In this episode we discuss the challenges firefighters face when looking for housing. We also discuss how rent control is not the solution to affordability.
Tag Archives: Workforce Housing
HousingThink Podcast – Episode 7
In this episode we discuss the challenges facing teachers in finding housing near their place of work. We also discuss strategies for working with local municipalities to create new housing for this market segment.
How Developers are Helping Teachers Find Affordable Housing
“According to the National Education Association, teacher salaries from the 2018-19 school year are down 4.5 percent compared to salaries from the 2009-10 school year, when adjusting for inflating. Over that same time period, the Case-Shiller National Home Price Index has risen by 43.1 percent.
This means many teachers have been forced to leave their school communities—particularly in high-cost metro areas like San Francisco and New York City—or to leave the profession altogether. ”
https://www.curbed.com/2019/5/7/18535284/affordable-housing-teachers-landed-village
HousingThink Podcast – Episode 6
In this episode we look at how veterans factor into the workforce housing market and how workforce housing renters are often forced to live in lower quality housing.
HousingThink Extra – Episode 5
Our nation’s workforce is the backbone of the US economy. In this HT Extra, we’ll introduce you to some of these workers.
HousingThink Podcast – Episode 5
Workforce Housing is designed for those who earn too much to qualify for affordable housing and too little to live in newer market-rate housing. Today’s show puts a face on this often-overlooked market segment.
Let’s Say ‘Yes In My Backyard’ To Fix Housing Woes
“Amid soaring housing costs, homelessness and environmental destruction, it’s time to do away with the exclusionary ‘not in my backyard’ (NIMBY) attitude and embrace a ‘yes in my backyard’ (YIMBY) approach that calls for dense, responsible development.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesrealestatecouncil/2020/01/28/lets-say-yes-in-my-backyard-to-fix-housing-woes/amp/
Where are the Republican YIMBYs?
This is a question I have been asking for years.
“People who want dynamism in housing markets and urban development ought of find common ground with Republicans, so why do there seem to be so few Republican YIMBYs? Nolan Gray of the Mercatus Center comments.”
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-daily-podcast/where-are-republican-yimbys
Another Housing Provider Quits
“I no longer have any desire to be a housing provider in California. The politicians have beaten me down with their constant attacks on landlords. Because California has failed to produce enough housing to satisfy the increases in demand from the jobs created here, my fellow small property owners and I are now Public Enemy No. 1. The statewide rent control law passed last year, which comes on top of myriad local measures to regulate us, showed just how little our work is valued in this state…. The race toward the bottom has begun. Will anyone wake up to this? ”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogervaldez/2020/03/09/i-quitanother-housing-provider-gives-up/#75bbbe0036c5
Introducing Graham Ridge Apartment Homes
Introducing Graham Ridge, a 96-unit workforce housing development in Monroe, North Carolina. The project will serve working families earning between $35,000 and $75,000 annually. Construction is planned for late 2020.