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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 …
Trouble in Paradise: BC’s Local Elections Shake Up Housing Policy
To paraphrase Calvin Coolidge: The chief business of British Columbia is British Columbia. Construction and real estate add up to …
Actually, Let’s Not Set Aside Land Next to Rail Lines for Mansionization
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Two years from next month, Portland’s regional government plans to ask voters for about a billion dollars to help build …
Weekend reading 9/28/2018
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Eric This is the season to read “The End of Summer,” a poem by Stanley Kunitz. I recommend Mark O’Connell’s …
Tualatin, Job-Rich but Home-Scarce, Looks for Solutions
When Stefan Schmidt is recruiting a new mid-level employee, he draws a circle in his mind: a 45-minute driving radius …
Portland Now Has the Smartest Parking Policies in the Northwest
We’re going to call it: No city in the Northwest, and few cities in North America, are doing parking policy …
Growing Seattle Ups the Ante on Green and Complete Streets
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Editor’s note: This is the fourth and final installment in a series on how trees and plants help to slow …
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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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