The $546,000 Door
Build America, Buy America has the right goal. For affordable housing, it raises costs deals can’t absorb and stalls the homes America needs. Here’s the fix.
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Build America, Buy America has the right goal. For affordable housing, it raises costs deals can’t absorb and stalls the homes America needs. Here’s the fix.
How Davis-Bacon wage mandates, skilled labor shortages, and immigration policy are increasing multifamily development costs and constraining workforce housing production
Water leaks quietly cost the multifamily sector billions every year. New research suggests we should be fixing them a lot faster than we currently do.
Two buildings, a mile apart: the affordable one cost 33% more per unit and took five years longer to build than the luxury high-rise. Here's why.
Water rates are climbing 2.5x faster than inflation, and leaky pipes, not resident behavior, are the real culprit draining billions from multifamily budgets.
Two buildings, a mile apart: the affordable one cost 33% more per unit and took five years longer to build than the luxury high-rise. Here's why.
NEPA's rigid, outdated implementation is undermining its own environmental goals while making affordable housing significantly more expensive to build.
Labor costs jumped more than 12% in a single year and now eat up 25 to 40% of development budgets. Here's what can be done to ease the pressure.
Reducing the actual cost of building housing, not just adding more subsidy, is the real fix needed to close the nation's affordable housing supply gap.