Learn more about this two-year project designed to introduce Strong Towns ideas to your community, shift the conversation there, and kickstart the implementation of a Strong Towns approach.
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Are Wall Street-backed investors the reason you can’t afford a house? The truth is a bit more complicated than that.
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The process for appealing your property taxes can be obscure, even when the appeal is merited (and more often than not, it is). This simple guide will help prepare you for when your property is next assessed.
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The decision to renovate a local theater presents a simple, but compelling, example of why Jasper, IN, was chosen as our 2022 Strongest Town Contest winner.
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This week, our Neighborhood Storyteller gets an unexpected—and delighted—visitor at her fire lookout tower.
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Strong Towns founding member Seth Zeren stopped by the Mass Construction podcast recently for a conversation on incremental development, New Urbanism, and the Strong Towns movement.
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss: "We don't need a gas tax holiday. We need a gas tax reset: an overhaul of how we approach transportation funding.”
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Love letters to the built world, riding the bus, and NIMBYism. These are just some of the stories from around the internet that Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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Strong Towns member Ari Feinsmith is making streets safer in his California town, hosting free bike repair events and more.
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Small-scale, incremental development works in the suburbs too, if we let it.
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Sometimes, it’s worth it to take a step back from national news and pay attention to the things that are happening in your own community.
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You should be wary of anyone who claims to speak for “the community” or “the public,” especially when it’s in lieu of telling you who will benefit from the actions they support.
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Downtown Leesburg, Virginia, goes car free for one weekend.
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It’s not easy to live without a car when you have young children, but it’s certainly possible. Plus, having to walk can help you build unexpected connections with your community.
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This week, our Neighborhood Storyteller reflects on ways she stays connected—at least in spirit—with her community, even when she’s physically far away.
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40,000 people die in automobile accidents every year in the United States. So why aren’t we responding to this obvious problem with more urgency?
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As an ad hoc committee recently discovered, owners of higher-valued properties are more likely to receive a tax break…simply because of bad data.
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What do we mean when we say that street design is a large factor responsible for traffic deaths?
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Stellar nurseries, violins, and horror novelists. These are just some of the stories from around the internet that Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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San José adds itself to the list of cities that are doing away with harmful parking minimums!
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