In the last 5 years, Washington DC experienced a housing boom. It took a lot more than passive deregulation.| Washington Monthly
CHBA's 2025 Q2 Housing Market Index (HMI) saw little change since last quarter, with builders remaining decidedly pessimistic about sales conditions. CHBA’s single-family HMI is 24.9 (out of 100), and the multi-family HMI is 22.8 – both at near record lows, and firmly in negative builder sentiment territory for the twelfth straight quarter. The post Canada’s new home construction challenges ongoing amid economic uncertainty appeared first on Canadian Home Builders' Association.| Canadian Home Builders' Association
CHBA's 2025 Q1 Housing Market Index (HMI) is in its eleventh quarter of negative sentiment since dropping from the post-pandemic highs in 2021 and early 2022. While industry sentiment has been low for eleven quarters, builders have typically remained optimistic that future sales would be an improvement over their current sales conditions (though still in negative territory). However, that optimism has dissolved. The post Dim outlook for new home construction in Ontario and BC as sentiment in ...| Canadian Home Builders' Association
The Canadian Homebuilders’ Association (CHBA) has released its 2024 Municipal Benchmarking Study that examines how local development processes, approvals, and charges impact housing affordability and housing supply in major housing markets across the country. The post CHBA’s Municipal Benchmarking Study Shows Housing Affordability Has Worsened Due to Municipal Development Charges and Delays appeared first on Canadian Home Builders' Association.| Canadian Home Builders' Association
Jason M. Barr October 29, 2024 Let’s travel back a century—to New York during the Roaring Twenties. On our journey, we will see a very different Gotham–not just flappers, speakeasys, and the new jazz–but more importantly massive housing construction. Arguably, 1921 to 1929 was the greatest housing boom in New York’s history. Units of all […] The post The Housing Twenties: New York’s Biggest Building Boom and Its Lessons for Today first appeared on B...| Building the Skyline
New data released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shows that the Section 542(c) Risk Share and Federal Financing Bank (FFB) program continues to serve as a useful tool for state Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs) aiming to increase affordable housing production across the| Center for Public Enterprise
Project-based rental assistance is one of the federal government’s most powerful tools for supporting the production and preservation of affordable housing. By guaranteeing stable, long-term rental payments, these types of contracts enable housing development in markets where rents would otherwise n| Center for Public Enterprise
This week, during Public Service Recognition Week of all weeks, my social feeds are filled with tributes and reflections from friends and colleagues leaving federal service because they were either forced out or saw the writing on the wall. We are collectively losing decades upon decades of expertise and knowledge that up until now has […] The post Public Service and Imagining the Future Public Sector appeared first on Center for Public Enterprise.| Center for Public Enterprise
Jason M. Barr March 6, 2025 Note: This post is the second of two on the drivers of Gotham’s historically low vacancy rates. You can read Part I here. New York’s rental housing vacancy rate is 1.4%—the lowest since 1969. The lack of available housing means that Gotham remains in a “housing emergency”—defined, by […] The post Why Has Gotham Been in a “Housing Emergency” for 80 Years? (Part II) first appeared on Building the Skyline. The post Why Ha...| Building the Skyline
Jason M. Barr January 22, 2025 If you google the definition of “emergency,” the search engine provides a response from the Oxford Languages Dictionary: “a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.” Merriam-Webster comes in with similar wording: “an unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for immediate action.” […] The post Why Has Gotham Been in a “Housing Emergency” for 80 Year...| Building the Skyline