Tag: transportation

It looks like President Obama and his administration kept most of the great ideas explored with the Grow America Act, last year's transportation initiative. The total investment is increased to $478 billion and expanded to six years in the latest iteration of the budget released yesterday. A few of the best pieces for low-income communities […]

Across the country, regions are working to improve and integrate processes to create livable communities where all residents can affordably access housing, jobs, healthcare,...

Looks like the Obama administration hasn't given up yet on tackling the big issues that plague our country.Secretary Anthony...

Living in Central New Jersey, I’ve had a ringside seat for the last few years to one of the...

HUD and the Department of Transportation recently released the Location Affordability Portal, a new website designed to share information...

In the city, many working people and senior citizens rely on public transit to get to the office, doctor appointments,...

It’s been clear for several years that more people than ever support public transit. In vote after vote, people...

President Obama on April 29 nominated Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx for Secretary of Transportation. Transit advocates are hoping that Foxx's...

The affordable housing world is paying attention to the connection between housing costs and transportation costs, and that’s a good...

The path to a walkable, livable urban future is filled with hurdles.  Take, for instance, the public transit battle being...

My son, who is approaching 2 years of age, is obsessed with trains. And it's no wonder: every day as...

Surprise! People in small towns like to walk and ride bicycles nearly as much as people in cities do. That's the word from a report...

Once marked by underinvestment and criminal activity, few neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. have undergone as significant a redevelopment over the last decade as the historic Logan Circle neighborhood.

Affordable housing already exists near transit, but without action it will be lost.

A promising, billion-dollar Twin Cities light rail project almost bypassed lower-income neighborhoods on its route, but thanks to a coalition of community groups, it will now make all local stops.

Here’s some great news for a transit project happening in Minneapolis-St. Paul that has brought together transportation and equity advocates in not only creating...

Factoring in costs that tend to be lower in urban high-poverty neighborhoods, but not costs that tend to be higher there makes the H+T Index unsuitable as a tool for locating low-income housing.

The H+T Index should be used to site affordable housing, because it can identify which high-opportunity areas also are truly affordable in terms of transportation costs.

A range of existing policy tools can help preserve and expand affordable housing near planned transit stations -- but to have the most effect, they need to be put in place up front.

The Atlanta BeltLine brings much promise to the city of Atlanta, but will elevated housing costs be an unwelcome addition? Atlanta is looking to a community land trust to preserve affordability for the long-term near this new asset.