5 articles curated by the Wagner Planner staff:
New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up So Much? (Curbed) – “But while USPS data can’t give an exact count of how many people are in the city right now, it’s still a solid indicator for broad migration trends. It agrees directionally with the Census Bureau’s estimates, which show that the city’s population has been shrinking since 2016. And it correlates with other metrics such as declines in public- and private-school enrollments (down 9.5 and 3.6 percent, respectively, since 2019), subway ridership, and restaurant patronage.”
Apartments Vanish From New York’s Rent Regulation System and Questions Linger About How (THE CITY) – “The building’s June 2019 property tax bill listed all 16 apartments as rent stabilized. But the owner documented just 10 stabilized apartments in 2020 and then six apartments each year after..”
The Climate Impact of Your Neighborhood, Mapped (NYT) – ““Anyone who cares about climate policy really needs to pay a lot more attention to housing,” said Zack Subin, a senior associate at RMI’s urban transformation program.”
Can 3-D Printing Help Solve the Housing Crisis? (The New Yorker) – “Ingels played around with designing a house that could be entirely printed, including the roof. “You get forms that look incredibly fresh,” he told me. “These mixes of squares and domes, these ‘squomes.’ ” They reminded him of the domed houses of Puglia, in Italy, which are built out of limestone boulders, and of Luke Skywalker’s hut on Tatooine, but they also looked entirely themselves..”
New Lives in the City: How Taleban have experienced life in Kabul (AAF) – “A large number of Taleban fighters have moved to Afghanistan’s cities since the movement’s capture of power, many of them seeing life in the city for the first time in their lifetime. These fighters, many of whom are from villages, had lived modest lives, entirely focused on the war. Their circumstances have changed entirely since the Taleban’s victory..”
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