When Is A Building A High-Rise?
No, this is not a silly riddle with a dad joke punchline, it’s a genuine question– and one that comes
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Policy
Affordable Housing Crisis: Why Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)?
The ADU is everything good about tiny house, without the contextual vacuum. Is it enough to solve the housing crisis? Perhaps not, but it’s a significant enough tool in the toolkit that everyone should think about it.
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Making Sense of the Tariff Cliff
The chaotic trade declarations coming out of the White House- which resembles less strategic public policy with a defined end goal, and more unstructured bloviating for the purpose of grandstanding, is doing weird things to markets and businesses.
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Streamlining City Approvals Will Speed Up Housing, Says New Paper
Researchers from the University of California Los Angeles and California State Northridge used a set of mathematical and statistical models to explain how improving bureaucratic processes in building departments could have outsized effects on increasing the rate of housing development.
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NREL Prizes for Energy Innovation
The Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are teaming up to produce a series of competitive prize programs to facilitate innovation in energy and decarbonization.
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Everything’s Bigger In Texas, Including The YIMBY Movement
Keep Austin weird? Or, “keep Austin’s built environment thoroughly eclectic and its infrastructure slightly dysfunctional”? Lessons from the first YIMBYTown conference in the Lone Star State.
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Drew Dilkens: “We Must Preserve Single Family Zoning At All Costs!”
Windsor, Ontario is fighting the federal government’s housing plan in order to “protect the character of the neighborhood.”
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Hubbard Farms Signs On To Lawsuit Against Zug Island Concrete Plant
When news broke last fall that Governor Whitmer’s administration had cherry-picked air quality data to justify the granting of a
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The GOP Released Their Policy Blueprint For 2025. It’s A Mess.
The Republican Party has drafted its “policy” plans for 2025, when they at this point seem unlikely to be able to retake the White House. While there are some valuable points in critiquing the structure of the federal regulatory apparatus, most of the over-arching objectives include dismantling federal agencies and applying theocratic and corporatist dogma to American public policy.
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Vape eWaste Recycling: Showing The Business Math
The question I’ve gotten a lot in the process of planning this eWaste recycling program is, of course, “how much
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