Furman Center in the News

Date Title Source
08/17/10 Geithner Calls for Housing Finance Reform The Financial Times
05/16/22 Now Is The Time for Gainesville Residents to Get Informed, Involved in Housing Issue The Gainesville Sun
11/18/08 Homeless Pledge a Real Challenge (PDF, 30 KB) The Globe and Mail
04/27/17 Rent-Stabilized Tenants Face Likely Rent Hike After Two Year Freeze The Gothamist
01/02/14 Michael Bloomberg’s 12 years at the helm of New York City come to an end The Guardian
10/01/15 How LA School Districts are Turning Disused Land into Low-cost Housing The Guardian
07/30/16 At home in the club: the LGBT parties changing the face of Brooklyn’s nightlife The Guardian
08/30/16 The last affordable neighborhoods in Manhattan: ‘The air is fresher up here’ The Guardian
09/30/16 Crime Stats Or Coffee Shops? How To Spot The World’s Most Gentrified Cities The Guardian
04/10/13 Sires insurance bill is not a bailout for wealthy homeowners (PDF, 230 KB) The Hill
06/25/19 NYC rent reform is a major step — but in which direction? The Hill
10/18/22 The Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac endgame The Hill
07/06/09 Jonathan Miller interviews Vicki Been The Housing Helix podcast with Jonathan Miller
02/16/12 MacArthur Awards Grants to 15 Creative Nonprofits (PDF, 61 KB) The Huffington Post
03/16/12 Mortgage Settlement Money Is For Homeowners, Housing Secretary Cautions State Governments (PDF, 96 KB) The Huffington Post
05/10/12 New York Property Taxes Unfair to Renters, New Evidence Shows (PDF, 260 KB) The Huffington Post
12/06/12 Housing Choice Vouchers Don’t Lead to Better Education (PDF, 318 KB) The Huffington Post
06/29/16 This Politician Wants Congress To Fight Gentrification The Huffington Post
11/20/09 Bloomberg Busts Out the Cash (PDF, 50 KB) The Indypendent
04/27/16 NYC housing a sticking point this session The Legislative Gazette
03/07/11 City’s Senior Center Cuts Hit LES Harder Than Any Other Neighborhood (PDF, 301 KB) The Lo-Down
06/12/12 Furman Report 2011: Lower East Side Population, Housing Snapshot (PDF, 175 KB) The Lo-Down
08/01/17 Report: Lower East Side is City’s Third Least Affordable Neighborhood The Lo-Down
11/05/10 Will Cuomo’s Land Banks Help Bed-Stuy? The Local
10/05/17 Lifestyle switch: More Bay Area residents are choosing to rent than ever before The Mercury News
08/12/13 It’s About Inequality: New York’s Class-Conscious Mayoral Race (PDF, 796 KB) The Nation
01/07/14 The Fungibility of Air The Nation
06/11/15 How to Dump Tenants and Make a Fortune The Nation
07/09/15 Rent Caps Bring World of Difference across Major Cities The National
01/10/22 A Bronx Community Bloomed After One Housing Crisis. Can It Survive Another? The New Republic
09/04/12 Can An Ex-Lehman Banker Save New York’s Last Affordable Apartments (PDF, 4 MB) The New York Observer
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
05/31/13 NYC Sees Most Building Permits Since 2008, But Nowhere Near Enough To Meet Rising Demand (PDF, 863 KB) The New York Observer
03/04/14 Could More Flexible Air Rights Policies Facilitate the Growth of Affordable Housing? The New York Observer
05/19/15 The Social Commute: How the Big Schlep Is Changing the Way New Yorkers Live The New York Observer
05/28/15 A Taxing Matter: Looking Back on the History of 421-a The New York Observer
07/12/15 The Vanishing City The New York Review of Books
09/16/20 America’s Eviction Epidemic The New York Review of Books
11/07/08 Editorial: Good Neighbors (PDF, 30 KB) The New York Times
09/28/09 Holding On to Stability in Queens (PDF, 33 KB) The New York Times
10/15/09 As City Adds Housing for Poor, Market Subtracts It (PDF, 64 KB) The New York Times
10/31/09 Where 30 Is Ancient, Youthful at 80 (PDF, 51 KB) The New York Times
11/04/09 Groups Urge Opening of Vacant Condos to the Poor (PDF, 31 KB) The New York Times
11/26/09 The Neediest Cases; Extending a Hand to Those Hurt in the Subprime Mess (PDF, 42 KB) The New York Times
02/22/10 City’s New Plan on Affordable Housing: Build Less, Preserve More (PDF, 35 KB) The New York Times
05/09/10 Demand Grows for F.H.A. Mortgages (PDF, 43 KB) The New York Times
05/27/10 New Construction Is Farther From Green Space (PDF, 31 KB) The New York Times
07/25/10 The Roller-Coaster Ride Called a Short Sale (PDF, 525 KB) The New York Times
08/18/10 Mortgage Role for U.S. Is Affirmed The New York Times
01/21/11 Banks Want Pieces of Fannie-Freddie Pie (PDF, 49 KB) The New York Times
02/13/11 The Added Value in a Staircase (PDF, 83 KB) The New York Times
03/10/11 New Worries for Buyers Seeking Mortgages (PDF, 51 KB) The New York Times
09/02/11 Across the Hall, Diversity of Incomes (PDF, 54 KB) The New York Times
10/20/11 A Search for Subsidized Housing, Simplified (PDF, 111 KB) The New York Times
10/24/11 Brownstone Brooklyn Between 2 Projects (PDF, 44 KB) The New York Times
12/02/11 Higher Loan Limits, Again, For Pricey Markets (PDF, 43 KB) The New York Times
03/10/12 Wars Over Regulation of Rent Are Only a Sideshow (PDF, 333 KB) The New York Times
07/05/12 Rent-Stabilized Apartments, Ever More Elusive (PDF, 2 MB) The New York Times
07/25/12 Wash That Blog Out With Soap (PDF, 183 KB) The New York Times
10/05/12 Co-op vs. Condo: The Differences Are Narrowing (PDF, 42 KB) The New York Times
10/15/12 Where Everything Is Lavish Except the Property Taxes (PDF, 1 MB) The New York Times
10/19/12 Some See Little Room for Large, Poor Families in Mayor’s Housing Plan (PDF, 157 KB) The New York Times
11/16/12 More Small Dogs and Big Home Prices (PDF, 2 MB) The New York Times
04/23/13 Who Says New York Is Not Affordable? (PDF, 172 KB) The New York Times
04/26/13 Why the Rent is So High in New York (PDF, 150 KB) The New York TImes
08/16/13 A Mayor Who Puts Wall Street First (PDF, 179 KB) The New York Times
01/10/14 Among Cuomo’s Proposals, a Tax Break for Renters The New York Times
01/22/14 De Blasio Sets Ambitious Goal for Affordable Apartments The New York Times
01/31/14 The Truly Affordable New York Apartment The New York Times
02/08/14 New York’s Affordable Housing Shortage The New York Times
02/08/14 New York’s Affordable Housing Shortage The New York Times
02/14/14 Rent Check The New York Times
02/25/14 Tenants Living Amid Rubble in Rent-Regulated Apartment War The New York Times
03/14/14 Apartment Hunting with a Mobile App The New York Times
03/28/14 Serial Renters in New York City The New York Times
04/30/14 The Rent is Too High The New York Times
05/05/14 De Blasio Unveils Plan to Create More Affordable Housing for City The New York Times
05/07/14 With Caution, a Poor Corner of Brooklyn Welcomes an Affordable Housing Plan The New York Times
05/09/14 A Plan Built on Assumptions The New York Times
05/16/14 What’s Next, a Bouncer? The New York Times
05/30/14 Middle-Class Lament: Rent The New York Times
06/20/14 My Lower East Side The New York Times
05/14/15 De Blasio’s Housing Push Spurs Anxiety Among Those It’s Meant to Help The New York Times
10/23/15 In Chelsea, a Great Wealth Divide The New York Times
12/18/15 In New York, the Fireplace Flickers The New York Times
04/14/16 Segregation Issue Complicates de Blasio’s Housing Push The New York Times
04/29/19 The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White. The New York Times
01/02/20 This Union Defeated Airbnb. Now It’s Taking Aim at a New Target. The New York Times
08/05/20 In These Neighborhoods, the Jobless Rate May Top 30 Percent The New York Times
02/17/21 Despite Deep Rent Cuts, Essential Workers Are Mostly Left Out The New York Times
02/26/21 A Push for Zoning Reform in Connecticut The New York Times
06/24/21 Modest Rent Increases Approved for 2.3 Million N.Y.C. Tenants The New York Times
06/26/21 Is This Railroad for the Rich? The New York Times
08/14/21 Landlords and Tenants Worry About Effects of Ruling on Eviction Moratorium The New York Times
08/17/21 The Resilience of New York’s Black Homeowners The New York Times
08/17/21 What Gentrification Means for Black Homeowners The New York Times
09/10/21 Why $46 Billion Couldn’t Prevent an Eviction Crisis The New York Times
11/16/21 How the Pandemic Worsened a Housing Crisis in the Bronx The New York Times
11/23/21 New York Targets Affluent Neighborhoods in Push for Affordable Housing The New York Times
01/20/22 How Fire Defined the Bronx, and Us The New York Times