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The housing shortage

There's a massive housing shortage across the U.S. Here's how bad it is where you live
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There's a massive housing shortage across the U.S. Here's how bad it is where you live

NPR • July 14, 2022
Why There Are No Houses to Buy in Many U.S. Metro Areas
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Why There Are No Houses to Buy in Many U.S. Metro Areas

TIME • March 9, 2023
Is Apartment-phobia Driving America's Housing Crisis?
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Is Apartment-phobia Driving America's Housing Crisis?

New York Magazine • March 20, 2023
How the US made affordable homes illegal
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How the US made affordable homes illegal

Vox • Aug. 16, 2021
NLIHC Releases The Gap 2023: A Shortage of Affordable Homes
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NLIHC Releases The Gap 2023: A Shortage of Affordable Homes

National Low Income Housing Coalition • March 20, 2023
Housing Breaks People's Brains
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Housing Breaks People's Brains

The Atlantic • Nov. 23, 2022

The policies that created it

Why America's Biggest Cities Are Littered With Vacant Lots
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Why America's Biggest Cities Are Littered With Vacant Lots

Wall Street Journal • March 6, 2023
Housing solutions are climate solutions
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Housing solutions are climate solutions

Seattle Times • March 9, 2023
Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History
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Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History

NPR • April 11, 2018
Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot
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Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot

New York Times • June 18, 2019

The YIMBY movement

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The Rise of the YIMBYs

Wall Street Journal • April 28, 2022
Where pro-housing groups are emerging
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Where pro-housing groups are emerging

Brookings • March 31, 2022
Could Biden's affordable housing plan reboot Atlanta's upzoning ambitions?
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Could Biden's affordable housing plan reboot Atlanta's upzoning ambitions?

Atlanta Civic Circle • May 23, 2022
YIMBY Zoning Reform Sweeps the Mountain West
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YIMBY Zoning Reform Sweeps the Mountain West

Bloomberg • March 7, 2023
A Key to Controlling Emissions: More Buildings in a City's Unused Spaces
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A Key to Controlling Emissions: More Buildings in a City's Unused Spaces

New York Times • Sept. 19, 2022
Virginia is for YIMBYs: the pro-housing movement spreading across the commonwealth
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Virginia is for YIMBYs: the pro-housing movement spreading across the commonwealth

Greater Greater Washington • March 23, 2023