Thriving places are built by the people who live in them, and the strongest reforms are ones that empower these people to shape their own futures. Here are some of the people who are thriving because of their cities' empowering housing policies.
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Multigenerational living was common before restrictive zoning laws made it illegal to have more than one household in a single-family home. By letting homeowners convert existing houses into duplexes or triplexes, cities can give residents the flexibility to live where they want at a price they can afford.
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Emily Hutcheson is a bike advocate in San Antonio, Texas, and a mom of three. She joins Tiffany on this episode of The Bottom-Up Revolution to discuss some of the initiatives she’s spearheaded to improve bike infrastructure in her city, including a bike club and bike bus.
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Chuck discusses housing with Cullum Clark, director of the Economic Growth Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute. They talk about why there is so much resistance to new development and ways that officials and advocates could engage with the public to reduce that resistance.
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The way we design our places forms a lesson in being in that space. Children learn important lessons from third places that bring us together — lessons they can’t learn in private spaces like yards that isolate us in the name of privacy.
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A mysterious plastic sign appeared on a Houston street, raising the speed limit to 60 mph — double the actual limit. Drivers didn’t seem to notice the difference.
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Megan Kimble, journalist and author of “City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways,” joins us to talk about highway expansion in Texas and the groups fighting to stop it.
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When COVID-19 put her career on pause, opera singer Ally Smither found a new passion: fighting highway expansion.
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At 75, she didn’t think she’d spend her time fighting freeways, but that’s exactly where Susan Graham finds herself. Founder of Stop TxDOT I-45, Graham has been fighting highway expansion in Houston for almost five years — and she’s nowhere near done. (Get to know Graham before she brings her knowledge to the national stage at the Strong Towns National Gathering, May 14-15!)
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Houston’s fiscal problems are less critical than other major cities with large budget shortfalls—yet, their mayor is correct when he said his city is broke, that the financial approach of the city is clearly not working. Here’s why.
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Monte Anderson is a local developer who sees it as his mission to revive his community—not only through neighboring relationships, but also by saving the abandoned and broken spaces.
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Dallas wasn't built for the car: it was paved over for it. This new bill can help it rebuild.
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Local officials in Dallas are considering eliminating minimum parking requirements in the city—and predictably, the measure has both critics and proponents.
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In the last three years alone, this San Antonio intersection has seen more than 20 crashes—several of them fatal. How long do residents have to wait before something is done about it?
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We should think of city blocks like tapestries.
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Adam Greenfield and Bobby Levinski are part of the grassroots movement Rethink35, which is filing a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Transportation over their plans to expand I-35 in Austin.
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Adam Greenfield and Miriam Schoenfield are doing some of the most challenging work an advocate can take on in their city: fighting a massive highway expansion project.
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No thanks to parking mandates, it took two years of fighting to get this local coffee shop open in Dallas…but even then, it wasn’t a total win for its owner.
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Why does TxDOT bother inviting Houston residents to come comment on the North Houston Highway Improvement Project…if they are going to make it so hard to actually do so?
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Freeway fighters in Houston are going up against a grim truth in highway expansion projects: that those most impacted by them are almost always the most marginalized in the decision-making process.
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