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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 …

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Michael leads Sightline’s work transitioning Cascadia away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner energy sources.

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