Opinion | How Tokyo Achieves Affordable Housing
Yuta Yamasaki and his wife moved from southern Japan to Tokyo a decade ago because job prospects were better in the big city. They now have three sons — ages…
Opinion | Seniors Need More Housing. ADUs Are a Start.
About a decade ago, Megan Parrish began worrying about her mother, Pat Dalrymple. Ms. Dalrymple, now 68, was living alone in Lake Arrowhead, a mountainous resort area in California, and…
A D.C. Suburb Finds a Creative Answer to America’s Housing Shortage
The Laureate is one of those apartment buildings that developers love to build and anti-gentrification types love to hate. Marketed as “inspired living,” it sits outside Washington, D.C., across the…
For Some Culture Executives, a Housing Perk Is Rolled Back
For years the Metropolitan Museum of Art housed its directors in a $5 million apartment on Fifth Avenue, where they lived for free and paid no taxes on that benefit.…
How China Made Its Housing Crisis Worse
In China the pension akin to Social Security in the United States pays about $410 a month to seniors who live in cities, and only $25 a month in the…