05/12/14 Gimme Shelter The Economist
08/14/15 Towering Silliness: How the City’s Skyline is Shaped by Tax Breaks The Economist
07/24/21 As Moratoriums Lift, Will America Face a Wave of Foreclosures and Evictions? The Economist
08/25/22 American cities want rent control to rein in housing costs The Economist
11/30/10 Community Gardens Safeguarded (PDF, 62 KB) The Epoch Times
04/30/13 Six Months After Sandy, Housing Upheavals Again (PDF, 82 KB) The Epoch Times
05/06/14 NYC Tackles Housing Crisis with Largest Plan in Nation The Epoch Times