Furman Center in the News

Date Title Source
10/19/16 In Search Of The Elusive Struggling Rent-Stabilized Landlord Gothamist
11/04/16 Report: Residential Construction Permits Up In NYC Despite Lack of 421-a Tax Credits Gothamist
12/07/16 Crown Heights Residents Protest Bedford Armory Site Development Gothamist
12/16/16 New York’s Lowest-Income Neighborhoods Are Also The Most Rent-Burdened Gothamist
03/01/17 Local Nonprofit Hopes To Sway Critics Of Proposed Crown Heights Armory Development Gothamist
03/09/17 Crown Heights Residents Protest Development At Bedford-Union Armory Gothamist
06/18/20 Citing Pandemic, City Grants Rent-Regulated Tenants One Year Rent Freeze Gothamist
08/05/20 Thousands Of New Yorkers At Risk Of Eviction As Cuomo’s Moratorium Expires Gothamist
01/22/22 One Week After Eviction Moratorium Ends, Thousands Of At-Risk Tenants Seek Assistance Gothamist
05/19/22 Debate swirls over property tax exemption for real estate developers Gothamist
07/28/22 New NYC Storm Surge Map Shows How Climate Change Threatens Affordable Housing, Upscale Waterfront Gothamist
10/03/22 NYC casino process moves ahead as key siting board gets members Gothamist
02/03/23 The African American exodus from New York City Gothamist
02/12/23 Landlords want the Supreme Court to overturn NY’s rent reg laws. What happens next? Gothamist
06/01/23 A son of Harlem is now an outsider looking in Gothamist
06/13/23 Queens residents demand affordable housing on site of old psych hospital Gothamist
07/30/23 Brooklyn community calls for NYC ferry service to Canarsie Gothamist
10/08/20 The COVID-Related Housing Crisis Nobody Mentions Governing
02/11/21 Openigloo Tracks Renters Receiving Pandemic Relief From Landlords Greenpointers
02/18/09 Will You Be Able to Keep Your Home? GRIT TV
06/09/22 Want a Rent-Regulated Apartment? Pay This Broker $10,000 Hell Gate
11/20/23 Has Montana solved its housing crisis? High Country News
10/26/12 40% of LIHTC Units House Extremely Low-Income Residents (PDF, 335 KB) Housing Finance News
06/15/10 Jonathan Miller Podcast Interview with Furman Center Resident Research Fellow Mark Willis Housing Helix
02/27/13 Report: Foreclosures cause neighborhood crime (PDF, 523 KB) Housing Wire
05/16/13 Experts paint a private capital market for regulators (PDF, 132 KB) Housing Wire
06/10/14 We need to face the looming rental crisis right now Housing Wire
08/10/11 Home Loans Rose in 2009 for Borrowers with Low to Moderate Income (PDF, 94 KB) HousingWire
09/27/11 ‘Do no harm’ on conforming loan limits (PDF, 22 KB) HousingWire
11/28/11 NYC foreclosures drop 32% (PDF, 18 KB) HousingWire
05/02/12 NYC property taxes are too damn high (PDF, 214 KB) HousingWire
03/29/22 Inside the government’s feeble fight to end redlining HousingWire
04/18/16 Potential Young Buyers Delay Homeownership in Part Because of Skyrocketing Prices Houston Chronicle
06/14/12 Safeguarding Subsidized Housing With Better Data (PDF, 680 KB) HUD PD&R Edge
10/27/09 Great Houses of New York: The River Club, the Best Address, Part III (PDF, 411 KB) Huffington Post
11/23/09 Race and Space: Segregation and Foreclosure (PDF, 20 KB) Huffington Post
06/03/11 Love NYC’s Diversity? Then Strengthen Rent Regulations (PDF, 369 KB) Huffington Post
07/31/13 New York City, Income Inequality Capital Of America, Now Also Facing Soaring Rent Prices: Report (PDF, 360 KB) Huffington Post
05/11/15 Past to Present: Changing New York Huffington Post
11/19/15 NYC Is Completely Unaffordable, But New Yorkers Are In Denial Huffington Post
05/13/16 How Sky-High Rents Are Radically Changing New York’s Neighborhoods Huffington Post
05/09/17 Three Decades of Homes and Hope Huffington Post
11/09/17 Making Affordable Housing Permanently Affordable Huffington Post
01/13/12 Homebuyer tax credit may explain surge in lending to less affluent (PDF, 87 KB) Inman News
07/29/20 How to Help New Yorkers Who Can’t Pay Rent Inside City Hall
05/08/09 “Don’t Put It Here!” Does Affordable Housing Cause Nearby Property Values to Decline? (PDF, 2 MB) Insights
08/05/19 New Studies Say Gentrification Doesn’t Really Force Out Low-Income Residents Intelligencer
06/07/23 New York Has a Housing Crisis. So Why Won’t Albany Act? Intelligencer
07/12/23 The New York City Economic Tracker: June 19, 2023 Investopedia
08/02/12 Despite Growth, Mortgage Refinance Market Still Has Issues (PDF, 285 KB) Investor’s Business Daily
09/27/12 Social Policy Seminar with Ingrid Gould Ellen: Audio and Presentation (PDF, 103 KB) Johns Hopkins Institute of Policy Studies Blog
10/08/18 The Future of the American City: Part Two Justia Verdict
10/30/17 Rising Rent Burden in Los Angeles KCET
06/14/19 New York just passed sweeping protections for renters, while rent control measures died in Californi KCRW
06/22/14 New York rent hearings grow rancorous with freeze under consideration LA Times
06/06/15 Why building moratoriums won’t solve San Francisco’s housing crisis LA Times
05/17/16 Why is L.A. too pricey? Blame low vacancy rates, not luxury high-rises LA Times
08/15/16 There is no perfect place for home LA Times
04/23/19 Can California boost home building without supercharging gentrification? LA Times
11/26/16 Seven Myths About Homelessness In Los Angeles LA Weekly
05/01/17 Can Mayor Garcetti Convince Neighborhood Groups to Stop Opposing Homeless Housing? LA Weekly
07/25/13 NYC Undertaxes Most Valuable Apartments, Report Says (PDF, 145 KB) Law 360
09/02/20 NY Courts Say State Has 1 Month To Act On Eviction Hold Law 360
06/30/20 Cuomo Signs Partial Eviction Moratorium Bill Law360
02/10/21 NYC Anti-Eviction Forms Slow To Roll In, Stirring Unease Law360
09/22/21 NY Says More Funds Needed As Rent Aid Speeds Up Law360
06/23/10 Low-income housing development fuels economic gains in distressed neighborhoods, stabilizes families (PDF, 162 KB) Local Initiatives Support Corporation
03/24/15 Trust Invests in Low-Income Housing Los Angeles Business Journal
02/13/09 Housing Plan Will Accelerate Loan Modifications, HUD Says (PDF, 40 KB) Los Angeles Times
08/13/15 Residents of Low-Income South Bronx Want Reassurance Amid Legionnaire’s Disease Crisis Los Angeles Times
01/04/16 How Affordable Housing Mandates Make Housing More Expensive Los Angeles Times
12/04/17 For tenants on the edge, paying the rent often takes more than half their income Los Angeles Times
05/18/22 Why do so many LA apartments come without fridges? Los Angeles Times
07/06/20 Crowding and the Coronavirus: Why Different Parts of NYC Have Been Hit Harder Market Watch
07/17/20 Mass Evictions: The Next Crisis that Could Hit New York City Market Watch
06/24/09 Harlem Wants Residents to go Shopping (PDF, 54 KB) Marketplace
09/15/10 How the 30-year Mortgage Came to Be Marketplace
11/22/13 A tall tower threatens to darken New York’s Central Park Marketplace
06/30/14 How Rising Rents, Falling Incomes Crush Communities Marketplace
08/29/14 Micro-Unit Apartments: Tiny and Booming Marketplace
02/24/15 The Housing Market is Still Struggling Marketplace
04/23/15 Imagining Affordable Housing in New York Marketplace
01/26/18 How a red-hot housing market became a crisis Marketplace
10/27/21 Voters in St. Paul, Minnesota, to decide on strict rent control proposal Marketplace
11/11/21 What rising rents mean for inflation Marketplace
08/17/10 Geithner: Housing System Needs Government Support Marketwatch
06/15/14 10 Things Your Landlord Won’t Tell You MarketWatch
03/12/09 Risks, Rewards Found in Former ‘It’ Locales (PDF, 51 KB) Metro
08/12/09 Condo Foreclosures Up, More Still Ahead (PDF, 81 KB) Metro
10/02/09 Foreclosure Catching Up to Renters (PDF, 48 KB) Metro
03/15/10 Mentally Ill Look for Home in NYC Metro
03/28/12 Flatbush Designs a Fight Against Poverty (PDF, 631 KB) MetroFocus
10/02/13 MetroFocus Preview Oct. 3: Affordable Housing, Prop 5, Earthflight MetroFocus
10/02/13 How Affordable is Affordable Housing? MetroFocus
06/17/11 New York’s Multi-Family Housing Stock: A Different Story (PDF, 230 KB) MetroTrends
03/19/15 Miami renters increase 25% in 7 years Miami Today
04/23/13 Go Figure: 25% of Twin Cities Home Buyers Paid in Cash (PDF, 1 MB) Minn Post
06/19/19 Are rent controls the solution to the affordable housing shortage? Minnesota Public Radio
08/19/21 Here’s the rent control question St. Paul will vote on this fall Minnesota Reformer
05/06/19 The Old ‘Flop House’ Emerges as Solution to Affordable Housing Crisis MPR News