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New York's Transit system has long lacked facilities to allow wheelchair users access to many of their stations.

May 3 - Crain's New York Business

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Community is built through altruism, but planners are taught to think of self interest as the biggest motivator of human behavior. How do we use planning skills to encourage public goods and community interest?

May 2 - Bruce Stiftel

A plan for a 660-acre park, originally put forward in 2016, now has institutional backing.

May 2 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Four chiefs of hospitals in the Detroit area pen an opinion piece in support of public transit as a key factor in public health outcomes.

May 2 - Detroit Free Press

Despite new construction, Miami homes remain stubbornly expensive. An opinion piece for Next City makes the case for community land trusts as a solution.

May 2 - Next City

Interview with the co-author of the report "Social Housing in the United States," on the politics of home ownership, why public housing needs to be mixed-income, and providing adequate, affordable housing to all citizens.

May 2 - Shelterforce/Rooflines

Inclusive transit oriented development is a top priority with Sound Transit's new surplus land policy.

May 2 - Public Square: A CNU Journal

The California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund, unlike other renters groups, sees increased housing production as key to bringing down rents. It is enforcing the Housing Accountability Act in cities that arbitrarily deny new construction.

May 2 - California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund

Longtime planner and journalist Bill Fulton took on a side-project in the 2000s: a seat on the city council and then mayorship of the city of Ventura, California. Fulton's new book Talk City offers a real-time account of local politics.

May 2 - California Planning & Development Report

The Twin Cities found the secret to bus service success, but it was never really a secret.

May 2 - Streetsblog USA

Transit advocates suffered a resounding defeat in Nashville yesterday. The Let's Move Nashville plan does not have the funding to build-out its ambitiously pro-transit agenda.

May 2 - Tennessean

In addition to commuter trains hauled by an electric or diesel-powered locomotive, there are EMUs and DMUs, and come 2021, for the first time in North America, there should be a ZEMU thanks in part to a $30 million California transportation grant.

May 1 - California Assembly Press Release

According to a new study, fewer than 10 percent of homes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are priced for first-time buyers.

May 1 - The Dallas Morning News

Tired of facing beach erosion and the threats of hurricanes in Florida, but still want beachfront property? This new suburban community is simply building its own beach.

May 1 - Modern Cities

More people live in multi-generational homes than ever, according to analysis of Census data by the Pew Research Center.

May 1 - The Washington Post

In Seattle, securing every new bike lane seems like a "tooth and nail" fight. But across a border to the north, vigorous initial opposition melted away as a connected system took shape.

May 1 - The Seattle Times

Where is gentrification most likely to occur in cities like Detroit? And how can that data guide policy? A new report provides some insight.

May 1 - Forbes

The city of Baltimore is ready to make a concerted effort in planning for multiple modes of transportation and all users of the public realm.

May 1 - The Baltimore Sun

Wireless electric vehicle charging built into the street and smart dynamic signal system are among the improvements under consideration in Dallas.

May 1 - Dallas Innovates

Across racial and economic lines, not all cities are recovering equally.

May 1 - Color Lines