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Category Archives: Press
People Don’t Understand Affordability Requirements
Mandating low-income housing in new developments sounds great but without subsidies, it’s a flop. We’ve known this for decades.
At least five interesting things to start your week (#33)
Economics is useful because it can often alert us to unintended consequences. For example, rent control seems like a good way to make rent cheaper, but it can end up reducing housing supply, thus shutting new renters out of the market entirely.
On Fire Departments
Long untouchable, fire departments are causing death and homelessness in American cities by advocating for bad policies
Market-rate housing will make your city cheaper
Yes, market-rate!
How Muji is collaborating with Japan’s housing agency
It’s a logical collaboration. Both want to bring good and affordable design to the masses. And obviously there are brand benefits for Muji. It’s a way to expose more people to their products.
Tiny Storefronts (By the Sidewalk)
A neat way of looking at food trucks and tiny businesses
Panoramic clears hurdle for cinema-to-homes conversion in Berkeley
Front of theater earns landmark status, but not the back where developer plans 227 units
Housing at historic Berkeley site now ‘full speed ahead’ after surviving objections
A large apartment project planned at the site of a former Regal United Artists movie theater in Berkeley survived objections over the building’s historic status – clearing the way for the project to move forward in the process.
Why Japanese cities are such nice places to live
“America is a place where you live INSIDE your house, your car, your office, or maybe a mall.
Japan is a place where you live OUTSIDE, in public spaces that are made to provide you with both adventure and comfort.”