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University of Pennsylvania. Graduate Dept. of City Planning. [Philadelphia, Pa. : The Dept., 1961]
Call#: Fine Arts Library Fine Arts HT177.P5 U556 1961, 2 copies


tagged hist204 housing sec5 philadelphia university by myna ...on 15-JUL-08
Search for sales statistics, real estate price trends, and real estate market activity in the United States by most popular real estate markets, by using our state map, or with our alphabetical directory of the United States cities. For the United States real estate market overview, see our chart of average sale prices and graph of real estate trends on each state page.
tagged cities housing real_estate urban_studies stats by laallen ...and 1 other person ...on 14-APR-08
tagged housing urban_studies real_estate rent stats by laallen ...on 14-APR-08
50th Percentile Rent Estimates Rent estimates at the 50th percentile (or median) are calculated for all Fair Market Rent areas. THESE ARE NOT FAIR MARKET RENTS.
tagged housing rent urban_studies stats real_estate by laallen ...on 14-APR-08
Search for sales statistics, real estate price trends, and real estate market activity in the United States by most popular real estate markets, by using our state map, or with our alphabetical directory of the United States cities. For the United States real estate market overview, see our chart of average sale prices and graph of real estate trends on each state page.
tagged cities stats urban_studies real_estate housing by laallen ...and 1 other person ...on 14-APR-08
tagged canada housing real_estate by bmarcell ...on 07-APR-08
tagged canada housing real_estate by bmarcell ...on 07-APR-08

Owner- and renter-occupied dwellings as a proportion of total dwellings, Canada, provinces, territories and health regions, 2001

tagged canada housing real_estate by bmarcell ...on 07-APR-08
File that explains what is captured.Add
tagged canada real_estate housing by bmarcell ...on 07-APR-08
The Kowloon Walled City (traditional Chinese: d9i> ee/(; simplified Chinese: d9i>ee/(; originally known as d9i> e/(e) was an anomaly in Hong Kong's colonial history. China's tiny exclave in the middle of British Hong Kong for decades, it had a colorful existence until it was torn down in 1993.
tagged china kowloon slums slum housing hong_kong by jn ...on 03-MAR-08
Housing profiles of Philadelphia neighborhoods.
belongs to HSPV Other project
tagged housing philadelphia neighborhoods by laallen ...and 1 other person ...on 08-FEB-08
The neighborhoodBase website is designed to assist community-based planning and development organizations, government agencies, researchers and concerned individuals in their efforts to analyze, transform and revitalize Philadelphia neighborhoods.
tagged housing libment by currano ...on 07-DEC-07
tagged UPenn libment housing by mcdanold ...and 1 other person ...on 27-NOV-07
tagged housing libment by mcdanold ...on 27-NOV-07
tagged housing libment by mcdanold ...on 27-NOV-07
tagged blogs housing libment by mcdanold ...on 27-NOV-07
tagged housing libment by loigman ...and 1 other person ...on 26-NOV-07
Philadelphia NIS NeighborhoodBas
NeighborhoodBase is a publicly-accessible, web-based, geographic data application developed by the University of Pennsylvania's Cartographic Modeling Lab. Along with parcelBase, muralBase, and crimeBase, neighborhoodBase is one of four applications that comprise the Neighborhood Information System. The neighborhoodBase website is designed to assist community-based planning and development organizations, government agencies, researchers and concerned individuals in their efforts to analyze, transform and revitalize Philadelphia neighborhoods.
tagged housing by deppen ...on 04-OCT-07
Trading places
As the affluent go downtown, the working poor are tripling up to buy homes in the 'burbs.
By By William Fulton
July 29, 2007
 
A few weeks ago, I checked out the latest monument to Los Angeles' newfound urbanity: the Getty Oil Building at the intersection of Wilshire and Western. The 23-story Modernist structure, designed by Claude Beelman and built in the early 1960s, has been converted into condominiums. Across the street is the Wiltern Theater, and Koreatown stores and restaurants are a block or two away. A Red Line station catty-corner to the Getty building gives a condo resident access to Universal City, Hollywood and downtown. The building, rechristened "The Mercury" by its developer, represents the epitome of car-free urban living.

If you can afford it. The condos cost about $700 a square foot, meaning a nice two-bedroom condo -- with windows on two sides and great views -- runs about $1 million.

A few evenings later, I found myself in the cramped living room of a single-family home in a suburb of Ventura, one of about 180 houses built a decade ago for buyers with annual incomes of about $50,000. Because the original development was federally subsidized, the homeowners can sell their house only at a restricted sales price of $300,000 to $400,000, which is 20% to 40% below the market price.

The cap on the selling price, the homeowners told me, has brought some changes to their neighborhood. It allows the working poor to afford these houses by teaming up to buy them. Realtors say four, five, even six people are listed on mortgage titles to qualify for financing. Seven, eight, nine cars are parked in the driveways and on the streets in front of the houses.

What's going on here? For a century, people in Southern California moved to the suburbs as they got richer, leaving the more "urban" parts of town to poor people. Now that pattern has reversed itself. Affluent people are leaving the suburbs to live in the city, while the working poor -- people who have jobs but don't earn enough to exceed the poverty line -- are doubling and tripling up in the suburbs to buy houses.

The migration of the affluent to the inner city has gradually increased in the last three years. According to a study by the Downtown Center Business Improvement District, the household median income of downtown residents with a least one earner was about $99,600 a year in 2006, roughly $28,000 higher than that of Beverly Hills. Nearly half of those surveyed reported annual income of $100,000 to above $250,000.
tagged LATimes urban_studies suburbs city_planning housing slums Los_Angeles by jn ...on 31-JUL-07
rom the Los Angeles Times
TIMES SPECIAL REPORT
A not-so-welcome mat
Antelope Valley neighbors are behind a crackdown on subsidized housing
By Jessica Garrison and Ted Rohrlich
Times Staff Writers

June 17, 2007

THE anonymous tip came in over a special hotline: Someone was smoking marijuana on the balcony of Rachel Baker's government-subsidized apartment.

On a recent morning, Lee D'Errico, a Los Angeles County Housing Authority investigator, bounded up the stairs of the sprawling two-story complex in Lancaster, half a dozen armed sheriff's deputies on his heels.

D'Errico rapped on the door of Baker, a 28-year-old single mother of three. She took one look at the group on her stairs, ordered her children into a bedroom and moved aside.

Then the officers, who had no warrant, searched the home. Within minutes, they discovered a half-smoked marijuana cigarette under a couch cushion - enough, D'Errico told Baker, to terminate her subsidy under the federal Section 8 program.

"What?" Baker said, sobbing. "I didn't know it was there. Otherwise, I wouldn't have let you in."

It was another fruitful investigation for the housing authority in the Antelope Valley, where officials have launched one of the most aggressive campaigns in the nation to stamp out unauthorized or illegal behavior in federally subsidized housing.


tagged LA section8 los_angeles housing LATimes by jn ...on 18-JUN-07
The Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York announces:

The William R. Ginsberg Fellowships

Established in 2007, the William R. Ginsberg Fellowships are designed to
encourage public service and civic engagement for two key groups of
talented professionals: senior practitioners and policy makers, and recent
college graduates or graduate students.

The Fellowships provide support for original research and the opportunity
to explore new ideas and practices. Areas of research and empirical study
should be designed to improve the quality of life in NYC's neighborhoods
by focusing on housing, the urban environment and open space, education,
transportation, land use and zoning, or community development.

William R. Ginsberg was a pioneering environmental lawyer, NYC Parks
Commissioner, teacher, mentor, and tireless advocate on behalf of NYC's
civic life, the built environment, and the preservation of open space. He
served on the board of CHPC for more than four decades.

The Fellowship is supported by a generous gift from William R. Ginsberg
and his family.

Promoting a Prosperous and Livable City Since 1937 70th Anniversary 1937-2007

FOR INFORMATION CONTACT CHPC at info@chpcny.org or download applications
at www.chpcny.org


tagged fellowship funding new_york planning housing by jn ...and 2 other people ...on 28-MAR-07
The Southland's hidden Third World slums
In the Coachella Valley, hundreds of trailer parks house desperately poor Latino workers amid burning trash, mud, contaminated water.
By David Kelly, Times Staff Writer
March 26, 2007

THERMAL, CALIF. - Like most of their neighbors in the sprawling, ramshackle Oasis Mobile Home Park, the Aguilars have no heat, no hot water. On cold nights, the family of eight stays warm by bundling up in layers of sweaters and sleeps packed together in two tiny rooms.

Bathing is a luxury that requires using valuable propane to boil gallons of water. So the farmworker clan spends a lot of time dirty.


tagged LATimes immigration slums los_angeles housing by jn ...and 1 other person ...on 27-MAR-07
Housing profiles of Philadelphia neighborhoods.

Center for Housing Policy Research: Housing America's Working Families 

* A Heavy Load: The combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Families (October 2006) - This study of 28 major Metropolitan areas nationwide found that as working families move further from work to afford housing they end up spending as much, or more, on transportation costs than they save on housing.

 


tagged housing transportation transportation_costs by jn ...and 1 other person ...on 16-DEC-06
November 20, 2006
The Hard Part
Evicted From a Blighted Street, Newark's Mayor Finds Another
By ANDREW JACOBS

NEWARK, Nov. 19 - The magenta "praise the Lord" throw pillows: trash. The Black Santa holiday tie: a keeper. The lime-green dress shirt:

"It's not mayoral," said an aide with unconcealed disdain. Into the charity pile it went.

On Mayor Cory A. Booker's final night at his bachelor-pad apartment in Brick Towers last Monday, there were important sartorial decisions to be made before the movers arrived. After living in one of the city's most notoriously troubled buildings - where heat, hot water and elevator service were often in short supply - since 1998, Mr. Booker and two dozen other holdouts were being evicted to make way for the bulldozers.

 


tagged NYTimes housing newark cory_booker by jn ...on 19-NOV-06
Neuwirth, Robert. . Shadow cities : a billion squatters, a new urban world / Robert Neuwirth. [0415933196 (hardback : alk. paper) ] New York : Routledge, 2005.
Call#: Van Pelt Library HD7287.95 .N48 2005


tagged city_planning housing squatters by jn ...on 07-NOV-06

City Limits WEEKLY
Week of: November 6, 2006
Number: 560
A NEW PLACE TO PARK THE FAMILY -- NOT THE CAR
Over the next few years, residential buildings will replace open spaces at some public housing complexes. > By Tanveer Ali
 
Apartment buildings will sprout from parking lots at public housing projects around the city over the next few years, creating up to 600 new affordable housing units on what’s now underutilized land, according to a joint plan by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD).
tagged city_planning housing by jn ...on 07-NOV-06
tagged center_city housing philadelphia by wweiss ...on 04-OCT-06

Posted on Sun, May. 21, 2006


BUILDING OUR CITY
The new downtowners
Market called ripe for condos
By JEFF WILKINSON


The building boom in downtown Columbia is nothing less than a wholesale remaking of the city center — creating a new urban core of homes with river views, Viking kitchens and short walks to work, the restaurant or the art museum.
About 4,000 units have been built or announced recently, and that doesn’t include 3,000 more expected to spring up around USC’s Innovista research district.
So who’s going to buy them?
Probably your neighbors.
Out-of-towners and investors will be a big part of the mix. But experts said most of the units will be snapped up by local baby boomers tired of the daily commute, the big yard and the big house in the suburbs.


tagged center_city housing urban_revitalization real_estate by jn ...on 12-SEP-06
Posted on Mon, Sep. 11, 2006
Mayor-Council unity fought blight in past; it can again
By John Kromer
tagged NTI housing philadelphia inquirer by jn ...on 11-SEP-06
Brooklyn's Trojan Horse
What's wrong with the buildings Frank Gehry wants to put in my neighborhood?
By Jonathan Lethem
Posted Monday, June 19, 2006, at 12:14 PM ET
tagged city_planning urban_development urban_studies new_york housing by jn ...on 20-JUN-06

Less Housing for Residents of Average Pay, Report Says
By JANNY SCOTT
Published: June 16, 2006

The report, to be released today, for the first time puts hard numbers on a cost squeeze that has intensified with the real estate boom. The researchers found that the number of apartments affordable to households earning about $32,000 a year, or 80 percent of the median household income in the city, has dropped by 205,000 in just three years.

tagged affforable_housing city_planning nytimes urban_studies housing by jn ...on 16-JUN-06
Like the NIS in Philadelphia, this site provides lots of information about New York at various levels of geographic specificity.
United States. Bureau of the Census.. Census of housing: taken as part ;of the seventeenth decennial census of the United States.Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1951-1952.
Call#: HD7293 .A4883
v. 1. General characteristics. pt. 1. United States summary. pt. 2. Alabama-Georgia. pt. 3. Idaho-Massachusetts. pt. 4. Michigan-New York. pt. 5. North Carolina-Tennessee. pt. 6. Texas-Wyoming. pt. 7. Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands of U. S.
v. 2. Nonfarm housing characteristics. pt. 1. United States and divisions. pt. 2. Akron-Des Moines. pt. 3. Detroit-Memphis. pt. 4. Miami-Salt Lake City. pt. 5 San Antonio-Youngstown.
v. 3. Farm housing characteristics. United States and economic subregions.
v. 4. Residential financing. Mortgaged nonfarm properties. pt. 1. United States. pt. 2. Large standard metropolitan areas.
v. 5. Block statistics (comprising Series H-E bulletins) 213 parts.


tagged 1950 census housing united_states block by laallen ...and 1 other person ...on 27-APR-06
United States. Bureau of the Census.. 1970 census of housing.[Washington; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print Off., 1972-
Call#: Van Pelt Library HD7293 .A512 1972


tagged 1970 housing united_states philadelphia census block by laallen ...on 27-APR-06
United States. Bureau of the Census.. Census of housing: taken as part ;of the seventeenth decennial census of the United States.Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1951-1952.
Call#: HD7293 .A4883


tagged 1950 united_states philadelphia block census housing by laallen ...and 1 other person ...on 27-APR-06
United States. Bureau of the Census.. Census of housing : taken as part of the seventeenth decennial census of the United States.Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1951-54.
Call#: HD7293 .A4883


tagged 1950 housing united_states philadelphia census block by laallen ...on 27-APR-06
United States. Bureau of the Census.. Census of housing : taken as part of the seventeenth decennial census of the United States.Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1951-54.
Call#: Van Pelt Library 317.3 Un35 1950.2


tagged 1950 block census housing philadelphia united_states by laallen ...on 27-APR-06
United States. Bureau of the Census.. 1960 census of housing, taken as part of the eighteenth decennial census of the United States.[Washington, 1961-1963].
Call#: HD7293 .A4884


tagged 1960 block census housing united_states by laallen ...on 27-APR-06
United States. Bureau of the Census.. 16th census of the United States, 1940. Housing : Supplement to the first series, housing bulletin for Pennsylvania : Philadelphia block statistics.Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks HD7293 .A486 1942


tagged 1940 census housing philadelphia united_states by laallen ...on 27-APR-06
United States. Bureau of the Census.. Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940, Housing. Block statistics [for cities of a population of 50,000 or more].Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1941-1942.
Call#: HD7293 .A488b


tagged 1940 census housing united_states block by laallen ...on 27-APR-06
United States. Bureau of the Census.. 16th census of the United States, 1940 : Housing : analytical maps : block statistics / prepared under the supervision of Leon E. Truesdell, chief statistician for population, Bureau of the Census ; prepared and duplicated by New York City WPA War ServiceWashington, DC : the Bureau, 1943?
Call#: Van Pelt Library Folio HD7293 .A5 1940m


tagged 1940 block census housing united_states by laallen ...on 27-APR-06

Why public housing, once the scourge of the city, now is a vital part of its life and its future.

tagged housing urban public_housing philadelphia by laallen ...on 25-JAN-06
Second in a series of articles on public housing in philly.
tagged housing public_housing philadelphia urban by laallen ...on 25-JAN-06

Encyclopedia of housing / Willem Van Vliet--, editor. [0761913327 (cloth)] Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1998.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks HD7287 .E53 1998

tagged encyclopedias housing toread urban urbs200 by laallen ...on 24-JAN-06
tagged housing planning income by jn ...and 1 other person ...on 17-JAN-06
tagged census new_york planning housing by jn ...on 17-JAN-06