New Orleans Sadly, it’s not just an aberration in my own neighborhood where bizarrely the “not in my back yard” crowd fought fiercely to block the return of affordable housing to a long established Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) site. It seems to be almost everywhere in big American cities with increasingly entitled, …
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Silicon Valley Bay Area, a Housing Affordability Crisis Engulfing Everyone
San Francisco I have housing market fatigue. Everyone rich, poor, and in the middle have a housing prices horror story throughout northern California. No one seems untouched from the impact of this crisis, and it dominates almost every conversation. A friend told me she was visiting Birmingham for the first time to spent time with …
Boomer or Bust?
New Orleans I know we talk a lot about inequality, particularly the oceanic gulf between the 1% and the rest of us, and all of this is certainly true. At the same time, I’m starting to worry a bit about the “boomer affect” and what this is also doing to create a fair sized …