Density With Children In Mind
In his “Why Urbanism?” post, Ben cited research showing cities cause people to voluntarily have fewer children. From a planetary carrying capacity perspective, that...
Why Is Housing Cheaper In Raleigh Than San Francisco? Here’s One Big Reason
Housing prices in many cities are on the rise. This trend has been pushing lower income workers out of housing in many cities, including...
Make Housing Cost Our Top Priority
In a previous post we established a few important points. First, the housing market isn't a solution to be accepted or thrown out but rather...
Does The Housing Market Work? The Answer Is Obvious But The Question Is Misleading
It has become a common refrain among anyone paying attention to housing costs that the market simply doesn't work. Many legitimate and important concerns...
Required Bicycle Parking and aPodments
The city's draft of microhousing legislation (p. 15) includes a previously proposed regulation for bicycle parking: 1 secure space for every 4 microhousing units.
Seattle currently requires...
Housing Diversions: We Can End Homelessness
Gabriel Metcalfe from SPUR proposes an all-of-the-above approach to solving the housing cost problem in San Francisco. He nails it with the comment:
In the...
Why Urbanism?
Sometimes, when having conversations with fellow environmentalists, I find a disconnect in our understanding of urbanization. In the past, cities were regarded as dirty,...
Let’s stop using the term NIMBY. This is a better description.
In many cities the term NIMBY (not in my back yard) is often lobbed at those opposing changes in their neighborhood. The term is...