Oct. 25 letters to The Vancouver Sun.

Across the country, cities are rethinking rules that force developers to overbuild parking—and Missouri should follow suit.

Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon join me to discuss their new book and why a future with fewer cars is a happier one.

Feminist urban critic Lo Sontag speaks with Helen Bonnyman of Future of Land and Housing about creative tools to make housing affordable.

Imagine waking up to learn your rent is jumping 16% — not in a year, not over several years, but all at once. For me and my neighbors, this isn’t a thought experiment. It’s reality, it’s been ongoing for years and it happened in my building this week.  A sudden rent hike of this magnitude […]

Starla Brown says Mississippi should dismantle burdensome regulations that prohibit or disincentivize developers from building more diverse housing options.

Plenty of parking despite perceptions

A five-point plan

And a solution to that problem.

Arguments against parking mandates are so compelling and common sense that municipalities across the country are doing away with them.

The US is facing a housing crisis due to a shortage of housing in the places where people want to live, which is driving up prices and pushing people out, and requires bold and evidence-based action to increase supply and make housing more affordable.

We need to stop illegal parking practices, reduce traffic jams in Dhaka

Parking mandates raise construction costs and limit growth. Learn how Kansas City and other cities are rethinking rules to boost housing and business development.

The American housing market is in crisis, with young people unable to afford homes due to a lack of new construction, high prices, and restrictive zoning laws, and the federal government needs to take action to address the issue.

The city’s framework for Broadway is predicated on the wishful thinking that people living near mass transit are less likely to own cars.

By Ben Wolfenstein Ben Wolfenstein is Abundant Housing Illinois‘ State Legislative Lead. Read the Suburban Mayors Coalition for Fair Transit statement here. Read the Capitol Fax post about it here. Recently, the Illinois Municipal League published a statement from 25 suburban mayors and village presidents, calling themselves the Suburban Mayors Coalition for Fair Transit. It […]

Muskegon’s supply-side reforms designed to ease home price inflation

The city is (finally) exploring ways to reduce or minimize the impact parking requirements have on homes and businesses.

Building 2500 parking spots for a new spa is a problem in more ways than one.

The recent literature on parking and automobility suggests that most of our current strategies work better for cars than cities.

'The only opposition usually comes from homeowners who fear the spillover of drivers parking on their residential streets,' says columnist

I love suburbs now, it's over.

The city doesn’t require multifamily developers to include fitness rooms, swimming pools or resident lounges in their buildings. But it does require them to include parking. Am I comparing apples to oranges? I think not. These amenities enhance quality of life for the people who use them but also make housing more expensive. For some […]

Let's start with parking requirements for new developments.

With most of the community board recommendations in, Streetsblog mapped where residents are saying "yes" to more housing and less parking.

Road space at the curb is a valuable public asset – and must be recognized as such. It doesn’t belong to cars

Anna Zivarts is a low-vision non-driver, a mom, and an advocate for transportation, housing affordability, and disability mobility rights. She was born with the neurological condition nystagmus — which, for her, means that she doesn’t drive. She gets around her city of Seattle mostly by foot, bike, and transit. She’s not alone; fully one third ... Read more

The Canadian federal government is finding new ways to pressure local governments to legalize denser housing to solve the country's home shortage.

Since the 1990s, Fairfax County planners have imagined turning Tysons into “a place where people want to be.” How’s that going? Let’s look at the state of walkability and bikeability in Tysons, and how to make it better.