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Chicago's downtown family boom
And what it can tell us about building family-friendly cities
Nov 10, 2025
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Zak Yudhishthu
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Can we boost density by restricting lower-density housing?
Is this "zoning, but good", or just more bad zoning?
Oct 3, 2025
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Zak Yudhishthu
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Why do we block housing in cash-strapped cities?
How collective action problems and inequality keep us constrained
Aug 25, 2025
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Zak Yudhishthu
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Chicago has a market for parking reform
The city’s new reforms will help build more units
Published on A City That Works
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Jul 31, 2025
Solving Minneapolis' Housing Affordability Impasse
Housing affordability, when housing is already... pretty affordable
Jul 11, 2025
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Zak Yudhishthu
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Some cities reached peak households in 2020 — even after past population decline
An under-recognized fact that matters for cities' housing supply
Jun 12, 2025
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Zak Yudhishthu
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A history of zoning in Chicago: three takeaways
Chicago's zoning and land use system isn't great... but that's not new
May 26, 2025
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Zak Yudhishthu
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Notes on Saint Paul, and the economics of urban decline and revitalization
A few weeks ago, I had an article published in Racket, the Twin Cities’ digital alt-weekly of sorts, comparing Chicago’s very famous Bean sculpture to…
May 5, 2025
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Zak Yudhishthu
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What do we mean when we say "filtering?"
Distinguishing between two different housing market dynamics
Mar 26, 2025
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Zak Yudhishthu
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The Twin Cities' Immense Variation in Housing Affordability
Observing the many suburbs, and select city neighborhoods, that are expensive and exclusionary
Mar 20, 2025
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Zak Yudhishthu
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Saint Paul's zoning reforms show some early results
It pays to sweat the details
Feb 19, 2025
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Zak Yudhishthu
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Is Minneapolis' Housing Market Suffering From Success?
What if we built so much housing that no one wanted to build anymore?
Feb 14, 2025
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Zak Yudhishthu
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