Furman Center in the News

Date Title Source
05/01/13 Seattle, at forefront of micro-housing trend, looks to downsize living spaces (PDF, 174 KB) Associated Press
04/30/13 Six Months After Sandy, Housing Upheavals Again (PDF, 82 KB) The Epoch Times
04/26/13 Why the Rent is So High in New York (PDF, 150 KB) The New York TImes
04/23/13 Who Says New York Is Not Affordable? (PDF, 172 KB) The New York Times
04/23/13 Go Figure: 25% of Twin Cities Home Buyers Paid in Cash (PDF, 1 MB) Minn Post
04/22/13 Affordable Housing Paved the Way for Neighborhood Revitalization (PDF, 169 KB) New York Real Estate Journal
04/15/13 City Grant Aids Quinn Housing Plan (PDF, 313 KB) Wall Street Journal
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)
04/11/13 Low-Wage Jobs are on the Rise in New York, But Where Can the Poorly Paid Afford to Live? (PDF, 644 KB) The New York Observer
04/10/13 Sires insurance bill is not a bailout for wealthy homeowners (PDF, 230 KB) The Hill
04/01/13 Learning from Hurricane Sandy and pooling funds for the next catastrophe (PDF, 292 KB) New Jersey Star-Ledger
03/30/13 Fortifying our financial infrastructure doesn’t mean bailing out wealthy homeowners (PDF, 150 KB) Sun Herald
03/29/13 Drumbeat to Downzone Bushwick Continues, Despite Skepticism on Affordable Housing (PDF, 1 MB) New York Observer
03/29/13 Section 8 Housing Does Not De-Value Neighborhood, Increase Crime: Study Says (PDF, 784 KB) Realty Today
03/29/13 Report challenges tie between housing vouchers, crime (PDF, 144 KB) Chicago Tribune
03/29/13 Relying on Hotel Rooms for Thousands Uprooted by Hurricane Sandy (PDF, 148 KB) New York Times
03/29/13 Relying on Hotel Rooms for Thousands Uprooted by Hurricane Sandy (PDF, 148 KB) New York Times
03/18/13 Forced south: Sandy family moves to Florida for lack of aid (PDF, 14 KB) The Daily Record
03/07/13 Q&A: How Sandy Affected Low-Income Residents (PDF, 253 KB) Wall Street Journal
03/07/13 Rent and the single girl (PDF, 108 KB) New York Post
03/07/13 Sandy Surge Covered A Sixth of the City (PDF, 631 KB) City Limits
03/06/13 Sandy hit the poor hardest in New York Crain’s New York Business
03/06/13 Low-Income Renters Impacted by Hurricane Sandy in Greatest Need of Assistance Suggests New Reports Real Estate Rama
03/06/13 Low-income renters in Brooklyn hit harder by Sandy than any other city neighborhood, new report show (PDF, 1 MB) NY Daily News
03/06/13 Superstorm Sandy battered the poor hardest, studies show (PDF, 101 KB) Reuters
03/01/13 Report: Foreclosures Linked to Rising Crime Levels (PDF, 594 KB) RealityBiz News
02/28/13 FHA Hits Brakes on Housing With Budget Cuts: Mortgages (PDF, 1 MB) Bloomberg News
02/27/13 New York City Foreclosures Linked to Crime (PDF, 2 MB) New York Observer
02/27/13 Report: Foreclosures cause neighborhood crime (PDF, 523 KB) Housing Wire
02/19/13 Martha Coakley presses banks on loans (PDF, 842 KB) Boston Globe
01/29/13 Developers, wary of cost and delay, spurn city’s landmark transfers program for air rights (PDF, 595 KB) The Real Deal
01/23/13 Who’s who? New Report Finds Rental Owners Don’t Register (PDF, 1 MB) Real Estate Weekly
01/20/13 What’s a Hearth Worth? (PDF, 202 KB) New York Magazine
01/15/13 Most City Landlords Fail to Register Rental Properties (PDF, 300 KB) The Real Deal
01/04/13 Rental assistance recipients in Bergen and Passaic counties live near worst schools, report finds (PDF, 358 KB) NJ.com
01/04/13 Study shows federal housing program helps lowest income tenants (PDF, 123 KB) Phys.org
12/06/12 Housing Choice Vouchers Don’t Lead to Better Education (PDF, 318 KB) The Huffington Post
11/27/12 NYU Furman Center Releases Report on Assisted Housing and Education (PDF, 121 KB) University of Texas School of Law Opportunity Forum
11/22/12 How One Brooklyn Building Shows a Possible Solution for the City’s Homeless Problem (PDF, 594 KB) New York Magazine
11/16/12 Study: Housing Aid No Path to Better Schooling (PDF, 372 KB) Education Week News
11/16/12 More Small Dogs and Big Home Prices (PDF, 2 MB) The New York Times
11/07/12 Do Foreclosures Increase Crime After All? (PDF, 1 MB) The Atlantic Cities
10/26/12 40% of LIHTC Units House Extremely Low-Income Residents (PDF, 335 KB) Housing Finance News
10/25/12 NYU Furman Center Releases Policy Brief on LIHTC Program Tenants (PDF, 249 KB) National Housing Institute News
10/23/12 NYU: LIHTC Requires More Subsidies (PDF, 269 KB) GlobeSt.com
10/21/12 Investment firms look to single-family rentals (PDF, 607 KB) USA Today
10/19/12 Some See Little Room for Large, Poor Families in Mayor’s Housing Plan (PDF, 157 KB) The New York Times
10/15/12 Where Everything Is Lavish Except the Property Taxes (PDF, 1 MB) The New York Times
10/08/12 Crime and Community Development: A Q&A with Ingrid Gould Ellen of NYU (PDF, 491 KB) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation NewPublicHealth
10/05/12 Co-op vs. Condo: The Differences Are Narrowing (PDF, 42 KB) The New York Times
10/02/12 In Southeast Queens, Epicenter of Housing Bust, Holding Onto Homes Still Elusive (PDF, 288 KB) WNYC
09/27/12 Social Policy Seminar with Ingrid Gould Ellen: Audio and Presentation (PDF, 103 KB) Johns Hopkins Institute of Policy Studies Blog
09/19/12 Foreclosure Crisis: Buzz Fades, Protests Continue (PDF, 687 KB) City Limits
09/05/12 N.J. lender stumbles in providing Queens mortgages (PDF, 335 KB) The Real Deal
09/04/12 Can An Ex-Lehman Banker Save New York’s Last Affordable Apartments (PDF, 4 MB) The New York Observer
08/22/12 Parking lot today, redevelopment site tomorrow (PDF, 184 KB) Crain’s New York Business
08/02/12 Despite Growth, Mortgage Refinance Market Still Has Issues (PDF, 285 KB) Investor’s Business Daily
07/25/12 Wash That Blog Out With Soap (PDF, 183 KB) The New York Times
07/25/12 Raising Our Aspirations (PDF, 1 MB) Enterprise Blog
07/23/12 Home sales held hostage by junior lien holders (PDF, 218 KB) Bloomberg
07/05/12 Rent-Stabilized Apartments, Ever More Elusive (PDF, 2 MB) The New York Times
06/29/12 Mayor’s Housing Plan Shifts From Building to Preserving Units: Report (PDF, 337 KB) WNYC
06/24/12 Greg David: Another tax break that benefits the rich (PDF, 368 KB) Crain’s New York Business
06/22/12 Rent Guidelines Board Approves Increases on Stabilized Rents (PDF, 606 KB) Curbed NY
06/18/12 NYU’s State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods Report (PDF, 620 KB) Dumbo NYC
06/14/12 The Tax Man Cometh for Your Condo (PDF, 255 KB) New York Observer
06/14/12 Safeguarding Subsidized Housing With Better Data (PDF, 680 KB) HUD PD&R Edge
06/12/12 Furman Report 2011: Lower East Side Population, Housing Snapshot (PDF, 175 KB) The Lo-Down
05/22/12 How to Find a Rent-Stabilized Apartment in New York City (PDF, 335 KB) DNA Info
05/10/12 New York Property Taxes Unfair to Renters, New Evidence Shows (PDF, 260 KB) The Huffington Post
05/02/12 NYC property taxes are too damn high (PDF, 214 KB) HousingWire
05/02/12 NYC taxes hit large rental buildings hardest (PDF, 197 KB) New York Daily News
05/02/12 Furman Report Highlights Low Tax Rate for Houses (PDF, 108 KB) Brownstoner
04/30/12 The State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods WNYC, The Brian Lehrer Show
04/30/12 Renters get stuck with lion’s share of taxes (PDF, 40 KB) Crain’s New York Business
04/27/12 Brooklyn Shelters Homeowners With Longest Foreclosures (PDF, 138 KB) Bloomberg
04/27/12 Home foreclosures take longest in Bklyn (PDF, 225 KB) Crain’s New York Business
04/23/12 Renters Relieved! Life Returns to Normal After Supreme Court Turns Down Harmon Case (PDF, 339 KB) New York Observer
04/23/12 Status Quo of the Day: Rent Control in NYC (PDF, 223 KB) The Atlantic Cities
04/19/12 How Much Does a Rent-Stabilized NYC Apartment Cost? (PDF, 561 KB) Curbed NY
04/16/12 Evictions on the Rise in the City (PDF, 76 KB) WNYC News Blog
03/29/12 Manhattan foreclosures up 11% in last part of 2011 (PDF, 152 KB) New York Daily News
03/28/12 Home sales across city fell 11% in 4Q (PDF, 45 KB) Crain’s New York Business
03/28/12 Flatbush Designs a Fight Against Poverty (PDF, 631 KB) MetroFocus
03/28/12 NYC home sales volume down, but so are foreclosures: report (PDF, 66 KB) The Real Deal
03/28/12 Furman: Sales Volume Down but Prices Unchanged (PDF, 195 KB) Brownstoner
03/22/12 Parking Minimums Create Too Many Parking Spots (PDF, 343 KB) The Atlantic Cities
03/21/12 Minimum Parking Regulations Lead To Overbuilding of Parking (PDF, 7 KB) Slate
03/21/12 Report Details How Onerous NYC’s Regressive Parking Minimums Really Are (PDF, 312 KB) Streetsblog
03/20/12 Early Checks Help Multifamily Units (PDF, 106 KB) The Wall Street Journal
03/16/12 Mortgage Settlement Money Is For Homeowners, Housing Secretary Cautions State Governments (PDF, 96 KB) The Huffington Post
03/10/12 Wars Over Regulation of Rent Are Only a Sideshow (PDF, 333 KB) The New York Times
02/28/12 NYU Furman Center’s Surprising Data on Subsidized Housing (PDF, 62 KB) Multi-Housing News
02/22/12 Homeowners Roll Up Sleeves to Trim Costs (PDF, 91 KB) The Wall Street Journal
02/16/12 NYU Furman Center & Moth Honored by MacArthur Foundation (PDF, 297 KB) New York Nonprofit Press
02/16/12 MacArthur Awards Grants to 15 Creative Nonprofits (PDF, 61 KB) The Huffington Post
02/16/12 MacArthur Foundation’s 2012 ‘Awards for Creative and Effective Institutions’ (PDF, 44 KB) The Washington Post
02/16/12 MacArthur Honors 15 Nonprofits for Creativity and Effectiveness (PDF, 103 KB) The Chronicle of Philanthropy
02/10/12 Bernanke’s speech to home builders (PDF, 140 KB) Reuters
02/10/12 Mortgage deal could help many avoid court, but backlog remains (PDF, 46 KB) Thomson Reuters