2017February
"Let’s not demonize driving—just stop subsidizing it"
At City Observatory, we try to stick to a wonky, data-driven approach to all things urban. But numbers don’t mean much without a framework to explain them, and so today we want to quickly talk about one of those rhetorical frameworks: specifically, how we talk about driving.
...More"Wave of the Future? Finding Happiness in 350 Square Feet"
Welcome to the 21st-century world of microhousing
In San Francisco, Small Spaces With Places to Escape
Mission and Ninth streets in San Francisco’s South of Market district is one of those corners that testify to a rapidly changing city.
...More"Popping the Housing Bubbles in the American Mind"
Suppose there were a way to pump up the economy, reduce inequality and put an end to destructive housing bubbles like the one that contributed to the Great Recession. The idea would be simple, but not easy, requiring a wholesale reframing of the United States economy and housing market.
...More"The unexpected solution to America’s affordable housing crunch"
If you suggest there’s a housing crisis in the Bay Area or other major US cities, you’ll probably get a chorus of agreement. But suggest that the solution requires building more housing, and you’re kicking a hornet’s nest.
The ones currently doing the kicking are the YIMBYs, a loosely allied collection of pro-development housing advocates whose name plays on the acronym NIMBY (“Not In My Backyard”),
...More"Sacramento is turning to a stackable solution to address their lack of affordable housing"
The Micropad is looking to solve the homeless crisis with stackable living units.
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