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From Highways to Homes: The Opportunity to Reconnect Communities Divided by Freeways
This article is part of the series YIMBYtown 2022 The conversation shared below was part of the YIMBYtown 2022 conference, cohosted by Sightline Institute and Portland: Neighbors Welcome.* At its peak, federal highway construction demolished 37,000 homes a year to make way for roads. More than 1 million Americans—a significant …
Parking Reform: From Theory to Practice 
This article is part of the series YIMBYtown 2022 The conversation shared below was part of the YIMBYtown 2022 conference, …
Fighting the Freeway Industrial Complex and What It Means for Housing, Infrastructure, and Transit
This article is part of the series YIMBYtown 2022 The conversation shared below was part of the YIMBYtown 2022 conference, …
Housing Abundance Requires Abundant Transportation
This article is part of the series YIMBYtown 2022 The conversation shared below was part of the YIMBYtown 2022 conference, …
Q&A: The Costs of Parking Mandates in Booming Austin
Housing reformers from all over the country are currently in Portland, Oregon, for YIMBYtown, a national conference about housing abundance …
Land Use Policy Is Climate Policy Is Housing Policy
This article is part of the series YIMBYtown 2022 The conversation shared below was part of the YIMBYtown 2022 conference, …
How Much Are Gas Taxes? Most People Don’t Know
Author’s note June 2022: As American families buckle under high gas prices and the Biden administration considers a gas tax …
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Michael Andersen
Senior Housing Researcher and Transportation Lead.
Michael leads Sightline’s work transitioning Cascadia away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner energy sources.
Catie Gould
Senior Researcher
Laura is a fellow with Sightline Institute, focused on energy policy, particularly natural gas infrastructure and building decarbonization.
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