Ashley Salvador is a housing advocate and city councilor in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Discourse about affordable housing is dominated by a handful of extremely unrepresentative places, and the solutions that might be applicable in those places don't translate in the rest of the U.S.
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Two prominent communities in Berkshire County, MA, are in the midst of deciding what to prioritize on their main streets: cars or people?
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Neighbors in Chapel Hill, NC, mobilized to raise awareness of property tax inequities within their community…and ultimately brought about a $7-million reduction in home assessed values.
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Part of having transparent local accounting is ensuring that the people living in a community know and understand the public costs associated with their homes and businesses. Right now, that isn’t the case in most places.
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This week, our Neighborhood Storyteller connects with people in her community while working under pressure.
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Highlights from #BlackFridayParking 2022: Americans say land wasted on unused parking could be used for something greater.
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Balancing the books in Canada, playgrounds, and fantasy plagues. These are just some of the stories from around the internet that Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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Most parking lots on Black Friday are not going to be full. Here’s one retail complex that’s an exception—but it just proves that having “enough” parking is always less important than creating a place people want to be.
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Jason Slaughter (of the Not Just Bikes channel) and Nathan Allebach (on TikTok) have made millions stop what they’re doing and listen to Strong Towns ideas. Here are their stories.
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Burlington, VT; Nashville, TN; and Cambridge, MA, are eliminating parking minimums. What can we learn from their efforts?
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A recent study on curbside dining in Toronto found that there are loads of financial possibilities waiting in empty parking spaces.
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Parking reform is sweeping the nation, and that’s great news—but the battle isn’t over, yet. Here are the next steps cities need to consider once they’ve begun abolishing parking minimums.
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Strong Towns member and former Jackson, MS, resident Amanda Lanata comes to the Strong Towns Podcast to discuss the role that racism played in the city’s recent water crisis.
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To close out Member Week, we’re setting aside our usual staff Friday Faves to instead highlight the voices of just a few of our million local heroes!
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Strong Towns’ new director of community action, Edward Erfurt, joins Chuck Marohn to talk about the Community Action Lab—a 24-month program that will put participating communities on the path to prosperity.
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Edward Erfurt was one of the very first 100 Strong Towns members…and now he’s one of our newest staff members! Today, he shares his membership journey as we close out Member Week.
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On today’s special episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck and Strong Towns Development Associate Grace Whately go behind the scenes on one of our biggest new projects: the Crash Analysis Studio.
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On this special episode of The Bottom-Up Revolution, Chuck Marohn talks with our member advocate, Norm Van Eeden Petersman, about Strong Towns membership and the new initiatives we plan to launch soon.
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Strong Towns member Victoria Via talks about how advocates of many different personal and professional backgrounds are coming together in Portland, OR.
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