Good decisions result only if state officials are transparent and honest City Observatory has been closely following the proposal to spend $500 million widening the I-5 freeway at the Rose Quarter in Portland. In the process, we and others have…
Low house prices signify problems, not affordability There’s a presumption that low housing prices are a sign of affordability, and a related belief that if housing prices rise, that its “a bad thing” because it must mean that a neighborhood…
Gentrification: Here’s your all-purpose list, from artists to zoning, of who and what’s to blame When bad things happen, we look around for someone to blame. And when it comes to gentrification, which is loosely defined as somebody not like…
Building more market rate housing sets off a chain reaction supply increase that reaches low income neighborhoods Households moving into new market rate units move out of other, lower cost housing, making it available to other households; the propagation of…
They’ll be lined up around the block because the price is too low–just like every day on urban roads You can learn everything you need to know about transportation economics today, just by helping yourself to a free ice cream…