Yesterday, we explored the differences in car insurance premiums in the nation’s largest metropolitan areas. Today, we will take a look at homeowners insurance rates. Unlike car insurance, homeowners insurance is not required in states. Still, this insurance can be…
Everyone loves to compare the affordability of different cities, and most of the attention gets focused on differences in housing prices and rents. Clearly, these are a major component of living costs, and they vary substantially across the nation. But…
Four lamentations about a bad infrastructure bill From the standpoint of the climate crisis, the infrastructure bill that passed the Senate is, at a minimum, a tremendous blown opportunity. Transportation, especially private cars, are the leading source of greenhouse gas…
Electric vehicles will help, but we need to do much more to reduce driving Editor’s Note: City Observatory is pleased to offer this guest commentary by Matthew Lewis. Matthew is Director of Communications for California YIMBY, a pro-housing organization working to…
What City Observatory did this week 1. Tackling climate change will require electric cars, and a lot less driving. We’re pleased to publish a guest commentary from CalYimby’s Matthew Lewis looking at the challenge of addressing the role of transportation…