Here's how Lafayette, Louisiana, became a national leader in supporting incremental developers and creating an ecosystem where community reinvestment thrives.

If you want more affordable, resilient, and context-sensitive housing, you need to equip your residents to build it. Here's how Sacramento did it.

On paper, backyard cottages were legal in Tallahassee, Florida. In practice, they were nearly impossible to build. Here's how the city changed that.

Introducing Stacked Against Us: a podcast about how a national economic gamble broke housing, and why local resilience is the only way forward.

Cities shape themselves around what is easy and what is hard. If you want good development, you need to make it easy to do.

A fourplex is not a high-rise and shouldn’t be treated like one. Memphis is recognizing that.

The challenge facing most small-scale developers isn’t vision or willpower. It’s isolation. If you want to get their builders' projects off of paper, you need to help them connect with a network.

This homegrown developer is bringing practical, thoughtful, and community-focused housing to disinvested neighborhoods in South Bend, Indiana.

Bloomington, Illinois, just passed major housing reforms. Here's how local advocates made it happen.

Detroit residents are leading one of the most ambitious housing revivals in the country.

Oakland, California, recently cut a big piece of red tape around housing, making permits available online in minutes. This is an example for all cities that need more housing.

Kalamazoo cut red tape and launched pre-approved housing plans, making it faster and cheaper to build new homes. Other cities can do the same.

Places are not static; they are dynamic. And sometimes, “for-awhile” uses can be the bridge that gets us from stagnation to vibrancy.

When cities attempt to prescribe the exact way a building must be used, they risk regulating away the very life of a place.

When our infrastructure makes normal childhood behavior life-threatening, allowing kids to do typical childhood activities becomes reckless endangerment.

Slow permitting, shifting utility requirements, and inconsistent rules threaten the small-scale development that cities rely on. Here’s one developer’s story.

State preemption can remove obstacles, but it can’t build the local capacity that's required for lasting reform.

Every town will be asked to grow. Maybe not today, maybe not all at once. But when that moment comes, how will yours go about it?

Edmonton is proving that communities don’t have to accept neglect as inevitable. Here’s how it’s turning derelict properties from liabilities into catalysts for renewal.

From New Mexico to Connecticut, Strong Towns advocates are turning hometown newspapers into platforms for change—using op-eds to push for housing reform that’s local, practical, and powerful.

A reflection on affordability, finance, and the deep contradictions we refuse to face.

How do you grow without losing what makes your town special? In Bend, Oregon, Jesse Russell is proving it can start with smaller homes.

Calgary is cutting delays—not corners—to deliver more housing where it’s needed. And your city should be paying attention.

Bangor, Maine, isn’t holding out for silver bullets. It’s getting to work—clearing the way for more homes in creative, community-minded ways.