Housing

The adaptive reuse of a 1920s parking garage at 3121 N. Broadway transformed it into new housing close to the 'L' and the Lakefront Trail.

It’s time to build on the success of the transit-oriented development ordinance and eliminate parking minimums for housing city-wide. 

The city calls the document a plan to address the city’s housing segregation, disparities in access to opportunity, and history of inequitable investment.

Steven helped educate decision-makers about the issue in advance of the legislation, which re-legalizes accessory dwelling units.

What happens when you build housing around transit, but it's not affordable to the people who ride transit the most?

Public records show the racks were installed to deter homeless people from staying under a viaduct, not to help people get somewhere.

A conversation about how to have uncomfortable conversations, moderated by Charles T. Brown and featuring Tamika Butler, Sahra Sulaiman, Sonia Jimenez, and author Richard Rothstein.

A tax on parking could generate funds for affordable housing and transit in Atlanta. The question is whether the city has the political appetite to enact it.

Just a few months ago we were being told—erroneously, in our view–that the McMansion was making a big comeback. Then, last week, there were a wave of stories lamenting the declining value of McMansions. Bloomberg published: “McMansions define ugly in a new way: They’re a bad investment –Shoddy construction, ostentatious design—and low resale values.”  The Chicago Tribune chimed in “The McMansion’s day has come and gone.” Whither are these monster homes headed?