Seairra Jones
Seairra Jones serves as the Lead Story Producer for Strong Towns. In the past, she's worked as a freelance journalist and videographer for a number of different organizations. Her experiences and travels have taught her a lot about cities, and remain as an inspiration as she works behind the scenes guiding our videos and podcasts.
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Residents of small towns shouldn’t have to travel to a large urban downtown to get a taste of a walkable, people-centered environment.
In a moment to be celebrated, CDOT cancels highway expansion plans, stating they "have no money" to add vehicle capacity to I-25.
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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.
How have we come to the conclusion that most short-term rentals are taxed as “residential,” when many have no residents?
Recently, the North Carolina Ad Hoc Appraisals Committee was challenged to face their own biases and fix their broken property tax assessment system. Here’s what happened.
Across the country, the property tax system is causing economic hardship for homeowners—and it’s because the system itself is flawed.
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Our excessive expansion of the interstate highway system has destroyed urban downtowns—and it’s wiped out many small towns altogether.
Street trees provide a lot of pragmatic benefits to a community—and they also serve a social purpose.
In this town where so many people have front-lawn gardens, why is anyone still arguing that they shouldn’t be allowed?
What is the real reason behind our striking property tax disparities?
This Strong Towns member saw a huge problem with the parking minimums in his city—and decided to do something about it.
Because we depend so heavily on cars, what happens when roads become too icy to drive on? The answer: road salt. But there are serious consequences to relying on salt for road-clearing.