We figured out how to live in an exciting kid-friendly city on the cheap.
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This fall, five articles explored important questions about the cost of housing and the need for "growth" and development in Portland, OR.
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A reliance on federal funding for housing puts local entities at the mercy of distant decision makers whose priorities may or may not be aligned with theirs. Cities and advocacy groups should be thinking about how to re-localize and claim more control over the way we tackle these problems.
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The task of moving from our bloated, modern zoning codes to ones that create Strong Towns is different from starting with a blank slate.
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If so many people live in suburbs, it must be because that’s what they prefer, right? Actually the evidence is to the contrary.
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The Cato Institute recently published an article claiming that cash-strapped millennials in Seattle should look instead to Houston for affordable homes. There's a lot wrong with that argument.
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Our job as Strong Towns advocates is to share our message with our friends, neighbors and others in our communities, to keep bringing the conversation back to the persistent fact that our current approach is not working financially. We’re broke and so we must start thinking differently.
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A fetish with density is spiking the rising tide of housing demand in cities like Portland. To make housing affordable, we have to deal with the cause of the spike.
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When the issue of housing affordability comes up again and again, it is always tied to the agreed upon narrative that Portland is growing and will continue to grow, world without end. I don't buy that.
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Questioning 4 common arguments about why housing is unaffordable in Portland.
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Two case studies show how rural design can be sustainable, affordable and attractive.
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Evicted is a powerful book with important lessons for those who design, govern and live in American cities and towns.
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The White House takes aim at some of the our cities' worst development practices.
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Breaking down the numbers to construct a truly affordable housing model.
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Trailer parks remain one of the last forms of housing in US cities provided by the market explicitly for low-income residents.
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Tiny homes are one way to increase housing options and improve affordability, but they also present numerous zoning and regulatory challenges for the entrepreneurial spirits trying to build them.
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My attempts to build a tiny home have been thwarted by a hostile regulatory environment at every turn. So here's what I did instead.
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Feel-good programs like inclusionary zoning are mostly a token response to a problem of much more substantial dimension.
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Earlier this year, I wrote about the rash of tear-downs of vacant housing in Baltimore, MD. Now it seems the city may be headed in a better direction.
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When there is demand to live in an area, the market should naturally respond by increasing the supply of housing.
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