Urbanexus Update - Issue #3
Please scroll down for my weekly selection of articles, documents, images, tweets, and videos about opportunities and challenges to advance equitable and sustainable real estate development within and beyond metropolitan regions.
Articles
Building a connected city from the ground up
Plans for a former military base in Massachusetts to become a “connected city.”
What the census numbers tell us
Growth rates are higher in the heartland than in many of the coastal metropolitan areas of the USA.
Learning from 83 Million eviction records — www.nytimes.com
A review of millions of rental housing evictions offers some perspective on how less fortunate households deal with rental housing in the USA.
Housing for first responders and teachers — www.trulia.com
Increasingly, teachers and first responders struggle to afford homes in the communities where they work.
Video
Creating gardens to discourage unhoused campers — www.facebook.com
It is unclear whether this approach in downtown Los Angeles is legal, but it is certainly creative.
From Twitter
Heat claims more lives than floods, hurricanes and other weather-related disasters putting city dwellers in danger, raising questions about how cities will cope as temperatures rise.
@ldv_ldv — theconversation.com
The rapid rise of Vaughan and Markham, Toronto's northern suburbs.
Simplifying housing supply and demand.
A plan to save design thinking.
@joelkotkin & @wendellcox For much of the past century, Southern California has been driven by ever-increasing population growth. That era has now ended as the region’s demographics stagnate, a trend that, is accelerating.
Apartment rental rates across the USA have been growing for eight consecutive years, despite extensive construction. Overall apartment rents have grown 28.5% from 2010 to 2018--and some markets have experienced much larger increases.
The post-Great Recession housing recovery in the USA continues but housing starts remain low as a percentage of the population.
