Photo by Alexa Gaul on Unsplash The 100 largest private landowners in the U.S. own 40 million acres—an area the size of Florida. By Dave Merrill, Devon Pendleton, Sophie Alexander, Jeremy C.F. Lin and Andre TartarSeptember 6, 2019 Jeff Bezos spent summers on his grandparents’… Read More »Here’s Who Owns the Most Land in America
On The Media WNYC Friday, August 30, 2019 Going beyond point-A-to-point-B mobility. The lion’s share of our transit-oriented program this week has centered on the personal car and its infrastructure. This is no accident. The car speeds, stalls, thrills and kills us — all because… Read More »Understanding Rights in Transit
Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans. By Brian Goldstone August 21, 2019 Photographs by Sheila Pree Bright for The New Republic Last August, Cokethia Goodman returned home from work to discover a typed… Read More »The New American Homeless
By EMILY BADGER and QUOCTRUNG BUIJUNE 18, 2019 Townhomes, duplexes and apartments are effectively banned in many neighborhoods. Now some communities regret it. Single-family zoning is practically gospel in America, embraced by homeowners and local governments to protect neighborhoods of tidy houses from denser development nearby. Residential land… Read More »Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot
by Lindy Davies It has been generally assumed, for many years, that “the free market isn’t good at providing affordable housing.” If the free market can’t satisfy that basic, universal human need, then we can’t afford to trust the free market, can we? Oddly, the… Read More »Affordable Housing
BIL: Oakland 2016 Recession Generation was an Earthsharing.org conference in Oakland, California on July 9th, 2016. The Intentional Communities Panel explored new ways of living communally, and the need to respond to the housing affordability crisis with revised land use policy. Betsy Morris, a partner with Co-Housing… Read More »Intentional Communities and Alternative Housing
Few people illustrate the reach and influence of online discussion better than Matthew Rognlie. In April 2014, the 26-year-old MIT student had just read Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and among the numerous reviews of the book, he felt that a nagging problem was not… Read More »The Evidence Is In: Land Is The Cause of Inequality
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