Annapolis's downtown has become dominated by short-term rentals, and it’s beginning to degrade the community’s social capital.
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In Birmingham, AL, a unique high school program trains teens in home renovation and building skills, while revitalizing their neighborhood in the process. Jeanyll Morris shares her experience helping lead the program.
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The benefits to a bottom-up approach to affordable housing don’t just build wealth and resilience; they can be deeply personal, too.
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These Strong Towns members are helping build homes for those that need them and advocating for more flexible housing policy in Texas.
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The “Takings Clause” prohibits the government from taking private property without just compensation. But what if it’s interpreted in unexpected ways?
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A controversy-courting Atlantic article makes a full-throated defense of “luxury” development—and argues that more, not less, of it is what the doctor ordered for our unaffordable housing markets. Does this prescription hit the mark?
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Detroit today, your town tomorrow. Here’s how we can help keep homes out of foreclosure and residents from being evicted.
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When it comes to housing, do aesthetics have to come at the cost of affordability?
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In the UK, planning systems have created a housing shortage. Here’s how a bottom-up approach could address the problem.
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Lisa Leslie joined with her neighbors to help found an intentional community where families live near one another and share life together.
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Large-scale investors are dominating the housing market, at the expense of actual people who want to become homeowners.
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This Houston-based real estate professional and urban planner is helping build community wealth through financially strong housing and development practices.
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Lack of affordability, the gap between the rich and poor, strained public infrastructure: California’s problems are now becoming Texas’s problems.
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The housing market has been insane for decades. That it’s less insane in a small town is only one reason you should consider buying there.
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Here’s how middle housing went “missing” in North America…while remaining part of the city fabric in much of Europe.
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Something remarkable is happening this year in City Halls across America.
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London’s thinnest house just went on sale. Here are two takeaways we shouldn’t miss.
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Critics say YIMBYs have an “induced demand” problem.
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Want to better inform yourself — or your neighbors — on why we need more “middle housing”? Start with these 4 resources.
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An amendment passed back in the ‘90s limits the amount of public housing in the U.S. How far will repealing it go toward addressing the housing crisis?
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