Casey Brazeal is a Chicago-based writer and planner. His background includes time as a research assistant at the Urban Transportation Center and as a reporter with a weekly column for Extra Newspaper in Chicago. He’s also published news stories and interviews for New City Newspaper, Vócalo Radio and Site Sketch 101. Casey received a Masters in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois in Chicago. While at UIC Casey received a certificate in Public Transit Planning and Management.
Activists Push for Affordable Housing in an Ever More Expensive Miami
Groups advocate moving mismanaged properties into the hands of community trusts, and building more affordable housing in Miami.
More Changes Coming for Transportation
Even as cars and commuter planes look much like they did generations ago, big changes are coming for transportation, argues Timothy B. Lee in a piece for Vox.
Home Ownership Changes, by City and Ethnicity
According to new data released from the real estate website Trulia, Washington, D.C. experienced the largest gain in Black homeownership in the United States over the past 25 years, Chicago had the biggest expansion of Latino homeownership.
Eviction Hot Spot: Chicago's South Shore
Rising rents and low income residents have made this South Side neighborhood a locus for evictions and forced moves.
Electronic Vehicle Permit Moratorium in Philadelphia
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney neither signed nor vetoed the anti-electric car bill allowing it to become law, but is symbolically not giving it his approval.