• Affordable neighborhood designed for Disney

    The entertainment giant has donated land to create affordable housing, and the chosen developer has envisioned a new urbanist neighborhood.
    The aerial rendering above shows a new urbanist, affordable housing neighborhood that is proposed near Walt Disney World in Florida, sponsored through a land donation by Disney. The 1,300 units on nearly 80 acres will be built and operated by The Michaels Organization, a national affordable housing...Read more

  • Ending exclusionary zoning is one way out of our housing crisis

    Reforming zoning to allow missing middle housing would create more paths to homeownership and mitigate a national housing shortage.
    The US is experiencing a severe housing crisis that will require a wide toolkit of strategies to mitigate. A recent study released by Up for Growth estimates that there is a 3.8-million-unit housing shortage nationwide, affecting urban, suburban, and rural areas across the country, not just a few...Read more

  • In the unlucky rust belt, an overlooked 15-minute city

    For those who seek affordable, diverse urbanism in a community that needs committed residents, smaller, working-class cities have much to offer. Here's one in particular with 21st Century potential.
    A cynic might say that Auburn, New York, has no hope. It’s a small city (population 26,000), outside of any metropolitan area, where much of its industry vanished in the 20 th Century. Its median household income is only $43,555, 38 percent below the national average. Moreover, Auburn is still...Read more

  • Zoning that supports physical activity rising in the US

    A longitudinal study found a 53 percent increase in new urbanist type zoning in the US during the previous decade, and support for infrastructure that boosts physical activity, and ultimately, health.
    New-urbanist-type zoning codes rose 53 percent across the US over the previous decade, according to research by the CDC-funded Physical Activity Policy Research and Evaluation Network (PAPREN). Across the board, this type of zoning promotes more sidewalks, mixed-use, bicycle-pedestrian trails,...Read more