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This is just the beginning of Stacked Against Us, our new podcast on the housing crisis. Join host Asia Mieleszko as she explores how a national gamble broke housing, and why local resilience is the only way forward.
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We're changing *everything* about the North American pattern of development. You can help make it happen by becoming a member today!
- Philadelphia: 2020 and 2023. Which looks like a more productive street?
- "As reported by The Globe and Mail, residents spent a total of $181 million at curbside patios within 13 weeks of summer in 2021. If those spaces had remained dedicated to parking, only $3.7 million would have been reaped during the same time period."
- Beautiful transformation in Makati, Philippines. This street is now safer for people walking, rolling, and driving alike due to simple infrastructure changes designed to slow motor vehicles.
- Hoboken, New Jersey is a dense city center that hasn’t had a traffic death in over 4 years. They’ve accomplished this by creating more narrow, one-way streets, high visibility crosswalks, raised intersections, curb extensions, bike & bus lanes, and removing parking spaces.
- Towns: why does no one spend time here anymore? Also towns:
- We used to build these all over North America, until zoning laws effectively made them illegal. It’s time to bring back missing middle housing.
- North American cities often go from skyscrapers to sprawl because we’ve made middle housing styles like fourplexes and mixed-use multiplexes illegal. If we want to build livable, human-scale places again, we have to start by legalizing them with zoning and parking reforms.
- Pedestrian deaths in the US have reached a 40-year high. It’s time for @USDOT to take this crisis seriously and start redesigning our streets to be safe for everyone.
- Historic districts make up some of our highest value areas where people love to visit and long to live, yet we’ve made building this style of development illegal almost everywhere in North America.
- For the first time, the Federal Highway Administration is acknowledging what a stroad is, and by extension, what a street and road are. That's huge!
