Multigenerational housing is on the rise. What does it mean for our families and our cities?
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The current climate of distrust and pushback against new development is a recipe for perpetual housing problems.
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Housing options become even more scarce when the value of property is no longer tethered to the local labor market.
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Prepare to have your stereotypes about Los Angeles destroyed in this lively, engaging conversation with writer and editor, Alissa Walker.
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A new study of San Francisco’s rent control shows it raises rents for some.
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In the wake of the California wildfires, what happens next? Will these communities rebuild or abandon?
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Strong Towns member Adam Cozzette reports on a recent victory against highway widening in his California town.
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Better transit is badly needed in the Anaheim region but rather than provide that, the regional government spent millions on a shiny, new auto-oriented facility.
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In a California town, Main Street is preserved while everything around it shifts and the conditions that built Main Street are destroyed.
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Small, locally-based investments can make a big difference to help people walking and biking feel safe. Big investments from outside sources tend to have the opposite effect.
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Last week, Chuck Marohn was in Santa Ana, CA, giving presentations and hosting a walking tour as part of a Regional Active Transportation Forum.
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It's only a matter of time before California finds itself in another bust cycle, where the emergency of rising prices gives way to the catastrophe of falling prices—where the manic cycle ends and the depressive cycle begins.
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High occupancy vehicle lanes are being sold as a positive addition to our highways, but they are just another way to induce demand for roads and driving.
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Strong Towns member Morgan Goodwin serves as mayor of Truckee, CA. In this interview, he shares the way that Strong Towns has influenced his leadership and what he loves about living in Truckee.
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LA City Council candidate Josef Bray-Ali discusses his experience as a small business owner and a community organizer.
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Joe Bray-Ali shows how to view your town through the Strong Towns lens.
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To bring together "bike for leisure" and "bike for transportation" people, you need to look beyond cycling itself and find the deeper principle that has people energized in the first place: the radical idea that people should move and associate freely in the streets of any town or city.
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Recent data shows that a road diet in Los Angeles was successful in decreasing speeds and crashes while maintaining a consistent traffic volume. That may not come as a surprise to Strong Towns readers, but it did to the many critics and naysayers in the neighborhood.
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Breaking down the numbers to construct a truly affordable housing model.
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When you're faced with the choice of living in an urban neighborhood with "poor" schools, or a suburban neighborhood with "good" schools, you find a work around. That's what these entrepreneurial spirits did in San Francisco.
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