Sometimes to appreciate the power, versatility, and appeal of missing middle housing, it helps to go somewhere it still exists.
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The housing crisis is complex. It was made more so by the pandemic. What can Strong Towns advocates do to bring some sanity back to the housing market?
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How have cities throughout history successfully grown and met their need for new homes? Two metaphors from nature provide the key.
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A small-scale developer in Atlanta is showing that it’s possible to improve a neighborhood without displacing the people who already live there.
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The federal government wants to help convert repurpose empty commercial space into apartments. Is this a plan that helps solves two problems at once — the affordable housing crisis, and repurposing the malls that now stand empty in our cities — or a bad idea?
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Small-scale developers are an important part of building strength and prosperity. If anything, that’s more true now than it was before COVID-19.
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The best approaches to affordable housing solve other problems at the same time. This and other lessons from “the Michael Jordan of urban planners.”
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In 1926, activists were using the claim that their cities had enough “zoned capacity” elsewhere to argue against allowing apartment buildings in their own neighborhoods. Today, they still do. And they’re still wrong.
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A home that’s been flexible in meeting the family’s needs for generations finds new use during the COVID-19 crisis.
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The special tax districts used to finance suburban expansion have been big trouble in past recessions. They’re worth watching now too.
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A strong town is one that can adapt incrementally over time. Here’s how a group of climbing enthusiasts helped a Michigan college town do just that.
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Watching the value of your home over the past 10 years might convince you that the U.S. housing market has long since “recovered” from the 2008 crash. The reality is messier: the past decade was, if anything, quite unusual.
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Some cities and states are allowing tenants to defer rent payments. What happens when those rents come due before the economy is back on its feet?
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New legislation to address California’s statewide housing crisis looks a lot more like successful efforts in Oregon and the city of Minneapolis. It also looks a lot more like a Strong Towns approach.
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The way we grow our cities today produces a few winners and many losers. Here's how to get back to places that serve all of us.
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A cautionary tale from the superheated housing market of San Francisco.
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A wealthy Bay Area suburb is resisting new development. This is raising questions not just about California’s housing crisis, but about who gets to decide a city’s housing future.
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How do you solve a problem like the housing crisis? And who’s to blame? The answers probably aren’t as simple as we’d like them to be.
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The famous "Growth Machine" theory of local politics explains a lot about the shape of our cities and their present-day problems. But not in the way you think.
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California has the nation’s worst housing crisis. It’s also the place mired in the worst gridlock when it comes to how to respond to it.
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