Coming Soon to St. Paul: Little Lots
Little attention has been paid to a big proposed change in St. Paul’s zoning code: reducing minimum lot size requirements.
Tag Archives: Housing Affordability
Minnesota Is Not California
Cities are not all the same! And we need to bear that in mind when considering new housing policies, because results may vary.
National Links: Induced Demand Justifies Freeways
Induced demand denial, local solutions for affordable housing, “Livable Streets 2.0” and more in this week’s National Links.
National Links: Best New Bike Lanes in the Country
Top bike projects of 2022, rent control in Boston, aligning climate priorities with city budgets and more national links for the week of February 5, 2023.
Envisioning a More Affordable Summit Avenue (and Rest of St. Paul)
What a Chicago boulevard can teach us about improving our land use in St. Paul.
Rents Dropping in Minneapolis: Behind the Article with Janne Flisrand
Janne wrote an article that got a lot of attention, so Ian sat down with her to chat about the data that led to the article, the policies that got us here, and what the responses to the article have been.
Minneapolis Rents Drop, Bucking National Trends
Twin Cities homes have become steadily less affordable since the 1990s. Recently, however, something has started to shift.
To keep housing cost affordable, Minnesota needs to consider an intercity rail system
The Twin Cities has the worst housing shortage in the nation, as reported by the Star Tribune. This comes as no surprise to many who were in search of a home this past year. Home buyers were met with competing offers tens of thousands over the asking prices. This has escalated the average home sales […]
Why are Building Height Limits in Minneapolis 2040 Delaying Affordable Housing in Whittier?
The City of Minneapolis’s 2040 Comprehensive Plan promised to change our city’s approach to housing. The plan’s central argument is that the city needs more homes, especially since Minneapolis doesn’t have sufficient affordable and supportive housing for our most vulnerable community members. Decades of racist and exclusionary zoning policies have made Minneapolis one of the […]
Sunday Summary – September 1, 2019
Yes, I do enjoy it when the Sunday Summary and the start of a new week land on the first day of a new month. Here’s the end of August from streets.mn Big picture Evan Roberts writes Minneapolis Needs Better Street Design, but Minnesota Needs Better Enforcement and shifts the focus of enforcement saying, “An […]