How about converting our depopulated downtowns into affordable housing instead?
Cities & Communities
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 inEnergy and the Environment
‘Benton Harbor Is Not Flint’—It’s Worse
Another poor, majority-Black city in Michigan is facing a lead contamination crisis brought on by gross apathy and neglect, but without sustained national attention.
Posted inEducation in America
Rural Illinois Schools Hit Hard by COVID-19
Are state education officials doing enough to support teachers and students?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Big Business Games the Supply Chain
The disruptions, and the subsequent circumventions, have accelerated Amazon and Walmart’s takeover at the expense of independent retailers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Warehouse Space Race
With warehouse capacity at a premium, businesses try to get goods and move them out as global economic chaos disrupts long-held ideas about stocking stuff just in time.
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 inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rollups: All Monopolies Are Local
How one supermarket chain, Stop & Shop, abuses property transfers to frustrate competition
Posted inEconomic Policy
Remote Workers Punch Holes in City Revenues
Cities hard hit by the pandemic economic slowdown maneuver to keep local income taxes flowing.
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.
