Rohit Naimpally (Op-Ed) wrote:
Randomized evaluations have shown the effectiveness of Housing First. For decades, most housing services required people to meet employment or sobriety requirements in order to be housed. Housing First programs do literally what they say: provide housing first, with no preconditions.
Several randomized evaluations tested Housing First programs and found tha...
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Frances McMorris wrote:
When Bloomington, Indiana, was looking to fund a recent affordable housing project, they looked outside their city — and even their state — to secure financing. A single-family home on West 9th Street near downtown Bloomington, Indiana, was renovated by Bloomington Cooperative Living to create 18 new, affordable units with funding hel...
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Kea Wilson wrote:
After interviewing more than a hundred Washington state residents with mobility challenges who can’t or don’t use a car, researchers at the Disability Rights Washington found that respondents “overwhelmingly” cited “the poor condition or absence of sidewalks” as the biggest barrier to getting where they needed to go, followed closely by problem...
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Oscar Perry Abello wrote:
The Oakland People’s Plan promises to be different. In a typical arrangement, the city would hire a consulting firm with planning experience to lead the process, and then that firm might subcontract community groups to facilitate community engagement. Instead, under the Oakland People’s Plan, the 30 groups proposed to lead th...
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Cinnamon Janzer wrote:
While the deployment of electric buses can help mitigate the air quality impacts of public transportation, transit authorities often face budgeting constraints that center cost reduction rather than equity — until now.
University of Utah researcher and associate professor Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, in cooperation with the Utah Transit Authority (UTA), recently develope...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:
While most electric vehicle owners rely on charging their cars at home, "many low-to-moderate-income people who live in apartments or affordable housing may find installing and accessing charging infrastructure is more complicated." Encouraging more widespread EV use in these communities means providing ready access to chargers for residents of multi-unit buildings. "The...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:
"What role should public spaces play as cities strive to recover more equitably? At a time when so many people and small businesses are suffering, what is the value of public space investments, and importantly, who stands to benefit from this value?" Hanna Love and Cailean Kok discuss the findings of research...
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Daniel Herriges wrote:
It's important to keep our eyes on the big picture: the system of transportation that we have built, in almost all of America post-World War II, is one in which the destinations of our day-to-day lives are too spread out from each other to be accessible by any means other than ...
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Roger Rudick wrote:
The near total dominance of cars and car infrastructure in American cities aren’t just killing us directly in crashes, it’s harming us every day through less obvious health effects. “It puts people in a constant state of stress,” said Melissa Bruntlett, co-author of Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars i...
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Laura Bliss wrote:
In May, the agency published a request for information seeking public input on a list of questions such as, “If the department were to create transportation equity indices, what key indicators should they include?” and, “What are approaches that DOT can take to ensure that individuals from underserved populations are represented in ou...
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