The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Houston's apartment vacancy rate was among the highest in the nation before Hurricane Harvey, after the storm's destruction many of those homes will likely be put to good use.

September 1 - The Houston Chronicle

Because of its high cost of living, California has the nation's highest poverty level, according to the U.S. Census.

September 1 - CALmatters

Rather than trying to make parking lots with expensive surfaces that cost to maintain, Portland should eliminate its parking minimums, according to this article.

September 1 - PDX Shoupistas

Goals for low-income housing were lower in majority white cities and communities than they were in their more diverse neighbors.

September 1 - Los Angeles Times

In what was called a "significant milestone" by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, Trump's controversial border wall project has shown its first tangible results.

September 1 - The Washington Post

Bigger cars and an older population means a growing number of Americans die while crossing the street, and the country is just getting older.

September 1 - Mother Nature Network

Some say that "nonprime" loans will create the same financial ruins as their "subprime" predecessors. Others say the housing market needs ways for more people to buy homes and drive the industry.

September 1 - CNBC

Cities, headlined by New York, are finding new ways to support renters facing eviction.

September 1 - The Nation

The "Inside Out Project: We Are Edison" installation posted large portraits of residents in the Kalamazoo neighborhood of Edison on the side of a building. The exhibition invites the community to take a look at itself.

September 1 - MLive

In 2011, Washington, D.C. adopted the Sustainable D.C. plan, establishing the capital as a leader in green building and sustainability planning. In 2017, the city is the first in the world to achieve a new mark of distinction for its accomplishments.

August 31 - WAMU

KPCC has published an interactive map showing the publicly funded affordable housing developments in Los Angeles County.

August 31 - KPCC

The controversy over a proposed eight-story condo development in Toronto embroiled author Margaret Atwood this week.

August 31 - Toronto Star

The number of dog parks in the United States has almost doubled since 2007. Some worry these spaces are not welcoming or could signal gentrification.

August 31 - The Washington Post

Houston received over 50 inches of rain from Hurricane Harvey in five days. While no city could survive that drenching unscathed, Houston was not prepared to handle the floods due to decades of neglect of stormwater management planning.

August 31 - The Atlantic

Earlier this summer, the governor of New York promised an ambitious plan to fix the MTA subway system. Now, at the end of the promised timeline for that plan, critics are saying that the city is left with more of the same.

August 31 - Politico New York

The city of Seattle provides the geography and market for a housing map that illustrates the differences between single-family and multi-family housing in terms of affordability.

August 31 - Sightline Institute

The research director of the National League of Cities explains the defining characteristics of local economies—namely that of five distinct kinds of local economies, three serve to distinguish the nuances between mid-sized cities.

August 31 - CitiesSpeak

The Milwaukee RiverWalk is already pretty great, but there's still work than can be done.

August 31 - Urban Milwaukee

The city of Memphis is ready to expand its transit system, spending $30 million a year in annual operating cost to add 200,000 service hours to the Memphis Area Transit Authority system.

August 31 - The Commercial Appeal

One of the nation's premier transit systems has a striking new addition.

August 30 - Chicago Tribune