Category: Housing Affordability

Gravel > A new threat to Beltline transit.

Posted on by bradleyaddicks in Housing Affordability, Sprawl, Transit Oriented Development, Transportation

By: Ryan Gravel

Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that we need to make our case for transit again, but I am. Honestly – we’ve been putting colored dots on maps, hand-writing community preferences on sticky-notes, and attending weeknight City Council meetings and mind-numbing Saturday morning public engagement sessions for over fifteen years now – all in support of transit on the Atlanta Beltline. John Lewis was there. And Jane Fonda helped make our video. We didn’t do it because it was fun. We did it to lay the groundwork for the future city we want to live in. Our vision was always transit on the Beltline, and our only challenge to building it was money.

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The Housing Paradox: Why Can’t Cities Build Enough Housing to Match Job Growth?

Posted on by bradleyaddicks in Housing Affordability, Uncategorized

Why do cities with the fastest-growing economies—including Seattle, San Francisco, New York City, and Austin–suffer from a growing imbalance between job growth and housing supply?

A panel at the ULI Spring Meeting in Seattle examined why hot-market cities are failing to build enough housing for new workers, often by staggering ratios. The result is skyrocketing rents and housing prices that exacerbate regional inequality, feel unaffordable even to highly paid new workers, and strain transportation networks as the workforce moves farther out in search of affordable housing.

Source: The Housing Paradox: Why Can’t Cities Build Enough Housing to Match Job Growth? – Urban Land Magazine