Buying a home today may not be the life-long investment it has been in the past.
adminFebruary 4, 2014
Richard Florida’s column in The New York Times on the widening gap between the D.C. economy, with its robust housing and job markets, and the rest of America. What’s the key?
adminJune 3, 2011
Richard Florida is back with a good piece in the New Republic titled Roadmap to a High Speed Recovery. There, Florida opines that America needs to stop subsidizing what he calls the “auto-housing-suburban complex.”
adminAugust 29, 2010
Richard Florida says owning a home may actually be a drawback given the economic flexibility required to power long-lasting recovery. He and his colleagues tracked homeownership levels across U.S. cities and regions to see how they correlate to other measurable demographic and economic factors.
adminJune 16, 2010
Individuals and the country would be better off if we had fewer home owners and more renters, Richard Florida writes in the Wall Street Journal.
adminJune 14, 2010
Since 2007, Americans have suffered through the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression. Florida is among a growing number of researchers who think that these are signs that the United States is becoming a nation of renters, and that the shift could be good for our pocketbooks, the economy and even our happiness.
adminApril 12, 2010
Why are Americans becoming less nomadic? Greater labor mobility helps the economy, but are there other kinds of effects — negative or positive — related to a more rooted population? Is there an upside to more Americans staying closer to their hometowns?
adminJanuary 12, 2010
Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander argue that artists, bohemians and gays affect housing values through two kinds of mechanisms: an aesthetic-amenity premium; and a tolerance or open culture premium.
adminJuly 11, 2009
There Goes the Neighborhood : How and Why Bohemians, Artists and Gays Affect Regional Housing Values
This report authored by Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander examines the effects these populations have on increasing housing values in the neighborhoods and communities they inhabit.
adminMay 27, 2009
According to the cover story in the March edition of The Atlantic, renting benefits the economy. The article, written by Richard Florida, says that renters aren’t tied down to one location, so they’re freer to move from town to town as emerging industries and new jobs dictate. The also don’t have the long-term burden of a mortgage.
adminApril 30, 2009
The prediction of death to the American dream of owning a home is replaced by a new landscape of technological and scientific prosperity as seen by writer Richard Florida in his article “How the crash will reshape America”.
adminApril 9, 2009
The purpose of policy is to produce certain results, but, frequently, once in place, changes in policies are resisted even when conditions require them. Take two examples that have become more obvious in recent days, one with respect to health care, another to housing and home ownership.
adminMarch 16, 2009
Richard Floridais quick to distinguish between good gentrification and bad in discussing the city of Brooklyn and its hipness.
adminMarch 16, 2009
Homeownership has been a central tenet of a ‘richer and fuller life’ in the USA, but foreclosures are severely testing this model. A possible solution: Rent these homes as a first step toward a more affordable, flexible housing system.
adminMarch 10, 2009
Renting has seldom looked so good as now, as homeownership is increasingly associated with instability and fear.
adminMarch 1, 2009
In The Atlantic, economist Richard Florida takes a long view of the world economy. He says that long depressions are opportunities for the economy to reset itself. During these hard times, large numbers of people change their economic lives, taking the country into a new economic era.
adminFebruary 25, 2009
Lately some have been advocating that the government stop subsidizing home ownership, arguing that it locks people to a place, and when the economy goes sour people need the flexibility to go where the jobs are.
adminFebruary 25, 2009
Richard Florida, in The Atlantic Monthly article argues that the key to recovery from the housing bubble and financial crash is to remove homeownership “from its long-privileged place at the center of the U.S. economy.”
adminFebruary 23, 2009
Marshall Feldman and Richard Florida, Book Chapter in Government and Housing: Developments in Seven Countries. Urban Affairs Annual Reviews no. 36 by Willem van Vliet and Jan van Weesep (editors) – 1990
adminAugust 12, 2007
By Robert Burchell, James Carr, Richard Florida, and James Nemeth, Center for Urban Policy Research – 1984
adminAugust 2, 2007
Richard Florida (editor), New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research – 1986
adminMay 21, 2007