After finding an ideal property in a neighborhood we wanted to invest in, getting a bank to finance our purchase turned out to be a huge hurdle.
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Is anyone doing the math on the real costs of development in your city?
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6 months ago, my partner and I tried to buy an ailing property in a poor neighborhood and transform it into quality affordable housing. Here’s what happened instead.
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Housing demand far outstrips supply in many cities.
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4 ways to join the Strong Towns conversation at the annual Congress for the New Urbanism — whether you’re attending the event or not.
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The current climate of distrust and pushback against new development is a recipe for perpetual housing problems.
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Big box stores are as ubiquitous and American as Coca-Cola. And yet their impact on our cities has gone unquestioned for far too long…
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This week’s guest is Strong Towns member and writer, Alex Baca, who discusses some of the most pressing bikeshare and housing issues of the day.
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The town of Thomasville, GA is taking small and affordable but very impactful steps to make its downtown more welcoming to people on bikes.
If you want your community to prosper, stop building new infrastructure.
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This week we debated several current public transportation issues and asked, would you live in a 400 square foot apartment?
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The slice of Americans who can afford a home and reap the profits off it is increasingly small. So why is homeownership still a huge mechanism for building wealth?
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If handled delicately, tactfully and shamelessly, everyone can learn a lot from having The Talk… about biking and walking.
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Today we've got the video and audio from a recent Ask Strong Towns webcast conversation featuring friend of Strong Towns and Principal at Urban3, Joe Minicozzi
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When it comes to the mall, reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Two parents weigh in on how to build cities where kids with Down Syndrome can thrive.
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Incremental transit expansion should be Nashville’s new path forward.
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A city is a living organism, and we should tend to it as such. A city dies when it is treated as, and functions, as a machine.
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Why we need them, how to build them, and who’s already getting it done around the country.
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It’s not enough to celebrate the fun stuff; we also need to confront our challenges.
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