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A Federal Child Credit: Like Automatic Renter Aid, But Better
A federal child credit, a concept backed by both President Joe Biden and Senator Mitt Romney—a monthly payment of $250 to $350 for each child with a Social Security number—would be an epochal victory in the fight to house vulnerable Americans. The payments, which would phase out for the wealthiest families under both proposals, would be far less than the cost of raising a child. In 2015, the United States...Read more » -
Verified: More Parking Puts More Cars on the Road
Do cities create greener lifestyles? Or do they just enable them? It’s very, very, very clear that people who live closer to other people drive less. But how much of this is due to the fact that people who were already predisposed to driving less—those of us who don’t particularly enjoy driving, for example—are deliberately living where parking is scarce and buses are frequent? A forthcoming academic paper finally begins...Read more » -
The Case Against Gas In Our Homes
The case against gas in our homes and for electrifying buildings—a way forward that’s better for our climate, health, and wallets.Read more » -
UPDATED: State Incentives for Local Abundant Housing Policy
Washington state legislators eye three new state-wide strategies to incentivize cities to adopt local abundant housing rules and tackle the state’s affordability crisis by addressing the home shortage.Read more » -
Ranked Choice Voting Frees Electeds to Sidestep Party Lockstep
Murkowski was flexing new power afforded by ranked choice voting elections in Alaska when she made the comment about possibly leaving the Republican Party.Read more » -
Suddenly, Zoning Reforms are Popping up Everywhere
This has been, among other things, a very good week for housing action in the United States. On Tuesday evening, the city council of Sacramento, California, voted 9-0 for a plan that would, if it reaches final approval in a year, re-legalize four homes by right on every residential lot. It would remove parking mandates citywide and allow lots to be subdivided by right. Just as importantly, the concept currently...Read more » -
What Do Georgia’s Senate Runoffs Mean for Federal Action on Housing?
Update January 6, 2021: Victories for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in yesterday’s Georgia Senate runoff election will hand over control of the US Senate to Democrats in the next Congress. It’s a critical step toward realizing President-elect Joe Biden’s exemplary housing proposals. However, Senate Republicans can obstruct federal action on housing with the filibuster. To boost funding for Section 8 vouchers or the Housing Trust Fund, Democrats can bypass...Read more » -
The Hidden Costs of “Over-Parking” Our Cities
The hidden costs of over-parking our cities: Excessive parking rules put cars before people–hiking home prices and pollution.Read more » -
Do We Already Have the Money for a Guaranteed Income?
In a moment when his country seemed awash in both progress and mounting peril, Martin Luther King Jr. embraced one of the world’s oldest policy ideas. It was January 1967. Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement were navigating new political schisms and a backlash from some working-class white voters in the 1966 midterm elections. King, his wife, Coretta Scott King, and two employees flew to a small town on the...Read more » -
Let’s Make Alaska Absentee Voting Boring Again
Here are six ways to make Alaska absentee voting work even better. Boring elections work better for voters and democracy.Read more »