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Following our previous look at an opening for a Museum Technology Manager at the California Science Center, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Project Captain at Practice (formerly GGA+). The role... View full entry
Rhode Island is the latest U.S. state to consider the implementation of a new public development office aimed at increasing the government’s role in land acquisition, construction, and financing as it faces a housing shortage. The move would place it alongside fellow New Englanders Vermont... View full entry
Efforts currently underway to amend existing building and construction codes in order to create more affordable housing could soon be boosted via the removal of a long-held and potentially outdated requirement—the need for two egress routes in multifamily buildings with heights up to six... View full entry
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is being remembered for his impact on homebuilding across the country after his death on December 29th at the age of 100. Both he and his late wife Rosalynn Carter helped increase awareness of Habitat for Humanity’s mission after they became involved locally as... View full entry
Last week, the New York City Council voted to approve an amended version of the Adams Administration's 'City of Yes' housing vision for 80,000 new homes over the next 15 years. This will require a $5 billion public investment and comes with several key inclusionary zoning (including ADUs... View full entry
Following our previous look at an opening for a Compliance Director at AKAM, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for an architectural designer at Samara. The open role calls for an individual who will join... View full entry
The New York Times recently outlined some of the facts underpinning NYC’s housing crisis ahead of an upcoming final City Council vote on Mayor Eric Adams’ amended ‘City of Yes’ zoning overhaul plan for 80,000 new residential units on December 5th. Among the interesting takeaways... View full entry
In Britain, as our government has promised, we’re going to have a “council housing revolution”, the building of as yet unknown numbers of homes at genuinely affordable rents, a return to policies of 50 and more years ago in order to address the well-known housing crisis. Which is welcome.
Luckily there are, close at hand, outstanding examples of how this might be done, in cities and countries on the continent of Europe.
— The Guardian
Moore points to Vienna, the city known for its ambitious development model for social housing, and Barcelona as two examples of what he says is a healthy "willingness to experiment" to be applied back home in the UK. The new Labour Party government has promised to usher in a "revolution" in... View full entry
Following our previous visit to RIOS, we are keeping our Meet Your Next Employer series in Los Angeles this week to explore the work of Cover. Founded in 2014 by Cooper Union graduates Alexis Rivas and Jemuel Joseph, the company describes itself as one that offers “a turnkey... View full entry
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House, California housing advocates are bracing for how a second term could impact the state’s notoriously high home prices, rents and rates of homelessness.
This time around, that’s changed, and Trump has recognized housing affordability is a problem, said Matthew Schwartz, executive director of the policy organization the California Housing Partnership.
— KQED
Democrats were also pushing a housing-heavy agenda during the campaign. Trump's return to the White House comes as the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies reports many cities across the Golden State are missing their marks where it comes to planning an adequate housing supply that... View full entry
Under state laws designed to remedy a housing shortage, the city has to set aside land for the construction of 250,000 more homes than allowed through existing zoning rules. Measures under consideration by a City Council committee are likely to satisfy the state requirements, the UCLA analysis found. But when analyzing the likelihood of what developers would actually build, researchers found the number of new homes would be far lower. — LA Times
The L.A. City Council is expected to vote later this afternoon to approve the rezoning measure. The report's co-author Shane Phillips of the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies says the city would be better served if its generous slate of incentives was expanded to cover the... View full entry
British construction tech start-up Automated Architecture (AUAR) is sending two of its pop-up, robotic micro-factories to the U.S. for the first time in a move to bring automated and affordable house building to North America. Founded in 2019, AUAR functions by licensing its technology to builders... View full entry
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced the formation of a new multi-agency task force aimed at finding city-owned land and properties that can be redeveloped in the interest of putting an end to its greatest housing crisis in more than 50 years. According to amNewYork, the new City... View full entry
Last month, the [UK] government announced a task force to develop a strategy for new towns — settlements of more than 10,000 homes — and make recommendations for their locations within a year. The government has not set a target for the number of towns and acknowledges that they will take a long time to deliver. — The New York Times
Britain, short on more than four million homes, is mulling a revival of its post-war New Towns after a decisive Labour Party victory vaulted progressive leadership into power with a mandate to combat its ongoing housing crisis. Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently told the BBC that he is a... View full entry
New York Governor Kathy Hochul's office has proposed transforming the 100,000-square-foot former Bayview Correctional Facility in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood into affordable housing. Called Liberty Landing, the scheme is a joint venture between Camber Property Group and Osborne Association... View full entry
