Housing + Cities
Winning Abundant Housing: Japan and New Zealand
In all the industrial world, Japan has perhaps the best housing economy and New Zealand may have the worst. What lessons do they offer to teach other places?
Tenants’ Rights in Our Backyard—and Tenants in Our Coalition, Too
Jamey Duhamel (Portland Bureau of Transportation), Tram Hoang (Housing Justice Center), and moderator Shelby King (Shelterforce) share their experiences in housing accessibility and tenants’ rights advocacy.
You’re a YIMBY? Great, Why Aren’t You a Small Developer Yet?
Payton Chung (Westover Green LLC), Nicholas Papaefthimiou (infillPDX LLC), and Neil Heller (Neighborhood Workshop) break down what it takes to build small-scale infill housing.
West Coast Case Studies: Advocacy for and Implementation of Legislation for Regional Housing Needs
Representative Julie Fahey, Lorelei Juntunen (ECONorthwest), Jamie Ptacek (Futurewise), and Aaron Eckhouse (California YIMBY) compare and contrast how Washington, Oregon, and California require local governments to plan for housing in a YIMBYtown 2022 panel.
Land Use Policy Is Climate Policy Is Housing Policy
Joe Cortright (City Observatory), Ben Holland (RMI), Jarred Johnson (TransitMatters), and moderator Ben Crowther (CNU) discuss how policies around land use, climate, and housing are all interconnected, and how we must strategically address transportation, transit, and housing issues to address the climate crisis.
Portland Events: Housing-Themed Story Slam and Panel
Jerusalem Demsas, Rukaiyah Adams, Sam Diaz, Dr. Marisa Zapata, and others will discuss abundant housing’s contribution to a sustainable, equitable future.
How Much Are Gas Taxes? Most People Don’t Know
So let’s give clear, meaningful transportation subsidies instead.
The Vancouver Region Is Leading the Way in Housing
An abundance of new homes in the works has the Vancouver, BC metro area far outpacing its US West Coast neighbors and making up for decades of underbuilding, but those plans must become reality for the region to truly win at housing.