March 1, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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When affordable housing isn’t, really

Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
 
Many people who care deeply about cities, including yours truly, believe that there should be accommodation for all:  today’s America is increasingly di… Continue reading

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May 12, 2011
by Larry Levine
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New Study Rethinks NYC’s Old Assumptions: Green Roofs May Be the Single Most Cost-Effective Way to Clean Up Waterways

Larry Levine, Senior Attorney, New York As I’ve described in other blogs here, and here, New York City has a nearly 30 billion gallon-per-year problem with raw sewage overflows that’s going to take decades of sustained public and private in… Continue reading

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September 2, 2010
by David Goldstein
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How to Encourage New Home Construction–and How Not To

An article in the San Francisco Chronicle today shows that the idea of federal tax credits to pay buyers to purchase new homes still has some traction, even though most experts quoted in the article agree that this would be ineffective.
But no one seem… Continue reading

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