March 3: What we’re reading this week
Some articles we found interesting this week:
Here is an interesting report that explores the high cost of personal transportation in America and how zoning reform and building integrated transit systems can substantially reduce those costs and enhance financial stability.
This study reinforces the idea that subsidizing transit systems leads to better transit and higher ridership.
Here is more evidence that adding housing supply quickly (particularly rental housing) can significantly slow the rate of increasing housing costs.
To save Downtowns, Cities need to do More than Turn Offices into Housing, via the Urban Institute.
More support for the notion that homelessness is a housing problem, via the Urban Institute.
Do Community Land Trusts Improve Resident Outcomes, via the Urban Institute.
From Montreal to Berlin, Cities Aim to Stay Open 24 Hours, from Bloomberg.
Homes Owned by Black People Valued less than those Owned by White People, according to Axios.
Here is a 2021 study suggesting that transit expansion does not cause significantly higher rates of displacement.
Sixty Years of Racial Equity Planning, from the Journal of the American Planning Association.