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As part of our EDA Atlanta region grant, IEDC created a workforce housing strategies primer for a series of workshops developed in partnership with the Eastern Carolina Council, a nine-county regional economic development district in North Carolina. Learn about missing middle housing and availability, affordability, and funding solutions, and explore case studies from communities of all sizes.

Unaffordable for-sale single-family housing is no longer a problem confined to coastal urban markets. With homebuying out of reach for about one-third of the U.S. population, cities should encourage more apartment development, which will increase needed housing supply and do well for long-term investors.

IEDC's Accredited Economic Development Organization (AEDO) program recognizes organizational excellence in the areas of internal and external operations, structures, and procedures. This series profiles newly accredited AEDOs, putting some of economic development's highest-performing organizations in the spotlight. This edition: Shiawassee (Mich.) Economic Development Partnership.

Aaron N. Gruen, principal of the urban-economics, market-research, land-use policy, and pre-development services firm Gruen Gruen + Associates, shares his thoughts on how to combat skyrocketing gas and housing costs.

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, February sales of single-family homes dropped by 18.2 percent from January, a nine-month low for the market. The average home price was $416,000, which is much higher than in February 2020. Supply is falling and prices are rising as a result, making it overwhelmingly a seller’s market. The question is, why is supply so low? According to an article from the New York Times, there are a few reasons why supply is falling. First, new home construction dropped drastically after the 2008 housing crisis and has not returned to previous levels. Housing mortgage rates have also been steadily declining for the past 40 years, giving people a chance to stay in the same place for longer. Consumer ...

In a departure from the approach Amazon followed to identify its second headquarters, Google is negotiating with San Jose, Calif., officials over its plan to create a transit-oriented urban campus in the city’s downtown for 20,000, or more, workers. The tech giant opted against starting a bidding war among cities or pursuing tax breaks and, instead, is entertaining San Jose’s demands to include a significant amount of below-market rate housing in the project. Discussions between Google and the city over affordable housing and whether the company will operate a private bus service echo previous battles that have played out in Silicon Valley over the expansion plans of other tech firms. San Jose, considered the stepchild of ...