Community, Growth and Housing

Auburn, Maine decided scarce housing was holding the city back; what they did has lessons for communities of every size.

Last month, we invited you to answer our short survey on how you view housing affordability in your city. Here...

Big cities — despite the values of propinquity, density, and scale — are simply not where most Americans want to...

Big cities — despite the values of propinquity, density, and scale — are simply not where most Americans want to...

Property owner is not contesting that she failed to pay her property taxes, nor is she trying to evade responsibility...

Since the 1950s the focus of suburban development has largely been on the separation by function: residential from commercial and...

It's only been since early November when voters in St. Paul, Minnesota, approved a sweeping rent control ballot initiative, but...

Civil asset forfeiture continues in some states because of the federal equitable sharing program. Between 2000 and 2019, the federal...

Paul Krugman recently wrote, “there’s no more room for housing” in California unless they build up. After all, he notes,...

Questions about which massive structures to build, and where, are actually very hard to answer. Infrastructure is always about the...