A recent CNBC documentary features Strong Towns insights from Charles Marohn about why suburban development is so risky.
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Suburbia was an experiment—an experiment in the service of building lots of housing very quickly.
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Increasingly, for entire cities in the U.S., buying a starter home on a modest income is no longer an option.
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We often speak to the “good old days” as a measure of the U.S. at its best…but in 1950, the average American home was 983 square feet, as opposed to the 2,300 square feet of today.
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Are Wall Street-backed investors the reason you can’t afford a house? The truth is a bit more complicated than that.
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Finally, homes for people will no longer be conditional on car parking.
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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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Social housing is not a silver bullet, but can be part of a broader vision for a fairer and more responsive housing market.
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For too long, our housing policy has put investor returns and macroeconomic goals over the universal human need for shelter. The Strong Towns approach to incremental housing is a badly needed corrective.
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Why isn’t social housing the silver bullet it's sometimes sold as, and what it would take to be successful? (Hint: You still have to fix the market.)
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Forget what you've heard; this isn't your granddad's social housing.
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In the realm of urban planning, there’s plenty of discourse out there about housing affordability—but what about household wealth building?
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Two charts illustrate the massive housing shortage in Buncombe County, NC, and show why we need to get property taxes right.
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One of the easiest ways we can have more housing that more people can afford is to allow that housing to be built in the first place. In other words, we need to readdress our zoning codes.
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We keep looking for villains to blame for the housing affordability crisis—but are we pointing fingers at the wrong culprits?
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This catalog is a primer on house hacking, with plenty of real-life examples of how it is done.
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Even if you yourself are able to live in a walkable area, you can’t choose where your loved ones live. And as this author describes, that adds to the difficulties of caring for an ailing parent.
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We’ve explored why new housing is so expensive…but why is it often the same case for used 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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