Ep. 10: Starfish Solutions: What can we do if we try?
In the series finale, we examine how to get people who aren’t directly affected by vacant housing to care about finding a solution. How do you focus p...
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Housing blight — concentrated areas of vacant properties in cities, rural areas and suburbs — is associated with everything from poverty to crime to health disparities. But governments seem powerless to turn it around. We're finding out why. A special 10-part podcast series by American Banker.
Ep. 9: Marshall Plan: How to Fix Vacant Housing
If housing blight costs money, renovating vacant housing and creating new affordable housing also costs money. Where might that investment come from? ...
Ep. 8: Sweat Equity: What Does it Cost to Build a Home?
The crisis in affordable housing has its roots in the high cost of building entry-level single-family homes. But why does it cost so much to build a h...
Ep. 7: "You're either growing or you're dying"
Small towns across the country struggle with vacant housing as much as cities, even though some of those places have plenty of jobs. Geography and a d...
Ep.6: The New Blue Collar Job
People need jobs to afford housing, but how can cities attract more jobs to places that need them the most? And what happens to a neighborhood when dr...
Ep. 5: The American Dream: Is Homeownership Really the Answer?
The 2008 financial crisis nearly destroyed the global economy, and was driven by an asset bubble in what has been among the most secure financial prod...
Ep. 1: “Do You Hear Me?": How Blight Is Hurting America
Poverty. Crime. Vacant housing isn't just about empty homes and abandoned lots. It's a problem that is blighting communities across the United States....
Ep. 2: Dead Pledge: The Rise and Fall of Urban Homesteading
The idea of urban homesteading was supposed to shore up flagging cities in the 1970’s and 1980’s, but why did it fall short? An examination of how hom...
Ep. 3: Building From Strength: Inside Cities’ Battle Against Blight
What does it take to combat vacancy in neighborhoods where it has taken hold? A look into one neighborhood in Baltimore that has bucked the trend, and...
Ep. 4: “Brown in a Different Way”: The Gentrification Dilemma
What happens when neighborhood revitalization is too successful? Some cities have managed to eliminate their vacant housing problems. But now many of ...