Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy

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Aug 14, 2025	Looking to use a federal housing voucher in Colorado? It’s a coin flip whether you’ll be able to redeem it	The Colorado Division of Housing saw its 55.5% success rate in 2018 dip to 34.4% in 2021 and tick back up to 46.2% in 2022. That means fewer than half of the people awarded vouchers through the state’s housing arm that year found suitable h...
Jun 29, 2025	Opinion: Alex Schwartz: What if universal rental assistance were implemented to deal with the housing crisis?	A financial sinkhole Just how expensive are rents in the U.S.? According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, a household that spends more than 30% of its income on housing is deemed to be cost-burdened. If it spends mor...
Jun 2, 2024	Commentary \| Opinion: Brian J. Connolly: Colorado takes a new – and likely more effective – approach to the housing crisis By Brian J. Connolly	By Brian J. Connolly In recent years, Colorado has been a poster child for the U.S. housing crisis. Previously a relatively affordable state, it has seen home prices increase nearly sixfold over the past three decades, outstripping even Flo...
Mar 3, 2024	A crucial abortion access lifeline is hanging by a thread	This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Redeem now Around dawn on any given Saturday morning in 2022, the sidewalk in front of the squat buildin...
Oct 4, 2023	The sure-fire way to save America’s cities? Do what Tokyo does.	Redeem now Cities across the US are flailing under a worsening housing affordability crisis. Superstar metropolises from Los Angeles to Miami are becoming playgrounds for the elite. Americans fleeing New York and San Francisco for more affo...
Sep 15, 2023	Commentary \| Guest opinion: Marjorie Kelly: End wealth supremacy	By Marjorie Kelly It’s been 15 years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The investment firm’s startling downfall marked the beginning of a historic Wall Street crash that swiftly wiped out over $7 trillion in home equity and $2.8 trilli...
Jul 20, 2023	Photo of Connecticut McDonald's $18 Big Mac meal sparks debate online	An image of McDonald's menu this week went viral because people couldn't believe the prices depicted. Twitter user Sam Learner says he snapped the photo at a McDonald's located at a Connecticut rest stop. In the photo, a Big Mac combo meal ...
Jun 21, 2023	DataDigest: The homebuilders are busy. But they’re not busy enough	The existing home sales market is a face on a milk carton, and homebuilders are salivating at the opportunity to meet strong consumer demand. So why aren’t they? New data from the U.S. Census Bureau speaks to the growing strength of the new...
Dec 4, 2022	Brooklyn man claims landlord is trying to push him out of his $450 apartment with live chickens running in yard and green liquid seeping from the ceiling	The Crown Heights Tenant Union hosted a rally for Roberts (center) along with the Crown Heights Care Collective to protest the 77-year-old's living conditions. Scott Heins/Crown Heights Tenant Union Francis Roberts, 77, is suing his landlor...
Jun 28, 2022	Mayor’s Plan Will Continue New York City’s Support For Affordable Housing Development	Drone footage of Bronx Ariel Property Advisors
Apr 28, 2021	The Moment To Close The Affordable Housing Gap Is Now: Here’s How We Can Start	CEO at Lincoln Avenue Capital, one of the nation’s fastest-growing developers, investors, and operators of affordable housing.
Jan 19, 2021	Cops Arrest Essential Union Workers Striking for $1 Raise	On Monday night, police officers arrested peaceful striking workers at the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market in New York City who were demanding a small hourly raise from management. More than 1,400 workers at the market are on strike aft...
Nov 24, 2020	New York’s Covid Comeback Must Target Equitable Growth	NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 20: People wearing masks walk past the newly opened holiday windows at ... [+] Macy's Herald Square on November 20, 2020 in New York City. The pandemic has caused long-term repercussions throughout the tourism ...
Jul 16, 2020	[PULSE] HUD should back away from changes to disparate impact rule	If there is one thing to be learned from the #BlackLivesMatter eruption this year, it is that race and racism remain as an alarming and polarizing social chasm that has never been fully addressed. From the founding fathers who debated and y...
Jul 9, 2020	25 percent of NYC renters have not made payments since March	More On: Coronavirus in NY Checked out: NY hotel tourism business has long way to recovery, study says Hochul again delays air filter mandate in nail salons, citing pandemic's impact Here's where you still need a mask after judge voids fede...
Apr 16, 2019	Landlords could not ban Section 8 tenants under proposed L.A. ordinance	The Los Angeles City Council is expected to vote Wednesday to draft an ordinance that would bar landlords from establishing blanket bans on tenants with Section 8 vouchers. The law would extend protections against so-called source-of-income...
Mar 29, 2019	Housing vouchers can save people from homelessness. But landlords may not accept them	When Kimberly Dominique received her Section 8 voucher in September, she thought it was the ticket to move out of the Ford Focus she and her 29-year-old son called home. But Dominique, a 66-year-old stroke survivor, spent months contacting ...
Oct 9, 2014	A Conversation on Future Urbanism, Tech Hubs	It was a really interesting selection of panelists with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, former New York City director of planning Amanda Burden and Zappo’s CEO Tony Hsieh, who has been struggling to revive downtown L...
Aug 26, 2014	Mortgages: Has Dodd-Frank failed?	Four years have now passed since Dodd-Frank was enacted and it's fair to ask if Wall Street Reform has been a success or failure. The general complaints regarding Dodd-Frank can be broken down this way: The legislation is too complex and to...
May 7, 2014	Reality Check: New York City Is Already More Affordable (For The Poor) Than Most American Cities	This week New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled his housing plan, making good on his campaign promise to expand the city's efforts to increase affordable housing. Here's the funny thing about New York: it's actually already doing bett...
	Renters are behind $3,700 in rent, on average. This map shows a state breakout	How much renters were set back by the pandemic varies sharply between states and counties. The typical debt in Alabama is $2,700. In Washington state, it’s closer to $4,500. In some areas, renters face a much larger debt.
	Opinion: Easing GSE credit score requirements raises risk concerns	At a time when lack of affordability is a major issue for prospective homebuyers, eliminating minimum credit score requirements in GSE automated underwriting may sound like a great idea to expand credit access. However, there’s a reason the...
	Billions in aid still available to struggling renters	More than $30 billion in rental assistance still hasn’t been spent. What renters need to know about navigating the at-times convoluted and difficult application process.

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Parsers VC has collected 24 articles mentioning Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, among them “Looking to use a federal housing voucher in Colorado? It’s a coin flip whether you’ll be able to redeem it” (Aug 14, 2025) and “Opinion: Alex Schwartz: What if universal rental assistance were implemented to deal with the housing crisis?” (Jun 29, 2025).

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Yes, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 21, 2025.