Initial Funding Commitments Secured for Modular Housing Platform
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Handbuilt City is thrilled to announce that we recently finalized the terms of two preliminary funding
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Cities & Urban Planning
Mackinac 2024 Speakers: “The Rent Is Too Damn High. We Need More Supply.”
At the Davos of the Midwest, a.k.a. Mackinac Policy Conference 2024, policymakers and other stakeholders put their heads together to figure out how we can make housing more affordable. It’s one of the first times that such a powerful and visible group of people have discussed the issue in Michigan.
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How Many People Took The DAX Bus During The NFL Draft?
The RTA recently started operating a direct bus connection between downtown Detroit and the Airport. It’s ambitious, seamless and easy to use, and comfortable. But how many people are actually using it?
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Tour Ford’s New Michigan Central Project With Matterport
Ford’s Michigan Central Station is finally finished. It opens to the public on June 6th, 2024, but since tickets are sold out, you can still take a virtual tour here.
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Detroit Doesn’t Explicitly Prohibit Parking In Bike Lanes. That’s Weird.
Laws and ordinances are important methods of signaling cultural values embodied by the State. In Michigan’s case, a relatively weak enforcement mechanism around bike lane protections and poor municipal ordinances on the subject seem suspect.
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How Modular Construction Can Help Fix The Housing Market
Industrialized and modular construction have a lot of potential to help fix the housing market. The value proposition is pretty simple. Realizing it, however, is a much heavier lift.
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If Grand Rapids Can Pass Zoning Reform, Anyone Can Do It.
Grand Rapids, the clean-cut, straight-laced, kinda conservative cousin of Detroit from farm country, just passed a groundbreaking zoning reform package. Will Detroit follow suit?
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Happy Birthday, QLINE. It’s Time For An Extension.
Detroit’s QLINE deserves an extension for its seventh birthday, writes Patrick Maynard in this guest editorial, making comparisons to Vienna, whose own subway system is relatively young.
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Austin, Continued – From Downtown to Esperanza
Downtown Austin offered a glimpse at the gleaming towers of corporate glory, while on the far eastern reaches of the city, a site once operated by TxDOT now hosts an emergency shelter that has been creatively redeveloped by a diverse and entrepreneurial team of practitioners.
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NPC24: Yes We Plan, Minneapolis-St. Paul!
Nat returns to the Land of the Rising Passive Aggression to log some CEUs and talk about housing innovation.
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