"Tokyo may have found the solution to soaring housing costs"

Vox | October 16, 2018

From Aug 2016

San Francisco and other large American cities are facing a massive housing affordability problem, with rents spiraling beyond the reach of ordinary people. A fascinating article from the Financial Times argues that Japan may have found a solution to the problem.

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"Why cities need to embrace change"

City Obervatory | October 8, 2018

Could there be a more apt place to observe “The Transforming City” than Detroit?

On behalf of Rip Rapson and my colleagues at the Kresge Foundation, welcome to Detroit. If you travel to Detroit regularly, as I have over the past 15 years, you see that Detroit changes quickly.

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"Thinking Inside the Big Box—Innovative Concepts to Combat the Homeless Crisis"

Commercial Observer | October 8, 2018

The severity of the nationwide homeless crisis in Southern California—with an estimated 53,000 people homeless on any given night in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Mission—is impossible to ignore.

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