The only thing hotter than this heat wave? It’s the Housing News Round-up, Duh! Enjoy with a hot jam and a cold drink:

Duncan Black jumps into the gentrification discussion occurring in the housing blogosphere this week, sides with Ta-Nehesi.

HUD’s own @TiffanyTS_HUD mixed it up a bit too, check her timeline for review.

Ezra Klein on the latest Krugman column making the point that housing=jobs.

The Hill’s Vick Needham dissects the latest housing numbers.

And our public housing has a “severe backlog in capital need.”