Sightline Institute is seeking a British Columbia-based housing and cities contributor to research zoning, land use and housing policy and write accessible analysis for its public policy work. Part-time contractor role.

https://www.sightline.org/about/careers/

#urbanism #urbanplanning #HousingPolicy #ZoningReform #LandUse

Removing a parking minimum isn't anti-car. It's anti-mandate. The market decides what's needed.

A suburban grocery will still build parking after minimums are removed - customers need it. A transit-oriented apartment will build less because residents don't. That calibration to actual demand is what a functioning market does. The mandate prevented it for 70 years.

#ParkingReform #ParkingMinimums #ZoningReform #UrbanPlanning

Sightline Institute is hiring a lead researcher, housing and cities to advance pro-housing policy and zoning reform across Cascadia, with a focus on Washington state. $106,000-$125,000 salary.

https://www.sightline.org/lead-researcher-housing-cities/

#urbanism #urbanplanning #HousingPolicy #ZoningReform #Cascadia

Auburn, Alabama, has overhauled its zoning for transit corridors, banning single-story strip malls and implementing height-based regulations to encourage higher-density development. (2 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilLZsztklEs

#urbanism #urbanplanning #ZoningReform #TransitOrientedDevelopment #SmartGrowth

Washington state passed a first-in-the-U.S. law, SB 6026, allowing housing in commercial zones and providing flexibility on ground-floor retail mandates in new apartment buildings, aiming to alleviate the state’s severe housing shortage and reduce vacant commercial spaces.

https://www.sightline.org/2026/03/11/washington-just-passed-first-in-the-us-flexibility-for-ground-floor-retail/

#urbanism #urbanplanning #affordablehousing #zoningreform #mixeduse

Vienna. Tokyo. Land value tax. New cities. Remote work. Slums.
Six real-world proofs that the housing crisis is neither accidental nor inevitable — followed by a warning about where cities go if power remains unchanged.

Read Essay ⬇️
https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/six-proofs-and-a-warning-a-synthesis

#HousingCrisis #UrbanPolicy #HousingAsAPublicGood #ZoningReform #LandValueTax #PoliticalEconomy #Cities #Affordability #NIMBYism #UrbanPlanning

Canada’s cities didn’t drift into crisis. We legislated scarcity, shifted costs to municipalities, and called it inevitable. This essay maps the choices — and the reforms that could make the urban promise real again: supply, non‑market housing, zoning reform, and transit that actually moves people.

A critical essay on Canada’s urban crisis:

https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-canadian-urban-condition

#Urbanism #CanadaHousing #HousingPolicy #ZoningReform #Transit #Homelessness #NonMarketHousing #CityBuilding

The city was humanity's greatest wager: that density creates opportunity, that proximity generates possibility, that strangers pressed together build something larger than themselves.

For most of history, that bet paid off. Then we systematically broke it.

https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-urban-condition-promise-crisis

#Urbanism #HousingCrisis #AffordableHousing #ZoningReform #PoliticalEconomy
#SocialHousing #CityPlanning #Housing #YIMBY #NIMBY #Gentrification
#Homelessness #Infrastructure #LandValueTax #UrbanPlanning #Fediverse

Senate Housing Affordability Bill Clears the Senate but Faces a Harder Test

https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/u-s-politics/senate-housing-affordability-bill/

The Great Downzoning

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-great-downzoning/

#HackerNews #The #Great #Downzoning #urbanplanning #housingpolicy #zoningreform #communitydevelopment