Building more housing lowers rents for everyone
City Observatory Posted on 14 December 202014 December 2020 by Joe Cortright A new study from Germany shows that added housing supply lowers rents across the board A…
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The only reason some people drive is because we pay them to
City Observatory Here’s an insight from tolling: A substantial portion of the people driving on our roadways are only there because we’re subsidizing the cost…
Equity and Metro’s $5 Billion Transportation Bond
City Observatory By Joe Cortright 26.10.2020 Advocates for a $5 billion transportation bond that Portland area voters will be deciding in November are making a specious…
The Great Disconnect: The perverse rhetoric of gentrification
The Great Disconnect
By Jason Segedy
City Observatory is pleased to publish this guest commentary from Akron’s Jason Segedy. It originally appeare…
Covid-19 is now a rural and red state pandemic
Covid-19 now disproportionately affects rural America, and is hitting red states harder than blue ones.
OK, reporters, we’re waiting for the stories…
Op-Ed: Why Most Pedestrian Infrastructure Is Really for Drivers
Streets Blog Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on City Observatory and is republished with permission from the author. Joe Cortright One of the biggest…
“Let them drive Teslas” is not a climate or a justice plan
Portland’s climate emergency efforts are tarnished by an inability to plainly speak the facts about climate change
But the tragic fact is that the c…
Portland awards itself a participation trophy for climate
Portland is utterly failing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, but not to worry, its ticking lots of boxes in its bureaucratic ch…
Covid-19: Surging in Sunbelt cities
The pandemic is exploding in Sunbelt Cities, from the Carolinas to California Covid-19 is subdued in the North and surging in the South Hotter souther…
City Beat: When workers can live anywhere
City Observatory By Joe Cortright, City Observatory Another anecdote-fueled tale predicting of urban decline Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Rachel Feintzeig and Ben Eisen…