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Win-Win Solutions for Climate Protection and Health

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Submitted by Todd Litman on October 2, 2018 - 7:00am

The Call to Action on Climate and Health is an ambitious plan to achieve both global climate and health goals. Planners can help identify win-win solutions that provide multiple benefits and so can build broad implementation coalitions.

Dynamic Planning for Affordability

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Submitted by Todd Litman on September 4, 2018 - 6:00am

Conventional planning is static, designed to lock in existing land use patterns. We need more dynamic planning to respond to changing household needs and community goals.

How Filtering Increases Housing Affordability

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Submitted by Todd Litman on August 27, 2018 - 10:00am

Good research indicates that building middle-priced housing increases affordability through "filtering," as some lower-priced housing occupants move into more expensive units, and over time as the new houses depreciate and become cheaper.

Affordability Trade-offs

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Submitted by Todd Litman on August 2, 2018 - 8:00am

Strategies for increasing affordability often involved trade-offs between various goals and impacts. It is important to consider all of these factors when evaluating potential solutions to unaffordability.

Parking Planning Paradigm Shift

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Submitted by Todd Litman on July 5, 2018 - 1:00pm

More efficient parking management can benefit everybody, including motorists, businesses, residents, and any planner who becomes an expert on this subject, as I can report from experience.

Understanding Location-Efficient Affordability Impacts

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Submitted by Todd Litman on April 29, 2018 - 1:00pm

A recent study suggests that families save little by moving to location-efficient neighborhoods. There are good reasons to be skeptical of that conclusion.

Autonomous Vehicle Reality

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Submitted by Todd Litman on March 27, 2018 - 6:00am

Planners must be realistic. Autonomous vehicles will probably provide smaller net benefits, including safety benefits, than optimists predict.

True Affordability: Critiquing the International Housing Affordability Survey

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Submitted by Todd Litman on March 12, 2018 - 2:00pm

The International Housing Affordability Survey is biased in ways that make urban-fringe housing seem more affordable and infill seem less affordable. Anybody who uses this analysis should be warned.

Fun Parking Facts

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Submitted by Todd Litman on January 29, 2018 - 9:00am

Parking requirements are the dark matter of the urban universe: they affect transport and land use in mysterious ways. These fun facts illustrate the costs and impacts of economically excessive parking supply.

A New Traffic Safety Paradigm

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Submitted by Todd Litman on December 18, 2017 - 1:00pm

Despite numerous traffic safety programs, traffic death rates have not declined in a decade and recently started to increase. We can do better! A new paradigm identifies additional safety strategies that reduce both crash rates and risk exposure.

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Todd Litman's blog

Win-Win Solutions for Climate Protection and Health

Dynamic Planning for Affordability

How Filtering Increases Housing Affordability

Affordability Trade-offs

Parking Planning Paradigm Shift

Understanding Location-Efficient Affordability Impacts

Autonomous Vehicle Reality

True Affordability: Critiquing the International Housing Affordability Survey

Fun Parking Facts

A New Traffic Safety Paradigm

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