How single-stair reform can help unlock incremental housing
A small reform like legalizing these single-stair buildings would dramatically improve the building potential of our urban neighborhoods in two ...
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Homelessness and housing shortages
The essay "Why Housing Shortages Cause Homelessness" by Salim Furth offers a compelling analysis of the intricate relationship between housing ...
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Young families are leaving many large US cities − here’s why that matters
Young families help cities maintain or increase their population, which can counter urban shrinkage and decline. They are important advocates ...
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The perils of snob zoning
Even in progressive states, restrictive zoning remains “fundamentally designed to separate people by income,” effectively creating walls that hinder mobility ...
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Limiting housing is actually causing all that traffic
We need to welcome growth. We can't keep pushing the growth that should be occurring here to cities 20+ miles ...
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