Affordable housing

annually toward public housing assistance. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has created two main types of housing assistance: project-based, where the subsidy is attached to the dwelling unit, and tenant-based, where the subsidy is given directly to the assisted household (Olsen, 2016). Within the public housing category, there are two kinds of project-based assistance, both of which generally require building new housing projects. The first is public housing, which consists of…

the Great Australian Housing Dream or are there more sustainable options to support family wellbeing? This is important in Australia because of population growth, housing affordability and the impact of wellbeing on families. Research has shown that if we all want to keep living on quarter acreage blocks, there is not enough room for affordable housing and not having enough houses means that people and families can and will end up living on the streets. To make more housing, the government…

The legal process of gentrification is potentially one of the more easily argued cases, especially in a country that prides itself on its free market. Using 1520 Sedgwick as an example as well I will compare how the ideals of a free market economy would effect it with the realities of the situation. First of all, if the US was a true free market economy 1520 Sedgwick would never have been enrolled in the Mitchell-Lama program because such a system wouldn’t exist unless the government owned the…

In 1949, as low as six people were found sleeping in the streets of London, the rise of homelessness started to rise in the mid 60’s. As the three leading campaign groups Crisis, Shelter and Centre-point were formed in the 60’s and the ‘housing homeless people act’ came in 1977. By the 1980s and into the early 1990s, however, homelessness was again on the rise. As things such house-price inflation, rising unemployment, a more general increase in the number of people with drink, drug and mental…

afford to be there. As a result, the upper-class is what caused this dilemma in life for the working-class. However, leaving many people unaware of how the upper-class are financially deteriorating the working class by raising prices, leaving no affordable houses, and inadequate for opportunities. In particular, no college funds, typical family outing, or even small businesses. The upper-class tends to overcrowd cities, resort towns, and villages. Furthermore, within that time local businesses…

San Francisco, Silicon Valley’s Exclusive Suburb Many may compare the riches of California’s Gold Rush of 1849 to the rise of the digital age in Silicon Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area is becoming an exclusive suburb because of it. Gone are the artisans and tradespeople, replaced by lofts, townhouses and studios populated with high-income content curators, engineers and infrastructure architects (Weckler). The information age in the Bay Area brought with itself a multitude of innovations…

Housing and Need According to My Two Perspectives: Old and New As a child, my needs were very few, and I had more than most, if not all, of my peers. I had more expensive clothes, a bigger home, a newer car, and an exquisite jewelry collection from all over the world. I was accustomed to being a child of privilege, to the degree that I was unable to understand the concept of need. I could not comprehend poverty or hunger. And I do not recall being taught to be truly thankful for all that I…

construction of affordable housing through bond funds, tax credits, and other resources. California also requires that cities have developers of new housing projects set aside a certain percentage as affordable housing. The Los Angeles Time dated June 15, 2015 reports that “the California Supreme Court made it easier Monday for cities and counties to require developers to sell some housing at below market rates,” Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye wrote “A scarcity of affordable housing have not…

administrator of New York City Housing Authority’s question regarding the New York Public Housing Law §37. Public housing disrepair and low maintenance is not a new issue to New Yorkers. Despite the government's effort to lower the percentage of public housing disrepair, a very small percentage was decreased. There are 520,103 residents in 378 housing projects, where more than 90% of those projects are in need of some kind of immediate repair. The new York’s Housing Authority Department proposed…

Gentrification is seen by most of the public as the buying and renovating of houses, stores and buildings in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by wealthier individuals which increases property values and displaces low-income families. If we look at the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition we see it is defined as the process by which an urban area is rendered middle-class (“gentrifi’cation, n”). Gentrification is more than a renovation to an area or neighborhood, it is a controversial topic of…