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As teachers, cooks, cashiers, and bus drivers are being priced out of Charlotte, one question looms: How does a growing, thriving city in modern America keep housing affordable for its working-class citizens? By RACHEL JONES Published: 2017.08.23 06:21 AM Jacqueline Ingram (middle) works full-time at the Ross Dress For Less distribution center in Rock Hill. But in this booming region, her salary isn’t enough to comfortably buy a home for her and her kids, 12-year-old Nya and five-year-old Rejonee. PHOTOS BY ANDY MCMILLAN ONE RECENT SUNDAY AFTERNOON , Jacqueline Ingram and her two daughters explore an empty four-bedroom house for sale on a Brianna Way cul-de-sac in southwest Charlotte , filling it with their dreams along the way. “This one is mine,” 12-year-old Nya says of an upstairs bedroom with a view of the Clanton Park neighborhood . “I could put my chest over there, and my table there.” As five-year-old Rejonee sprawls out on the carpet in the room across the hall, In...

PUP Architects' 'Guerrilla Habitation' Criticizes the Housing Market The urban housing market around the world is in a fix, with even tiny apartments costing tenants exorbitant monthly fees , and PUP Architects' "guerrilla habitation" idea is a critique of the state of the market in London in particular. The project, which was an entry in the Antepavilion competition, places apartments in hidden locations in the urban landscape, including a false air duct on top of a preexisting apartment building . To be sure, the guerrilla habitation won 't actually be occupied by any resident. Rather, it's a criticism of current housing laws that prevent architects from building livable, affordable micro-housing. The micro-apartment built for Antepavilion is called H-VAC, as it's designed to look like the HVAC system on top of apartment buildings around the city (thus evading the regulatory gaze of city officials.)

Natalie Marra benefited from the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA), a provision in the District that provides strong protection for tenants to avoid a forced move. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) Four years ago, when her apartment building at 1921 Kalorama Road NW in Washington was up for sale, Natalie Marra, a resident for more than 30 years, was determined to stay in the home she loves. “It took almost two years of tough negotiating, but there was a core group of seven of us in the tenant association that worked with a lawyer to make sure our rights were protected,” Marra says. “We negotiated the right to live in our apartments under rent control for the rest of our lives. Believe me, none of us ever plan to move now. Why would we? We have great renovated apartments and low rent.” Marra and her neighbors benefited from the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA), a provision in the District that provides strong protection for tenants to avoid a forced move. Elder...

null A major Evansville apartment complex is the focus of an on-line petition to shut it down after the recent case of a teenager found dead . The petition on Change.org calls for Mayor Lloyd Winnecke to shut down the Woodland Park Apartments and find better housing for current residents . Jeremy Wakefield, a former resident at the complex says he started it to start a conversation, and to start action at improving living conditions . It comes more than a day after Caleb Luckett was found dead in one of the apartments. "I just remember it was a much nicer neighborhood at the time," says Wakefield, recalling his time living at the apartment complex . "I do remember it wasn't anything like it is now." For wakefield, the memory of recent incidents cloud those he had growing up at Woodland Park. "After this recent death that happened, it really sparked me to do something about it, and I wanted to start a conversation," he says The petition states Wood...

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The Late Victorian period in the United States—roughly the last third of the 19th century—produced some of the most beautiful neighborhoods in the history of Western civilization . It also produced some of the most hopeless slums. In response to the crisis of industrial cities, the modern discipline of city planning emerged . The tools of this new profession helped clean up many unhealthy aspects of urban industry , but also stifled some of the best innovations of Late Victorian urbanism . By the 1920s, planners in the industrial world had established the legal authority to promulgate land-use regulations, and over the next generation, they succeeded at slowing the construction of slum housing and segregating noxious industries from incompatible activities, such as housing and office space. Through some of the same devices, however, planners curtailed some positive features of 19th- century urbanism , including the rich variety of free- form industrial development and the adaptiv...