Housing

An apartment building at 509 Vine St., known as the Boekel building, is turning into a new kind of hotel.

The city’s Shared Public Spaces program was so successful, stakeholders are expanding its reach.

The project was originally planned with an affordable housing component, but is now being pitched to investors as a luxury property.

In place of brick, builders are embracing new materials and wood-frame construction. The reasons why come down to changing economic, cultural and environmental dynamics.

From bungalows to skyscrapers, farmhouses to condos, brownstones to corner shops, buildings define the spaces of our lives. They are our ...

Among the telltale signs are: questionable judgment; willingness to take on backbreaking labor; inability to delegate tasks. And stress, lots of stress.

The inefficiencies of steam have gone unchecked for years. But now, that may change. Earlier this year, New York City passed a landmark law to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions

Some developers ignore permits, then keep on building.

The Flats is in the midst of a major $100 million project to tear down and rebuild more than 400 affordable housing units over ten years.

City Councilmember Blondell Reynolds Brown said the issues delaying a vote on a controversial regulation have been resolved. Landlords aren’t happy.

One of Philly’s last surviving public housing towers is moving towards demolition. Many tenants say the time is right.

Nonprofit developer Stephanie Sena will test her model for low-cost, infill housing on vacant land acquired from the Philadelphia Land Bank in 2018.

As temperatures soar and Philly officials invite residents to cool off in air-conditioned city buildings, Maryland lawmakers want to mandate landlords provide AC at home.

A new housing code proposed by the city aims to hold slumlords accountable to clean up dilapidated and vacant homes.

The bipartisan legislation extends foreclosure protection and mortgage relief programs for certain Superstorm Sandy-impacted homeowners.