A new think tank to promote suburban growth has been established in Houston by arguably the media's highest-profile supporters of suburban growth.
Nancy Sarnoff reports that Joel Kotkin has launched a new think tank, to be based in Houston. Kotkin will serve as the group's executive director, while Wendell Cox and blogger Tory Gattis will serve as senior fellows.
Sarnoff quotes a statement from the organization in describing the think tank's agenda: "The center offers a counterpoint to current thinking on smart growth, forced densification and opposition to suburban development…"
The think tank's website promises content on urban issues, small cities, suburbs, housing, planning, demographics, economics, and education.
The website's posts date back to late December, with the announcement of the 10th Annual Demographic International Housing Affordability Survey among the site's first posts. But some of the site's posts are obviously reprinted from other sources, like this post from January 11, 2015 that was also published by the Washington Post in October 2014. The group's twitter feed so far has five followers and zero tweets.
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