Charles Montgomery wrote:
A few years ago, a few dozen of us came together to launch an experiment that we hoped would tackle middle-class housing affordability, social disconnection, and climate change all in one go. We set out to create our own village in the heart of the city, a place designed to nurture friendshi...
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Richard Day wrote:
UCLA professor and parking expert Donald Shoup estimates that in Chicago an above-ground parking spot costs about $29,000 to build, and an underground spot comes in at a cool $36,000. And because those minimum parking rules force builders to create a large number of extra empty spots, the actual rate buildings ca...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:
In an article published by the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Mike Nichols, president and CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County, outlines the success the city has had in reducing homelessness and the steps necessary to "effectively end" it. According to Nichols, the three-county homeless response system know...
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Daniel Herriges wrote:
The best American examples of top-notch urbanism are mostly places inhabited by well-to-do Americans, and their real-estate prices and rents are usually prohibitive for most others. This includes the majority of places that are currently walkable, bikeable, have attractive human-scale architecture, have attractive greenery, aren't pockmarked with parking lots, and are ful...
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Oscar Perry Abello wrote:
Slated to finish construction and open its doors in early 2022 (there’s even a live webcam feed of the construction site), Commongrounds Cooperative will have space for an independent coffee roaster, a local craft distillery, a food hall with a shared commercial kitchen for hourly rental, a childcare facility, a performin...
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James Brasuell wrote:
Radical Rethink: Couple Mobility and Housing
To solve this Gordian Knot, mobility and housing could be and should be coupled. Many of America’s largest cities have major interchanges usually with adjacent unused patches of land. Using the city of Los Angeles as an example, some of its major interchanges include the 405/10...
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Daniel Herriges wrote:
At the root of any ecosystem you’ll find a food chain. Start with the question of what resources are available (i.e., sunlight, water, nitrogen and other nutrients). Everything else, while not entirely determined by that, ultimately has to follow from it.
For development, finance is fertilizer. Most of the developers I spok...
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Cinnamon Janzer wrote:
Tucked into the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay, Norfolk, Virginia, is a city of neighborhoods that range from beachfront enclaves to suburban cul-de-sacs and turn-of-the-century historic districts. What they all have in common, though, is a missing middle—housing that is neither a single-family home nor a massive apartment building, but smalle...
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MBomis wrote:
Until recently, housing policy discussions rarely included conversations about zoning. However, Utah’s extraordinary demographic and economic growth has brought zoning to the forefront of housing policy discussions. It has become apparent that although zoning restrictions may confer benefits, they also raise housing prices. By changing those policies to make them less restrictive, w...
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MBomis wrote:
There is no one singular solution to Utah’s Housing Crisis. Rather, the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute has identified five “best practices” for meeting the housing affordability challenge in Utah. This article will explain how transit-oriented developments not only increases affordable housing but also decreases transportation costs, is good for the environment an...
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