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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms has promised to deliver 20,000 units of affordable housing by 2026.

February 6 - Curbed Atlanta

Black homeownership climbed in 2019, but still lags far behind homeownership rates for the entire country.

February 6 - Urban Institute

Auto-dependence starts with land use, and zoning codes ensure everyone pays for the privilege only available to some.

February 6 - Vice

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Sergio Peña, of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Mexico, writes about a recent article he authored in the Journal of Planing Education and Research.

February 6 - JPER

The idea of filtering is key to pro-housing-development arguments of the benefits of market-rate housing to the affordability of housing. New research finds that filtering is highly variable depending on location.

February 6 - Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Sea levels are rising at an accelerating rate, continuing a trend that began in 2013 or 2014, and pushes coastal communities toward the extreme end of the possible spectrum of sea-level rise.

February 5 - USA Today

San Antonio's investment in more frequent service on several popular routes has resulted in many more riders.

February 5 - NEWS4SA

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority recently announced a plan to sell the naming rights to the station formerly known as University City Station.

February 5 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Trump administration prefers the Neoclassical style of buildings like the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.

February 5 - Architectural Record

Plans for numerous large-scale developments in the region mean thousands of housing units should be on the way, but constant delays and setbacks have left projects nowhere near completion.

February 5 - San Francisco Chronicle

"Everything You Think You Know About Housing Is Probably Wrong," reads the headline of this New York Times article.

February 5 - The New York Times

A recommendation to move trains under the New River instead of over an existing drawbridge comes with a hefty price tag.

February 5 - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Rezoning has resulted in the loss of affordable housing in areas like the South Bronx, and any proposals need to consider the long-term racial equity impacts, according to a recent report by Churches United for Fair Housing.

February 5 - City Limits

Houston is famous in planning circles for lacking a zoning code, but that doesn't mean planners don't have plenty of tools to determine the future of the city.

February 4 - Planning Magazine

In a planning area encompassing Hamilton, Hendricks, Boone, Johnson, Morgan, Shelby and Hancock counties in Indiana, streets with no sidewalks outnumber streets with sidewalks by more than two to one.

February 4 - Indianapolis Star

An expansion of Interstate 405 in the Seattle region will include bus rapid transit stations that will allow vehicles to travel even faster along the new transit corridor.

February 4 - The Urbanist

Los Angeles has taken a rare step in anti-eviction action, considering the use of eminent domain to protect tenants of an apartment building in a gentrifying part of the city.

February 4 - Los Angeles Magazine

The state law that set urban growth boundaries around the state is in its fourth decade as suburban sprawl expands urban growth boundaries around Washington.

February 4 - The Urbanist

Spoiler alert: not much.

February 4 - Streetsblog USA

Decatur, Georgia planned big for bike infrastructure, and now car commuters are saying traffic is more congested than ever.

February 4 - Atlanta Journal Constitution