Furman Center in the News

Date Title Source
01/04/16 Geeky Solutions For Affordable Housing Crain’s NY Business
12/18/15 De Blasio’s Controversial Zoning Plan Stretches Definition Of “Affordable” Gothamist
12/18/15 In New York, the Fireplace Flickers The New York Times
12/15/15 Housing Policies Still Pin Poor in Baltimore, But Some Escape to Suburbs The Baltimore Sun
12/14/15 Micro Apartments: Utopia or Dystopia? Fast Company
12/03/15 Brace for Impact of 421-a Statute, MIH and Issues of Subsidies Real Estate Weekly
11/23/15 Meet 421a’s real beneficiaries: Landowners The Real Deal NY
11/20/15 The Complicated Research on how Gentrification Affects the Poor City Limits
11/19/15 NYC Is Completely Unaffordable, But New Yorkers Are In Denial Huffington Post
11/13/15 Council Hearing Will Amplify Calls for More Supportive Housing Gotham Gazette
11/10/15 De Blasio’s 421a Reforms Would Help Developers: Report The Real Deal NY
11/10/15 Union Labor Likely to Curtail 421-A Development in Less Affluent Areas, Study Finds New York Observer
11/09/15 Study Finds Revised Property-Tax Break May Be More Lucrative for Rental Developers Crain’s New York Business
10/31/15 In Defense of Gentrification The Atlantic
10/30/15 Atlanta Luxury Apartment Boom Puts The Squeeze On Renters WABE, Atlanta’s NPR Station
10/23/15 Airbnb’s Lessons For Affordable Housing National Journal
10/23/15 In Chelsea, a Great Wealth Divide The New York Times
10/15/15 How much does Airbnb impact rents in NYC? The Real Deal NY
10/14/15 Increase in Homelesness Affecting City Real Estate, Brokers Say DNA Info
10/13/15 The Effects of Neighborhood Change on NYCHA Residents NY Daily News
10/08/15 How Not to Ruin the Laundromat for Everyone City Lab
10/08/15 Micro Units Are Coming to Queens Wall Street Journal
10/01/15 How LA School Districts are Turning Disused Land into Low-cost Housing The Guardian
09/30/15 Bushwick Developer Sells Out, Takes Housing Promises With Him CityLimits
09/29/15 Demand Grows for Inclusionary Housing Development National Real Estate Investor
09/29/15 Why D.C. Needs More Affordable Housing—And How We Can Get There Elevation D.C.
09/28/15 Rat Race: The Economy Is Hot, But New Yorkers Are Unhappy at Work Crain’s New York Business
09/25/15 Claim About Atlanta’s Affordable Housing Hits the Mark Politifact.com
09/23/15 Harvard Report Says Millions More Families Will Spend Half Their Income on Rent Boston.com
09/21/15 A Crucial Strategy to End The Homelessness Crisis Crain’s New York Business
09/21/15 The Rent Crisis Is About to Get a Lot Worse Bloomberg Business
09/02/15 Students Ditch Dorms for Apartments Bought by Their Parents Wall Street Journal
08/31/15 Affordable South Bronx The Architect’s Newspaper
08/24/15 In Demand: Top Cities for Multi-Family Rentals Commercial Property Executive
08/23/15 Tracing New York City’s Affordable Housing Problem Newsweek
08/23/15 New York City Website Lets Users Drill Deep Into Census Data Wall Street Journal
08/17/15 Apartment Rents Continue Upward Climb Amidst Affordability Concerns Multi-Housing News
08/16/15 Rents Rise Faster for Midtier Apartments Than Luxury Ones The Wall Street Journal
08/14/15 Towering Silliness: How the City’s Skyline is Shaped by Tax Breaks The Economist
08/13/15 Residents of Low-Income South Bronx Want Reassurance Amid Legionnaire’s Disease Crisis Los Angeles Times
08/07/15 Business Improvement Districts Are More Than Just a Name on a Trash Can Next City
08/05/15 Where Should a Poor Family Live? New York Times
07/31/15 Where the Hipsters Haven’t Gone (Yet) Wall Street Journal
07/30/15 Are You a Gentrifier? Slate
07/29/15 Construction in New York City Goes Through The Roof The Wall Street Journal
07/28/15 Dallas is Screwed up, Which is What Drew Many of Us Here in the First Place Dallas Observer
07/23/15 Thirteen Cities Where Single-Family Rents Are Skyrocketing Bloomberg Business
07/23/15 The North Shore of NYC’s Forgotten Borough Slated to Become a Brooklyn-style Boom Town New York Daily News
07/21/15 Airbnb and Affordable Housing, Part 2 Planetizen
07/21/15 The Rental Economy’s Big Problem: Apartment Rents CBS News
07/20/15 Time to End a Huge Tax Break for Wealthy Property Owners New York Daily News
07/20/15 Why Latino Segregation Is a Growing Worry Republic 3.0
07/17/15 City Launches 2015 Big Apps Competition Capital New York
07/15/15 The Exact Moment Big Cities Got Too Expensive for Millennials Bloomberg Business
07/15/15 Bed-Stuy is Focus of Concerns Over Fate of Community Gardens CityLimits
07/14/15 Luxury-Home Lottos Reconsidered in Boston Housing Squeeze Bloomberg Business
07/12/15 The Vanishing City The New York Review of Books
07/09/15 Rent Caps Bring World of Difference across Major Cities The National
07/09/15 Sometimes, Defaulting on a Mortgage Is a Smart Decision The Atlantic
06/19/15 Study: Home-Loan Process Skewed Against Non-Whites Capital New York
06/17/15 Report asks, could a tax benefit keep rents down? Real Estate Weekly
06/15/15 On the Market: Rent Regs Expire Today; Brooklyn Bridge Park Construction Can Resume Observer
06/15/15 New York’s Rent Regulation Fight BBC
06/11/15 The Big, Big, Big, Big Money Behind Tall Buildings Citylab
06/11/15 How to Dump Tenants and Make a Fortune The Nation
06/11/15 NYU’s Furman Center Floats New Tax Abatement for Affordable Housing The Real Deal
06/06/15 Why building moratoriums won’t solve San Francisco’s housing crisis LA Times
06/04/15 Stop Saying That San Francisco’s Median Rent Is $4225 SFist
06/04/15 Berlin Imposes Rent Caps As World’s Most Desirable Cities Become ‘Gated Communities’ Vice News
06/03/15 Too many people, too few units Boston.com
06/03/15 NYC rent-stabilized units increasing, but housing advocates call for more protection laws amNY
06/03/15 It’s time to make room for a million more New Yorkers Real Estate Weekly
06/02/15 Even the Good News About Boston’s Rental Market Is Upsetting Curbed National
05/29/15 Middle-income New Yorkers struggling with heavy rent burden, study says amNY
05/28/15 Renters getting priced out of America’s big cities CBS News
05/28/15 A Taxing Matter: Looking Back on the History of 421-a The New York Observer
05/28/15 Is rent out of reach? Study shows how 11 US cities stack up Associated Press
05/21/15 The Plan to Save Public Housing The Awl
05/20/15 New Luxury Rental Projects Add to Rent Squeeze Wall Street Journal
05/19/15 The Social Commute: How the Big Schlep Is Changing the Way New Yorkers Live The New York Observer
05/19/15 US housing construction reaches post-crisis record The Real Deal
05/14/15 De Blasio’s Housing Push Spurs Anxiety Among Those It’s Meant to Help The New York Times
05/13/15 Developing NYCHA Land Has Benefits, But They Drop Off in Less Affluent Neighborhoods Observer
05/13/15 Report: NYCHA Should Only Lease Land in High Rent Areas Curbed NY
05/11/15 Why Billionaires Don’t Pay Property Taxes in New York Atlantic CityLab
05/11/15 Past to Present: Changing New York Huffington Post
05/08/15 Understand New York’s Current Building Boom in 6 Charts Curbed NY
05/07/15 The Key to a Shorter NYC commute? Location, Location, Location New York Post
05/07/15 Design Within Overreach: How a Plan to Make Affordable Housing Beautiful Ran Into Reality Crain’s New York Business
05/05/15 It’s Not You: NYC Rents Rising Faster than Income WNYC
05/05/15 New York Is Getting Less, Not More Cramped Wall Street Journal
05/05/15 As Tenants Rail Against Subsidy, REBNY Comes Out Swinging Capital New York
04/23/15 Imagining Affordable Housing in New York Marketplace
04/21/15 The Rise of Singles Will Change How We Live in Cities Washington Post
04/07/15 NYC Housing Focus Needs to Help Homeless, Too, Advocates Say Newsday
04/07/15 Multifamily Meltdown Commercial Observer
04/05/15 Up in the Air: Development Rights of New York City Landmarks Wall Street Journal
03/27/15 Developers and Cities Are Navigating the Affordable Housing Sea in a Leaky Boat Next City
03/27/15 Shelter to Shutter, Proving Hell’s Kitchen is No Place for the Homeless Crain’s New York Business
03/26/15 Density Won’t Spur Developers to Build in Low-Rent Areas The Real Deal