The 2017 Law That Could Boost Housing Under Trump 2.0

Drexel’s Metro Finance head on what cities can learn from … Alabama

By Ross Baird and Bruce Katz

Cities Will Save The Country

Drexel’s Metro Finance director on the return of “New Localism” in the second age of Trump

By Bruce Katz and Florian Schalliol
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2024

The YIMBYS Have Won

San Francisco pro-housing activist and Philly native Sonja Trauss will return to her hometown on November 15 to herald a solution to our housing crisis. Here, she reflects on how to avoid the pitfalls of Bay Area unaffordability

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Development for Good

Ray Philly

From the outside, this brand-new Olde Kensington development looks like the rest of the shiny luxury options. Inside, however, it’s all about the arts and community.

By Courtney DuChene

The Folly of Free Parking

What Philly can learn and gain (affordable housing!) from doing the unthinkable: Making our parking spots more expensive.

By Malcolm Burnley

Is it Time for a Housing Safety Net?

American families should always have a stable place to call home. Drexel’s Metro Finance head makes the case for doing it right

By Bruce Katz

Treat Housing Like an Industry in Need of a Plan

The federal housing crisis requires a rethinking of how we build and who is doing it. Drexel’s Metro Finance head lays out a plan

By Bruce Katz
Guest Commentary

Council, Do Your Homework on Housing Prices

A Temple University law professor warns about the potential dangers of City Council’s plan to ban pricing software landlords use to set rents in Philadelphia

By Salil K. Mehra

Make Building Easier

Drexel’s Metro Finance head with two federal housing policy ideas that mobilize resources and reduce barriers to creating housing for all Americans

By Bruce Katz
The New Urban Order

How Cities Can Reverse The “Human Doom Loop”

What’s happening to people is more worrisome than the fate of office buildings. An urbanist has city-centric solutions.

By Diana Lind