In this podcast interview, Steve Shultis shares his perspective on raising a family in a walkable neighborhood and choosing to send his kids to an urban school.
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Chuck and Rachel discuss Chuck's recent vacation, favorite summer movies, Suburban Poverty week and Chuck's recent essay about the future of the US economy.
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Caution: This post contains graphic images of housing displacement. Viewer discretion is advised.
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It’s apparently acceptable for suburbs to actively discourage – and in this case, actually relocate – low-income renters. By pretending this sort of thing only happens in Brooklyn or San Francisco, we leave the low-income households who used to live in these now-demolished Marietta apartments vulnerable to very real displacement.
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From inner-city Birmingham to small town Iowa to racially diverse suburbs of LA, the walkability movement is growing.
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Can we find a way listen to each other?
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A nuanced response to four key arguments about the fall of Detroit. Hint: There's more to it than white flight or the auto industry.
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What the final ailment for Detroit was simply doesn't matter to me. The auto-centric style of development undermined the resiliency of the city, tearing down social, political and financial strength that had made Detroit one of the world's greatest cities. Once Detroit became a fragile city, it was only a matter of time.
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Here are 4 different types of stress that can help our cities become strong towns.
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Walking away from a neighborhood is seen as a harmless passive act. Moving in is viewed as an act of aggression and displacement.
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Residents in poor neighborhoods face health issues, unemployment, deteriorating infrastructure and no way to get out.
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HUD has, with its mortgage funding, chosen to primarily support the creation of single-family dwellings, which are far more accessible to white middle class people and far less accessible to minorities in poverty. This contradicts Fair Housing laws and the Supreme Court's recent ruling on the subject.
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While the most common image of poverty is a high-rise public housing project, in fact many of America’s poor live in the very type of neighborhood where investment is impeded by current financing regulations.
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Growing numbers of young and old Americans prefer to live in communities where they can walk to stores, school, services, parks and public transportation. But federal housing rules make it difficult to meet this demand.
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I have a lot of conversations with people about the challenge of improving public schools, building affordable housing, and more. But the truth is, we as a society don’t want to solve these problems. So we won’t.
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The worst part of all of this is that it happened to a poor and largely Black community. But they set an example for what citizen activism should be.
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Great leaders surround themselves with as many ideas as possible. They seek out conflicting views. They consider all sides of an issue, not superficially for appearances but because they fear not knowing more than they fear appearing to not know.
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The auto-oriented development pattern is a huge financial experiment with massive social, cultural and political ramifications. It is time to start building strong towns.
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