Leveraging the Transfer of Development Rights for housing retrofit financing: International insights and the opportunity for Spain The transition to carbon neutrality by 2050 requires energy retrofits of existing residential stock, yet Spain's retrofit rate remains at 0.1% annuall…

Can Transfer of Development Rights finance housing retrofits?
In this paper we explore adapting an urban planning instrument used worldwide to help overcome the high upfront costs keeping retrofit rates critically low in Spain (and Europe).

#housingpolicy #urbanplanning #urbaneconomics

NYC’s New Housing Approval Process Faces First Tests — Shelterforce Voters said yes to speeding up housing approvals. Now the city is putting that plan into action.

NYC voters approved a new way to fast-track affordable housing approvals. bit.ly/3QxzPU8

#AffordableHousing #NYC #HousingPolicy #LandUse #ULURP #CommunityDevelopment

A thousand KPIs blooming? Across the social housing sector, performance reporting is evolving fast. Boards are seeing more data, more dashboards, and more measures than ever before.

A thousand KPIs blooming? 🌱

Are we measuring what really matters in housing performance, or just measuring more?

👉 Read here: https://loom.ly/m0qsmTE

#SocialHousing #HousingSector #KPIs #Performance #DataDriven #Governance #Leadership #HousingPolicy #Benchmarking #Insights #Regulation

Thinkhouse library of UK housing reports Thinkhouse holds a library of the best and most innovative research pieces, policy publications and case studies on the quantity and quality of the UK's housing stock.

Now included in www.thinkhouse.org.uk :: @CASE_LSE REPORT :: Replacing Empty Spaces with Productive, Green Places :: Awaiting Editorial Panel assessment. #ukhousing #housingresearch #housingpolicy

Now included in www.thinkhouse.org.uk :: @BevanFoundation REPORT :: Tenure change: turning existing dwellings and buildings into social homes :: Awaiting Editorial Panel assessment. #ukhousing #housingresearch #housingpolicy

The UK’s Warm Homes Plan pledges £15 billion to upgrade 5 million homes with low-carbon heating.

In our latest blog, Louise King & Robert Grover explain how its success depends on putting residents’ wellbeing first 👇

blogs.bath.ac.uk/iprblog/2026...

#WarmHomesPlan #HousingPolicy #EnergyEfficiency

10 projects from Newsom's mental health bond were supposed to open in 2025. That didn't happen Projects supposed to offer mental health and substance use care to foster youth, new mothers, unhoused people and others have been delayed or cancelled.

Projects that are supposed to offer mental health and substance use care to foster youth, new mothers, unhoused people, and other vulnerable Californians have been delayed or canceled.

buff.ly/xYNeezo

#AffordableHousing #Prop1 #HomelessnessSolutions #HousingPolicy

Democratic resident control is core to PTH.

Not an advisory tenant association. Actual governance authority over the asset residents collectively own.

#HousingPolicy #EconSky #PublicPolicy #CivicInnovation

BetterToBest.github.io/research-hub/

Court Halts Demolition of NYCHA's Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE, 🚧⚖️ A judge just halted a $2B housing plan and now the fight over who controls NYC housing is front and center A Manhattan appellate court has temporarily stopped plans to demolish and redevelop the ...

⚖️🏙️ A court just stopped a major NYC housing overhaul

Behind it is a bigger fight over process, control, and the future of public housing

t.ly/KMXNR

#NYCHA #HousingPolicy #AffordableHousing #NYCRealEstate

Tinley Park committee adopts resolution opposing state changes to local home-rule zoning for housing Trustees voted to adopt a resolution opposing proposed state legislation that, they said, would limit local home-rule authority over zoning and could allow denser housing and reduce parking requirements; the committee forwarded the resolution to the board.

Tinley Park trustees are taking a stand against state legislation that threatens local control over zoning, potentially paving the way for overcrowded neighborhoods and reduced parking.

Read the full story

#TinleyParkCookCounty #IL #CitizenPortal #LocalGovAI #HousingPolicy #CommunityControl

The housing crisis is not just about supply. It is about ownership structure.

When housing is an investment vehicle, affordability will always be secondary.

PTH changes the ownership structure.

#HousingPolicy #EconSky #AffordableHousing #PublicPolicy

BetterToBest.github.io/research-hub/

The Federal Government Is Weaponizing the Fair Housing Act. We Must Fight Back. | Brian Phillips, CRS,CIPS,C2EX,AHWD,NYRS,ABR,SRS,SFR,CNE, 🚨🏠 The Fair Housing Act was meant to fight discrimination. Now some say it’s being used to investigate it in reverse. Nearly six decades after the Fair Housing Act was passed to combat discrimination...

🚨🏠 Fair housing enforcement is evolving and the ripple effects could redefine access across the market

It’s no longer just about building more housing but who can actually participate

Read more: t.ly/bY_h3

#HousingPolicy #RealEstate #FairHousing

What role should federal housing finance play in affordability?

This webinar explores how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can better align with their public mission.

Register: bit.ly/4dxHuM1

#HousingPolicy #Equity

@brookings.edu research on housing and mobility shows neighborhood effects on economic outcomes are profound.

PTH is designed to create stable community ownership in exactly those high-opportunity neighborhoods.

#HousingPolicy #EconSky #PovertyResearch

BetterToBest.github.io/research-hub/

How States Are Curbing Upfront Rental Costs - The MortgagePoint For both new and potential tenants, upfront rental expenses can be a burden. A new study from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies examines how first and last month's rent, broker fees, security...

How States Are Curbing Upfront Rental Costs

States are lowering upfront rental costs, but the money doesn’t disappear—it shifts. We’re already seeing higher rents, tighter underwriting

#RealEstateInvesting #RentalMarket #HousingPolicy #StructureBeatsRate

themortgagepoint.com/2026/04/06/s...

Thinkhouse library of UK housing reports Thinkhouse holds a library of the best and most innovative research pieces, policy publications and case studies on the quantity and quality of the UK's housing stock.

Now included in www.thinkhouse.org.uk :: @NEF REPORT :: Land that works for us :: Awaiting Editorial Panel assessment. #ukhousing #housingresearch #housingpolicy

This is where public housing becomes political ground zero. If every resident must prove citizenship or eligible status under the proposed rule, then the real fight is no longer abstract it is personal, immediate, and national.
#HUD #PublicHousing #Immigration #USPolitics #HousingPolicy #Trump #news

Public Trust Housing: Stability Through Collective Ownership A proven model operating in parallel to the private market

Community Land Trusts prove that collective ownership models work at small scale.

Public Trust Housing scales and formalizes the logic with individual equity accounts, democratic governance, and CCO integration.

#HousingPolicy #EconSky #AffordableHousing #PublicPolicy

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The Federal Housing Bill: ‘A Bunch of Tweaks, But Good Ones’ Email from Shelterforce Also, NYC’s new housing approval process is put to the test. Plus why preserving housing is harder than it should be—and more.   View in Browser Week of April 6, 2026 The Feder

Bipartisan housing bill. NYC's new approval process. A utility shutoff that raises bigger questions. And why preserving older homes is harder than it should be.

Four good reads in this week's newsletter: conta.cc/4tpPBPh

#AffordableHousing #HousingPolicy #HousingJustice

Why does wealth concentrate across generations?

Housing appreciation flows to owners, not renters.

PTH makes collective appreciation possible for communities that have historically only been renters.

#HousingPolicy #WealthInequality #EconSky #PublicPolicy

BetterToBest.github.io/research-hub/

@urbaninstitute.bsky.social has documented how the inability to build housing equity drives intergenerational poverty.

Public Trust Housing is designed to close that gap.

#HousingPolicy #EconSky #PovertyResearch

BetterToBest.github.io/research-hub/

Committee reviews major changes to landlord‑tenant law, including expedited ejectments and security‑deposit cap The Senate committee reviewed the House 'as‑passed' landlord‑tenant bill that would shorten some notice periods, create an expedited ejectment subchapter for certain safety threats, allow earlier disposal of tenant property after writs of possession, expand trespass authority, create a rental‑payment reporting pilot, and cap security deposits — with members flagging judicial separation‑of‑powers, implementation, and litigation concerns.

Vermont's Senate committee is shaking up landlord-tenant laws with expedited ejectments, stricter timelines, and new security deposit caps—are your rights at risk?

Click to read more!

#VT #TenantRights #CitizenPortal #JudicialReform #VermontHousing #HousingPolicy

The housing market has two failure modes:

1. Rentals extract wealth from residents
2. Public housing concentrates poverty

PTH proposes a third architecture: community ownership with individual equity accounts.

#HousingPolicy #EconSky #AffordableHousing

BetterToBest.github.io/research-hub/

🚨 Senate just passed a bill forcing BTR landlords to SELL their SFR homes after 7 years.

Result? Less rental supply. Higher rents. Fewer housing options.

"No one will invest under forced sale risk" — NMHC

Good policy or backfire waiting to happen?

#RealEstate #SFR #Landlord #HousingPolicy

Public Trust Housing is not public housing.

Residents own equity. Communities govern democratically. Assets appreciate collectively.

A third path between renting and owning.

#HousingPolicy #EconSky #PublicPolicy #AffordableHousing

BetterToBest.github.io/research-hub/

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Making Homeownership Affordable: Bringing Fannie and Freddie Back to Mission. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Join us as we discuss affordable housing and how two leading government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who help sustain the national housing market, can better support affordable homeownership....

Home affordability is at a 40-year low. How can this change?

Free webinar 4/16, 1p ET → bit.ly/4dxHuM1

#HousingPolicy

Thinkhouse library of UK housing reports Thinkhouse holds a library of the best and most innovative research pieces, policy publications and case studies on the quantity and quality of the UK's housing stock.

Now included in www.thinkhouse.org.uk :: @cihhousing.bsky.social REPORT :: The 2026 UK Housing Review :: Awaiting Editorial Panel assessment. #ukhousing #housingresearch #housingpolicy

To Move Past False Choices, Housing Funders Must Embrace Supply Responding to criticism of his call for funders to “take a side,” Ned Resnikoff makes a case for a grand bargain among progressive housing advocates.

Responding to criticism of his call for funders to “take a side,” Ned Resnikoff makes a case for a grand bargain among progressive housing advocates.

Guest Contributor, Ned Resnikoff Reports: tinyurl.com/34pynsj3

#HousingCrisis #AffordableHousing #YIMBY #UrbanPolicy #HousingPolicy #Philanthropy

Thinkhouse library of UK housing reports Thinkhouse holds a library of the best and most innovative research pieces, policy publications and case studies on the quantity and quality of the UK's housing stock.

Now included in www.thinkhouse.org.uk :: @housingevidence.bsky.social REPORT :: Who should own the value of land? Housing, power and the deep politics of land value capture :: Awaiting Editorial Panel assessment. #ukhousing #housingresearch #housingpolicy

Didn't he? That's naughty of the newspaper then.

Still, it's the thought and the opinion behind it that counts, I guess?

As you suggest, wanting to lower building standards isn't in the public interest... nor is the apparent disregard for public safety.

#ReformUK #housingpolicy #ukpolitics