The Case for City-led Housing Retrofits in New York City
In New York City, policy discussions about housing affordability tend to focus on rent freezes, land-use reform, and public investment in new affordable housing. Yet housing …
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Industrialized Construction in New York City: Unlocking Affordably-Built Affordable Housing
Strategic investments in an innovative building approach called industrialized construction could accelerate progress toward New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s goal of constructing 200,000 new affordable, union-built, …
Neighborhood-Scale Building Decarbonization: A Toolkit for Advocates and Implementers
The dominant approach to decarbonizing homes today is for individual building owners to switch to electric appliances and, in some cases, install solar. In reality, this …
Financial Distress in the Multifamily Rental Market, and What It Means for Tenants
Financial distress in the multifamily market is on the rise in the United States, with loan delinquencies nearly doubling in the last year alone and recently …
Protection or Profit? Transformative Solutions to the Home Insurance Crisis
Across the country, the chaotic and financially ruinous aftermath of climate disasters demonstrates that reliance on traditional home insurance models is unsustainable and perpetuates inequalities. Only …
Insurers of Last Resort: Why Today’s FAIR Plans Need a Redesign to Address the Home Insurance Crisis
As extreme weather escalates, insurance prices balloon, and insurance companies refuse to renew existing policies or write new ones, insurers of last resort increasingly provide the …
Penalized: The Hidden Cost of Credit Score in Homeowners Insurance Premiums
New research from Consumer Federation of America and Climate and Community Institute shows that a typical homeowner with a low credit score will pay nearly $2,000 …
Transforming the Housing Sector with Green Industrial Policy
Read our series featuring labor, public sector, and green innovation experts on the need for a green industrial policy for housing: We Need a Green Industrial …
Green Social Housing: Lessons from Vienna
Vienna is the global capital of social housing. Over 40 percent of the city’s housing units are social housing, providing homes for the majority of the …
Shared Fates: Rising Insurance Costs in Louisiana
To understand how the home insurance crisis is affecting households across the state, we compared price quotes for a hypothetical private insurance policy that we standardized …