Development

A Portland B Corp is pushing a more inclusive process for building up a neighborhood. Can Philly learn a lesson from the most gentrified city in America?

Want to encourage Philadelphians to get rid of their car? Pay them

The Fruitvale Transit Village in Oakland has brought many of the benefits associated with gentrification—but few of the negatives

L&I head David Perri is right—co-living may be the best way to create affordable housing in a city that desperately needs it

In the wake of HUD chief Ben Carson’s proposal to triple public housing rent, WURD’s afternoon host calls on the City to find a real solution to our rental woes

The Office of Property Assessments released its 2019 land assessments last week. Too bad they don’t make more sense

What was once an example of organic, messy urban life now feels like a graceless plane. Is that the sort of city we want?

Philly’s ambitious Rail Park project breaks ground in the spring. Can we learn from New York’s experience and use it to help build affordable housing?

WURD’s afternoon host decries what’s missing from PPA conversations: The targeting of poor neighborhoods

Yes, the rent is too damn high, but it's because the pay is too damn low