Ten Scary Things This Halloween
A spoiler alert: none of these things have anything to do with inflatable skeletons, horror movies, or my anxiety about end-of-semester grading.
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Events
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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A Spreadsheet Of All Of The Movement Acts This Weekend.
Electronic music is one of the only things that is almost as quintessentially Detroit as an American-made car. Fortunately, whether or not you’re going to the Movement festival, there is plenty going on this weekend.
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Coming To Detroit for the NFL Draft? Here’s What You Need To Know.
If you’re in Detroit for the 2024 NFL Draft, make sure you actually explore outside downtown. There’s plenty more to do, plenty to see, and much good food to be et [sic].
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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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YIMBY Meetup in April!
On April 4th, The Handbuilt City and ADL Ventures will host an event at Batch Brewing Company in Detroit to talk about how we can unlock housing opportunity using industrialized construction and regulatory innovation.
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You Can’t Zone For Love. But Regulatory Reform Could Increase The Supply Of Love In Your Heart.
Nat returns with some bad Valentine’s Day jokes about sustainable urbanism.
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Does Big Oil Deserve A Seat At COP28?
The world’s favorite international stopover for consumer largesse and one of the biggest oil producers in the world is hosting the UN’s climate conference. Should we be outraged? Or ever more invested?
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POCACITO Transatlantic Forum on Climate and Environmental Justice
New friends, old friends, and comrades, generally, in this most righteous struggle for climate and environmental justice, met up last week at the POCACITO Transatlantic Forum in Washington, DC.
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