Coronavirus and Urbanism
If the combined effects of winter's cold and the pandemic has you bummed, check out this community-building exercise in the frozen North.
PlaceShakers
Housing policy can ensure a sustainable economic recovery by focusing on five outcomes.
Urban Institute
Blog post
Commemorate Inauguration Day by digging deep into the promises and potential of the Biden Administration.
Blog post
Checking in with the numerous risks in the housing market as the economic fallout of the pandemic as approaches it approaches its second year.
The decrease in U.S. economic activity during the pandemic year of 2020 reduced the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 10.3 percent.
Rhodium Group
Almost a year into the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Urban Institute assesses what we've learned about transportation equity—and what these lessons mean for the future.
Urban Institute
With car ownership rates soaring, the fight for the city's free street parking spots is intensifying.
The New York Times
Blog post
The latest in a series of compendia tackling the effects of the pandemic, now and in the future, for cities and communities.
Appearing on a Sunday news show, Mayor Eric Garcetti noted that the Los Angeles metropolitan region is the nation's densest and one of two primary reasons why "we're seeing a person every six seconds contract COVID-19 here in Los Angeles County."
CBS News
Feature
If ever there was a doubt about the sheer depth and breadth of intersectionality found in the practice and theory of planning, the pandemic provides daily reminders.
Blog post
Since COVID-19 won't last forever, planners should not act as if it will, according to this opinion.
California's effort to create emergency supportive housing options during the pandemic has completed a large-scale acquisition process.
Office of Governor Gavin Newsom
Feature
If ever there was a doubt about the sheer depth and breadth of intersectionality found in the practice and theory of planning, the pandemic provides daily reminders.
The working class that make ski towns run are getting squeezed out of work by public health restrictions while wealthy newcomers push real estate markets to crazy new heights.
Adventure Journal
An annual review of the world of architecture and design from design critics at the Dallas Morning News and Curbed.
Medium
The New York State Legislature convened for a special session between holidays to implement new protections in the housing market.
The New York Times
Although homeowners have so far accessed financial relief from the pandemic much more easily than renters, housing counselors are bracing for a foreclosure crisis as forbearance terms start to end.
Shelterforce Magazine
Feature
The most-read news, features, and blogs on Planetizen in that year that was 2020.
A few last minute changes were included in the version of the COVID-19 Emergency Relief Act of 2020, approved by Congress last night.
APA Advocates via Twitter
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies releases its "The State of the Nation’s Housing 2020" report last month.
Housing Matters
