Many cities in the United States are experiencing a housing crisis, with pressure growing for someone to find a solution. But is an official solution even possible? With dysfunctional institutions and a divided culture, the “solution” might come down to individuals doing what they can in the moment.
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Frequent power outages in California give pause to reflect on the overall fragility of our built environment.
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When you’re not allowed to build the kind of housing you want, sometimes you have to work with what’s already here.
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If we don’t dismiss Las Vegas as just a tacky tourist trap, what can we learn from its architecture?
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This walking tour in Sacramento, CA, reveals much about its past and present challenges with housing.
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Small-scale developer Johnny Sanphillippo shares tales of Californians employing simple, low-cost, high-yield measures to get by amidst the housing crisis.
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In Monopoly, there are only two types of real estate: houses and hotels. But were hotels understood differently in 1904, when the game was first created?
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Johnny Sanphillippo takes a break from writing about his current real-estate activities to talk about how he first bought property when he was younger and infinitely poorer.
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Real-world examples of the administrative friction that holds back small-scale developers.
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This architect demonstrates how there are so many places ready and waiting to become a part of the housing solution—if we would just allow them.
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California's Senate Bill 9 has sparked controversy, mainly among owners of single-family homes. But are we returning to historic forms of housing anyway, with or without state legislation?
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What can we do at the most immediate, local level when water reservoirs run low?
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What can we learn about the housing market and corporations buying back their own stock...through anecdotal references? (As it turns out, quite a lot!)
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Somehow, as a society, we’ve drifted from ordinary people being able to build their own homes on a cash basis in an interactive, iterative way, to immense, hyper-elaborate habitats.
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Exploring the property market in Appleton, WI, reveals the ephemeral nature of the North American development pattern.
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The society that built Main Street is long gone. Is it time to move on to Plan B?
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Let's talk about public facilities. What do they say about our cities and about the various layers of our society?
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The “Takings Clause” prohibits the government from taking private property without just compensation. But what if it’s interpreted in unexpected ways?
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Lack of affordability, the gap between the rich and poor, strained public infrastructure: California’s problems are now becoming Texas’s problems.
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Halifax spent decades pursuing the fragile-making suburban experiment. How should it move forward from here?
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