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- Real progress starts with empowering local residents to build.
- It’s an idea with a century-long record of success.
- My conversation with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker offered a useful example of the deeper divide shaping today’s housing debate.
- A viral post about a proposed retail development reveals public outrage with Chicago policy that makes it easier to build drive-to box stores than fine-grained neighborhoods.
- The difference between documenting failure and learning from it.
- Perhaps sometimes we really should just phone it in.
- What Sam Quinones taught me about addiction, community, and the slow work of building strong towns.
- A look at Denver’s “Unlocking Housing Choices” plan.
- Why we need to stop letting people outside the city make decisions about the city.
- When every project is treated like a megadevelopment, nothing small gets built.
- First St in downtown Duluth, MN, is being reviewed for a potential redesign. Supporters hope for a safer and accessible route for bicyclists and pedestrians.
- What I heard in Des Moines, IA, from the people trying to solve America’s housing crisis.