Taking Climate Solutions To New Heights With ADL Ventures
Nat starts a new job with ADL Ventures, a venture developer focusing on solutions for energy, climate, and construction.
Read More
Housing
Suburban Skylines: A California Tech Town’s Growth Struggles
Cupertino, California is fighting against twinned challenges of sky-high housing prices, and an unwillingness of some residents to work to change that.
Read More
Hubbard Farms Gets Serious About Density
Far from the haunted basements of my own portfolio with SDBA, Southwest Detroit is rocking a few new real estate development projects these days, including one that local residents should know about.
Read More
To Sprawl, Or Not To Sprawl: LaSalle, Ontario Mulls Development Plan
If we can get past the fanciful belief that all growth is good growth, we can critically examine the likes of really bad municipal planning in our southern neighbor of Canada.
Read More
Can Second-Floor Apartments Make A Comeback? A New SDBA Grant Program Thinks So.
An ambitious new program in Detroit seeks to provide $10,000 to property owners to renovate and rent out second-floor and third-floor apartments in mixed-use buildings along several major corridors in Southwest Detroit.
Read More
Radiators Vs. Forced Air: Who Will Triumph In Efficiency?
A recent Twitter debate prompted me to think about whether we can’t come up with a better metric to compare the efficiencies of heating systems using radically different methods of thermal transfer. As you can probably guess, there is a better way– but it’s not easy to figure out.
Read More
Will California Get Out Of Its Own Way?
The Bear Republic has been bearish on housing prospects. But a new bill could change that– provided the state and its residents can shake off its affinity for car-dependent suburban sprawl.
Read More
Right-To-Renew, And Other Things
Gentrification and predatory housing practices led policymakers in Ann Arbor to create a new “right-to-renew” ordinance. Could it be a valuable tool in the fight for tenant protections?
Read MorePattern Zoning: What Is It? Is It Good?
The Michigan Municipal League thinks that a modern take on pattern zoning might actually help encourage better infill and planned development.
Read More
Those People: NIMBYism in America’s 17th-Wealthiest County
If you, like me, are a part-time transplant resident of the District of Columbia– and are a policy nerd, no
Read More