Measures like Ashby’s are not new. The U.S. federal government’s Earned Income Tax Credit, a refundable credit for low-income families with up to three children, may help alleviate family poverty and ...

One of the key issues in New York City politics this mayoral election year is the need for more housing. The candidates have or will lay out detailed plans on how to create more housing at all levels.

Everyone wants a massive housing construction boom — it was even a feature of the last presidential election, from both sides. But what we have had instead is the Walking Dead on housing permits for ...

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If you're a resident of King County, chances are you've experienced the housing crisis in deeply personal ways. Perhaps you've felt the strain of rising rents, the frustration of searching for an ...

In the years since the Great Recession, apartment construction in the United States has boomed. And more of these new homes have been smaller units, with fewer bedrooms, including studio apartments. A ...

Today’s housing starts report clearly shows that to build more homes, we will need lower mortgage rates. Without lower rates, housing permits — which are already at COVID-19 recession levels — are at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Co-Founder, Conspiracy of Love, and Good is the New Cool. In the quest for sustainable urban development, Gensler, the world’s ...

This shift in both policy and opinion represents perhaps the greatest success of the “criminal-justice reform” movement, which maintains that incarceration is expensive, inhumane, and either doesn’t ...

At a time when our nation feels more divided than ever, a poll conducted by The Chronicle of Higher Education and Langer Research Associates reveals an unexpected point of agreement: people on both ...