Another year later, and we’re still stuck with the same hypocrisy on climate change If it seems like you’ve read this post before at City Observatory, you’re not wrong. For the past couple of years,
It’s Groundhog’s Day yet again, Oregon: How’s your climate change strategy working? Read Post »
More driving and our car-oriented transportation system killed 50,000 pedestrians in the past decade Each year, Smart Growth America produces its annual report Dangerous by Design looking at pedestrian deaths and injuries. Once again, this
More driving, more dying: Dangerous by Design, 2019 Read Post »
Here’s a provocative proposal for getting more affordable housing, especially in rapidly changing, opportunity neighborhoods In part I of this series we laid out a key challenge to housing affordability described by Washington developer Rob
A third-way for approaching affordable housing Read Post »
How can affordable housing help minimize, rather than perpetuate, income segregation? At City Observatory, we’ve long focused on the challenge of concentrated poverty, starting with our first report Lost in Place, in 2014. American metropolitan
A third way for more affordable housing? Part I. The problem Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. Remembering Dr. King. We were reminded of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech about the pronounced tendency in public policy to prescribe socialism for the rich and rugged, free
The Week Observed, January 25, 2019 Read Post »
Coping with the nation’s shortage of cities is a key factor in the Portland housing market in 2019 On January 9, I was invited to talk to the annual housing outlook seminar convened by HFO
The outlook for the Portland housing market Read Post »
