Sacramento’s growth looks strong, but what do 21 years of financial data really show? Dive into the numbers with the Strong Towns Finance Decoder.
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How do you create a walkability initiative that gets covered on the news, triggers a city-funded pilot program, and inspires people to stay in the city long-term? Andrew Neidhardt and Dustin Moore explain.
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On April 23, the Dallas City Council unanimously agreed to allow up to eight dwelling units in three-story buildings. This shift opens the door to a more prosperous city.
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The rules weren’t made for small-scale housing — and that’s quietly driving up costs. Here’s a look at how the system makes affordability harder to deliver.
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ZacTax is a financial analysis firm that helps city officials understand their revenue streams and make smarter financial choices. Today, Chuck is joined by its founders to discuss how they're helping build a culture of productive cities. (Transcript included.)
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An advocate group in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, started with an email. Now, it’s expanded to cover the metro area and even beyond. Here’s how it happened.
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Advocates agree: better urban planning starts outside, not in a conference room. Walking your neighborhood reveals what reports can’t.
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Dallas is simplifying the process for building smaller, affordable homes. Could this shift be the key to addressing the city's housing shortage?
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Rosaline Hill is a registered professional planner and awards-winning architect from Ottawa, Canada. She joins Tiffany to discuss the complexities of housing reform and to explain how she helps municipalities visualize and argue persuasively for development. (Transcript included.)
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Our housing crisis demands a return to simpler, more empowering development approaches. The same approaches that let my grandfather build a starter home that sheltered his family for 70 years.
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An overlooked opportunity to fight the housing crisis lies not just in scaling up development efforts, but in scaling down barriers.
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California universities are facing $17 billion in deferred maintenance. Chuck and Abby explore how this problem arose, how it mirrors the challenges cities are facing, and what it'll take to manage this decline. (Transcript included.)
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With a bit of paint and plastic, speeds on a Pittsburgh street dropped from 36 to 23 mph overnight. Here’s how the Pennsylvania city is making its streets safer.
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Officials in Vancouver, Washington, are considering annexing all 56 square miles of their urban growth area. This would come at a staggering cost.
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Saeed Vahid, a Local Conversation leader from Richmond Hill, Ontario, joins Norm to talk about how his group collaborates with city officials and how the expansion of the Greater Toronto Area has affected Richmond Hill. (Transcript included.)
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Thanks to a new tool, a local group in Artesia is highlighting that true resilience lies in lasting stability, not just getting by in the moment.
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A new report shows pedestrian deaths dropped in 2024. But this “good news” comes with a huge asterisk: they're still 50% higher than they were a decade ago.
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Red states are rewriting the rules on housing—and Arkansas is leading the charge thanks to a new bipartisan law.
Read MoreIf we’re serious about housing affordability, we can’t just count units. We have to care about where and how we build.
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Diane Alisa is an author and founder of the nonprofit End Car Dependency. She joins Tiffany to discuss the impact of car-dependent design on families and the importance of building integrated communities. (Transcript included.)
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