• Community Land Trust is planting the roots of housing affordability

    Initiated by area residents as part of the 11th Street Bridge Park equitable development plan, The Douglass Community Land Trust has become an important part of the housing affordability toolkit in Washington, DC.
    The 11th Street Bridge Park’s equitable development plan was created in 2015 in response to community feedback to ensure that existing residents and small businesses near the Bridge Park would continually benefit from this new civic space. To address a concern over gentrification and displacement,...Read more

  • Federal Reserve announces nationwide Land Bank

    The Federal Reserve this morning announced that all vacant and underutilized properties in towns and cities across America will be placed in a nationwide Land Bank, for bid to those wishing to build affordable housing. Community developers, builders, municipalities, and individuals will be eligible...Read more

  • A new era of people-oriented infrastructure

    We have been investing in automobiles, at the expense of people, for too long. The story of Oklahoma City indicates that change is possible, because the dialog is shifting.
    “You are winning,” says Christopher Coes, principal deputy assistant secretary for transportation policy at US DOT, told the CNU 30 audience in Oklahoma City last week. “The argument for more connected, livable communities, is resonating on the left and right, on the national level and on main...Read more

  • House hacking: Urbanism at its smallest and most personal

    The smallest scale of the Charter of the New Urbanism is the building, and the smallest building is usually a house. Many of us own one, or would like to own one. But it can also be expensive to purchase a house, pay a mortgage, and also launch a career and/or raise a family. That’s where the...Read more