Apartment City

RIO DE JANEIRO ― Seven years ago, Vila Autódromo was little more than a tranquil fishing village on the edge of Jacarepagua Lagoon, next to the racetrack for which it was named. Like the hundreds of other favelas that dot Rio de Janeiro ’s landscape, it had long been neglected by the city government , and it lacked many basic public services that are standard in the fast- growing wealthier neighborhoods just across the water. But to the more than 600 families that lived there, it was home. “This was a paradise,” said Luiz Cláudio Silva, who lived in Autódromo for more than 20 years. “I thought that I would live here for the rest of my life.” By the time the Rio Olympics are over, just 20 of the families who lived in Autódromo in 2009, the year the International Olympic Committee chose the city to host the games, will remain. The community, which sits less than a mile away from Rio’s Olympic Park, was crushed so that the city could build new access roads to connect Olympic venues . ...

Metro Atlanta housing statistics compiled by Dorsey Alston Realtors Broker Patrick Wood show the housing market is healthy, and the strong performance should continue as Millennials shift from apartments to homes and their incomes grow. The United States experienced similar growth when Generation X shifted to a focus on families and employment in the 1990s, Wood said. Given the differences between the two — Millennials have overtaken the Baby Boomers as America’s largest generation, according to PEW Research — this could be bode well for the overall housing market and the economy. Several neighborhoods are leading the charge in metro Atlanta. The Buckhead multifamily market has taken off over the last six months, with average sale prices up 10 percent year-to-date, while the number of units sold is up 7 percent over the same period. That trend is also reflected in the Intown condominium market , where the number of units sold is up 11 percent, and the average sales price , while ...

Welcome to Curbed Comparisons , a regular column exploring what you can rent for a set dollar amount in different neighborhoods. Today we turn our eye south to Silicon Valley to as, is one person's studio is another person's townhouse? Today's price: $5,000. ↑ Since cities outside of San Francisco and Oakland don’t always have a lot of homes listed at a certain price point, Silicon Valley Comparisons casts a wider net across many towns. Wide enough to catch this “executive estate” in Gilroy, for example—a four-bed, three-and-a-half-bath, 3,500-square- foot home renting for $4,950/month. Even the garage is big enough for four cars; larger, perhaps, than many apartments with similar prices in San Francisco. And just get a load of the vineyard. Plus, not only does the ad says pets are OK, it even specifies “horses OK.” Try finding that in the city. ↑ This alleged midcentury Cupertino house calls itself the “best value” for $4,990/month, which is not quite true in this...

How the fight against displacement calls for New York City’s Asian immigrant communities to defect from the “ model minority ” narrative. Media Gallery When NYU sophomore Sam Kim attended a rally outside Manhattan’s City Hall in March, he didn’t think that he would be ushered into the spotlight. Kim had learned of the rally through the local housing organization CAAAV (Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence), which called on New Yorkers to oppose President Trump ’s proposed $6.2 billion cut to the 2018 budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This cut would dramatically reduce federal funding for New York City public housing , which currently provides rent-subsidized homes to 600,000 New Yorkers. Along the City Hall steps , Kim and two fellow student organizers joined a rare gathering of tenants from otherwise disparate peripheries of the city. Asian immigrants from Chinatown and Queens stood alongside Black and Latino residents of Brooklyn and the Bronx...

NEW YORK, NY — It's one of the oldest rivalries in American migration: New York vs. Los Angeles. For the better part of a century, residents of the nation's two largest metro areas have been defending their chosen kingdom and dismissing the other on an endless loop of judginess between kitty-corner coasts. Ew, the traffic! But the sunshine! But the subway! But the garbage! But the skyline! But the coastline! But the bustle! But the chill! In this tireless war of words, a clear winner has yet to emerge. But it's harder to argue against the numbers. Thousands of working professionals have relocated to Los Angeles County from New York City in the past year and a half, according to a series of monthly "workforce reports" released this spring and summer by the job- networking site LinkedIn (and spotted by LA Weekly). And it's not exactly a two-way street. Since early 2016, according to LinkedIn, around seven or eight out of every 10, 000 site users in LA report...