Let's stop pretending we know the simple antidote to the painful symptoms our housing prices are expressing and instead humble ourselves to admit that we don't understand all the complexity.
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The world is experienced much differently at thirty miles per hour than it is at two or three.
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As our cities experience decline and tension, as frayed budgets cut back on what governments are capable of delivering, people need to be allowed to turn the bad party in their cities, towns and neighborhoods into a good one.
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Your membership supports us financially and that is important, but it is critical that our movement be expanding simply in raw numbers as well. Where we are today, with the resources we need to secure to take the next step, the validation of a growing movement cannot be understated. It is the difference.
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When you become a member of Strong Towns, you are supporting a change in the conversation. You are giving us the resources that we need to get this powerful message in front of more and more people. It’s working. All we need today is your support.
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Our job as Strong Towns advocates is to share our message, to keep bringing the conversation back to the persistent fact that our current approach is not working financially. We’re broke and so we must start thinking differently.
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We have come up with many ways to explain the decline we see around us. In reality, we've simply given our cities no other option.
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A fetish with density is spiking the rising tide of housing demand in cities like Portland. To make housing affordable, we have to deal with the cause of the spike.
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When the issue of housing affordability comes up again and again, it is always tied to the agreed upon narrative that Portland is growing and will continue to grow, world without end. I don't buy that.
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Where improvement is not an option, stagnation and decline are all that remain.
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"Build it and they will come" transit has distorted the housing market in Portland.
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It's the incremental nature of both the private and the public investments that made traditional cities strong, resilient and financially productive.
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Refuting 4 myths about why housing in Portland (and cities like it) is so expensive.
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It is incrementally rising land values, combined with the ability to redevelop to something more intense, that naturally prompts the redevelopment of property in decline. Take away one of those two factors and redevelopment breaks down.
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If we can align the incentives of the players involved, we can build infrastructure that is actually necessary and while doing it quicker and at lower prices than we do now.
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The condition on State Street is dangerous for anyone outside of a automobile. The city is well aware of this fact. Something must be done.
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Cities need to be given the responsibility -- and the ability -- to fund their own local transportation improvements.
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The case of Mats Järlström and the Oregon licensing board is an absolute embarrassment for the traffic engineering profession.
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We're not as smart as we think we are.
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I'd like you to join with me and the many good people of Worcester as we mourn the passing of this amazing building.
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