Tag: pocket neighborhoods

Are We There Yet? Affordability in the ‘New Normal’

Ben Brown
Ben Brown July 7, 2014
Pretty soon we’ll have something like a decade of experience in losing our innocence about housing affordability. Isn’t it about time we got over it? For a good part of the last century, we trained generations of housing consumers and housing enablers to buy and sell into what Chuck Marohn calls a “growth Ponzi... Continue Reading
Category Economic Development, Financing, Planning and Design, Public Policy, Resilience
Tags affordable housing, Ben Brown, Bruce Tolar, cottages, creative class, John Anderson, katrina cottage, pocket neighborhoods, Richard Florida, Ross Chapin
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The Data is In: Let the heavy lifting begin

Ben Brown
Ben Brown February 2, 2013
The good news about making the redevelopment of American neighborhoods more responsive to 21st century American needs is that we seem to have a pretty good grasp on the problem: We have a lot more isolated, supersized, energy-sucking housing than we want or can afford. And we have a lot less compact, close-in, energy-efficient... Continue Reading
Category Back of the Envelope, Community Development, Development, Economic Development, Planning and Design, Public Policy
Tags Baby Boomers, Ben Brown, cottage living, cottages, housing, katrina cottage, Millennials, pocket neighborhoods, suburban
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