Dan Kassik

Making housing more affordable is simple, build more homes and ensure there is a diversity of options amongst the new homes. A 50 year mortgage is one of the worst ideas as it will actually increase the cost of a home. Like 6 year car loans.

We need to focus on actual solutions.

It really is this simple

You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.

The guy who tariffed lumber, who is trying to deport the construction workforce, and who campaigned on his opposition to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing does not actually care about bringing down housing prices.

Trump wants to ax an affordable housing grant that's a lifeline for many rural communities President Donald Trump and House Republicans want to cut new funding for a housing grant that many rural areas rely on to help fund affordable housing

How to say your government hates you without saying your government hates you.

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Too many cities are focused on how to increase revenues to cover costs. A better option is to look at ways to reduce or prevent higher costs. Less road widening, less expansion of infrastructure, vertical development vs. horizontal, etc.

Historic Preservation causes economic stagnation.

AMEN!!!!

In my area people are excited for this development. All I see is acres of parking and the inefficient use of land. Sprawl kills.

Land use decisions are the same as Newton's 3rd Law. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." This is why decisions need to be made to ensure the "opposite reaction" is not more impactful that the main decision. Urban sprawl is an opposite reaction.

Everyone gets a house

Alot of truth in this statement.

Yes indeed, took me 4 years to get our zoning code updated but 2 years was the code sitting on the city managers desk because he did not want to deal with it. Cities are their own worst enemies.

Reviving neighborhood stores Neighborhoods used to be full of local businesses, but they have dwindled over the past century. Maybe it’s time to figure out how to make neighborhoods business-friendly again.

This all resulted because of land use segregation. Definately need more of this type of use

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Insights, Reflections, and What's Next with the BOOMS Tracker Data from the past year and updates on our building inventory tool, the Building Opportunities on Main Street Tracker

Housing availability and affordability in and around a downtown are a huge indirect economic benefit. This also assumes the built environment is enhanced to allow for safe and convenient travel of all forms of mobility.

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5 Ways Urban Planners Can Reflect A Higher Calling In Their Work

If there was ever something that sums up my ideals as a planner, this is it!!!

In most cities economic development has been a failure due to a lack of housing. Cities are still recruiting industry that will create jobs that pay $17 to $20 an hour and expect those employees to afford $400,000+ homes.

Kuddos to Montana!!

Unsafe roads

And yet we keep spending money on building more roads. Insanity.

Everything looks like a conspiracy when you din't know how anything works.

Fact!!!

The building is currently being renovated. We have an entire downtown of these type of buildings.

Thank you for sharing!

New duplexes

New duplexes

New duplexes just about finished. 12 units.

And this is why cities have design standards. We need to stop building strictly for cars.

At what point do people realize that the amount of homes on the market that are not selling are a result of high cost and homes people do not want. Homes that meet the needs of most people are selling well. Large single family homes on large lots are not desirable.

I am amazed at how many people fall into category 1.

What America Can Learn From Tulsa | Washington Monthly Tulsa is a boomtown, again. In Oklahoma’s second-largest city, a new vision of economic development is being born.

Nice article about Tulsa.

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Just got done reading this book. Highly recommend. Very intuitive and a great understanding of our issues as a country.

The Government Wants to Turn Public Land into ‘Affordable Housing’ “Federal Land Can Be Home Sweet Home,” at least according to some of the country’s top brass. Earlier this week, Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott ...

Creating more of the same sprawling single family housing on public land is not going to do anything to help housing affordability. Land is not the issue, lack of density is!
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A short history of traffic engineering