Many housing advocates celebrate large supplies of housing and low rents. However, this is only one stage of a larger boom-and-bust cycle and cannot be maintained. To break out of this cycle and sustainably improve housing accessibility, we need to redirect our focus to incremental development.
Read MoreWhen housing is scarce, the affordability and quality of it tend to go down. If we want to solve this, we need more housing supply—but how do we make that happen? (Hint: Not necessarily through large-scale federal programs!)
Read MoreEveryone has an entry point on their journey to taking action for their place. For Bernice Radle, it was witnessing the steady depopulation of Buffalo, NY, and seeing a landscape of unused, unloved buildings headed for the wrecking ball.
Read MoreSmall-scale developer Coby Lefkowitz joins us to discuss how finance shapes our cities, why debt is used to develop cities, and and why America's housing financial system privileges large-scale institutional development.
Read MoreMonte Anderson is a local developer who sees it as his mission to revive his community—not only through neighboring relationships, but also by saving the abandoned and broken spaces.
Read MoreA catalytic project has been proposed for downtown South Bend, IN: a mixed-use district that would include hotels, apartments, and commercial uses.
Read MoreConventional thought would tell us that the new commercial developments in a city should be the most productive compared to the older buildings downtown, but that’s not necessarily the case.
Read MoreA yoga studio owner turned into a developer and transformed a former mill into a mixed-use building, offering housing and economic opportunities in Rhode Island's fourth largest city.
Read MoreThis Dallas citizen developer is creating housing that’s maximizing profit—not for himself, but for the community—by funneling individuals from the foster care system into homeownership.
Read MoreA local fitness center in Chisholm, MN, shows that you don’t need to look far outside of your city or town to find the best people to develop it.
Read MoreThe notion that there is strength in smallness can be found everywhere in the Strong Towns approach—but what’s so special about small?
Read MoreAll too often, the job of development is handed to large developers with large swaths of cash to implement an all-at-once, large-scale development. This small-scale developer is showing how there is another (and better) way.
Read MoreA troubled project in Mission, KS, speaks to the problems with large, single-developer projects—but also why fixating on the "bad developer" narrative isn't necessarily helpful.
Read MoreIf it takes a village to raise a child, then it takes a whole community to build a building. The small-scale developers of South Bend, IN, are showing how to do just that—and do it successfully in the long term.
Read MoreWhile other places keep finding ways to say “no” to new housing, this Indiana city is offering pre-approved development templates to small-scale developers at no cost.
Read MoreIf you live in a city or town with old, abandoned storefronts, this one’s for you!
Read MoreIncrementalism is not an end in itself. Nor is it about a “small-is-beautiful” aesthetic for its own sake. Instead, it’s a practical pathway toward resilient, financially sound places.
Read MoreThis catalog is a primer on house hacking, with plenty of real-life examples of how it is done.
Read MoreThe work of this small-scale developer shows why cities shouldn’t be so restrictive about building in their own vernacular.
Read MoreThese brothers are pushing for incremental infill development in Memphis, Tennessee, with a community they’re building just north of downtown.
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