How about converting our depopulated downtowns into affordable housing instead?
Housing and Transportation
Read about affordable housing; access to transportation; roadways; bridges and tunnels; crumbling infrastructure; railroads; Amtrak; trucking; interstate highway system; science and technology; land use;
Posted inBuilding Back America
Oh No, Joe Manchin’s Talking About a Deal Again
The umpteenth iteration of what Manchin wants out of the Biden agenda is here: some energy investments, paid for by tax and prescription drug reform.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Tearing Down Highways to Revitalize Communities—and Create Jobs
New projects in Black and brown neighborhoods divided by the mid-century interstate highway push can be job creation engines.
Posted inTransportation
Is Amtrak Up to Crossing the Hudson?
As billions flow to the Gateway Program’s Hudson River megaproject for new bridges and tunnels, an audit finds that Amtrak has serious work to do—in-house.
Posted inHousing
Want Affordable Housing? Strengthen Regional Governments.
Most Americans live in metropolitan areas, and it takes a metropolitan regional government to coordinate the growth in housing, transit, and employment that makes the region livable.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
5G Rollout Is an Administrative-State Fail
Reliable wireless networks? Safe air travel? Why not both?
Posted inHousing
Missed Measurement: We Have No Idea How Many Evictions There Are
There is no federal data on evictions, keeping policymakers blind during a moment of uncertainty.
Posted inHousing
America’s Hidden Fire Kindling
Federally subsidized housing complexes, many of them owned by for-profit investors, fail to enforce basic safety standards.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Building Back America in 2021
A selection of the Prospect’s best work on the Biden domestic agenda this year
Posted inHousing
Washington Moves to Clear Unhoused People From Encampments
Social welfare advocates say these evictions are counterproductive and cruel.
