Langley Park’s auto-oriented development pattern imposes unneeded costs and burdens upon those who can least afford them.
Read MoreIn a thinly veiled attempt to keep "those people" out of a local mall, this spring, the Valley West Mall in West Des Moines demanded that a bus stop that services the mall be removed from its property.
Read MoreWhat if our goal wasn’t to build the most stuff in the shortest amount of time for the least amount of money?
Read MoreCaution: This post contains graphic images of housing displacement. Viewer discretion is advised.
Read MoreIt’s apparently acceptable for suburbs to actively discourage – and in this case, actually relocate – low-income renters. By pretending this sort of thing only happens in Brooklyn or San Francisco, we leave the low-income households who used to live in these now-demolished Marietta apartments vulnerable to very real displacement.
Read MoreThis suburb is a growing place, but it's not a successful place. It risks becoming an increasingly isolating place full of people who are cut off from the economic mainstream.
Read MoreThe reconfiguration of a bus route to reach lower-income suburban areas is a symptom of the problem, not the real treatment.
Read MoreThis interactive map lets you explore concentrations of suburban poverty and their growth over the last four decades.
Read MoreThe deck is stacked against suburban residents trying to make it out of poverty and the current network of nonprofit and government-based service agencies is not set up to help them.
Read MoreOur de facto national housing policy of drive-till-you-qualify suburban development works well enough for people with an education and a professional salary. It fails the working class entirely and that’s by design.
Read MoreThe state of Florida went all-in on the suburban experiment in a way that few other places did. Overbuilt and half empty, many Florida suburbs will never climb out of debt and decline.
Read MoreWhat will happen to Homeowner's Associations in an America with increasing suburban poverty? It will be messy.
Read MoreRachel and special guest, Michelle Erfurt (Strong Towns' Pathfinder) discuss Suburban Poverty Week and dive into the event calendar for the rest of 2016.
Read MoreThe spectre of poverty haunts hundreds of American suburbs and effects millions of Americans. Let's take a look at the data behind suburban poverty: its causes, impacts and current trends.
Read MoreNext time you want to label a town as 'family oriented' - don't just think about the young and middle-aged people that are able to depend on an automobile at a moment's notice. Ask yourself, would your 13 year old kid or elderly grandma with a walker have their freedom and be happy there?
Read MorePonder what life will be like following another decade or two of inversion, with society’s arrangements -- no longer able to be propped up by an expanding state. Consider an America where the affluent inhabit our core cities and the poor are left behind on our suburbanized outskirts.
Read MoreTraditional neighborhoods, road funding, and antifragility were among our most popular topics this week.
Read MoreA house built for "aging in place" should also be located in a neighborhood built for aging in place.
Read MoreTrailer parks remain one of the last forms of housing in US cities provided by the market explicitly for low-income residents.
Read MoreThis week Chuck answers questions left over from an Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals web broadcast he participated in earlier this year.
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