This fall, five articles explored important questions about the cost of housing and the need for "growth" and development in Portland, OR.
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As I was thinking about what to write today, I kept coming back to the same thing: how deeply grateful I am to all of you.
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Can we have cities that work with economics that don't?
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We've traded stability for growth, but now we find that we have neither.
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We don't have a checklist of things we are trying to accomplish that includes, as one aspiration, public investments that make financial sense. As we say in our core principles: Financial solvency is a prerequisite.
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Maine lacks the money it needs to do basic maintenance on its transportation system. Their institutional response to this emergency is to cling to an archaic code book while projecting a value system of improve, Improve, IMPROVE.
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The greatest accomplishment of any ideology is to not be considered an ideology.
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Our cities have become moral monocultures, as has our countryside. They each reflect one set of moral tuning, a reality each side considers exclusively correct. This is dangerous for the future of our cities.
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We are throwing our money away on parking that is simply not needed.
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Chuck, while driving through a Minnesota blizzard, shares some reflections on small town America, the tension between urban and rural areas and the Strong Towns movement.
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As part of our membership drive, Chuck Marohn invited Strong Towns members to submit their questions—any question—and today, on a late-night, Mountain Dew-fueled podcast, he's answering them.
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Of all the messages out there, Strong Towns stands out as a unifying voice.
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Scale our economy to those working at the ground level and we will see a true prosperity emerge.
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Our job as Strong Towns advocates is to share our message with our friends, neighbors and others in our communities, to keep bringing the conversation back to the persistent fact that our current approach is not working financially. We’re broke and so we must start thinking differently.
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A fetish with density is spiking the rising tide of housing demand in cities like Portland. To make housing affordable, we have to deal with the cause of the spike.
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When the issue of housing affordability comes up again and again, it is always tied to the agreed upon narrative that Portland is growing and will continue to grow, world without end. I don't buy that.
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The mechanism creating inflated housing prices in cities like Portland is actually relatively simple.
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Join us for Bike Week at Strong Towns, as we examine the highest returning investment a city can make: making it easier for people to bike.
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Questioning 4 common arguments about why housing is unaffordable in Portland.
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A strong town is built with a thousand competing ideas instead of one master vision.
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