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A Call to Action for Land Use Planners Something is wrong with planning. No, it’s not the lack of permissibility in planning law. No, it’s not the amount of documentation that we have to read. No, you might be shocked to find out that it’s not even cars that are the main problem — if anything, the discourse about transportation, walkability, and urban…

[EDITOR’S NOTE: the following are the thoughts of only me, Ryan Black, and not any of the original Medium letter’s other authors + signers] On Monday, April 27th Brookline by Design responded to “Why Progressives Should Be Wary of Brookline By Design,” a letter signed by over sixty progressives in…

Nimbyism is killing opportunities for younger folks. Here’s how we could fix it. — College is a lubricant of social mobility, a vaccine against a creeping caste system, and a key that unlocks the American dream. Yet over the past 40 years, it’s become more difficult to access and more expensive, staying more the “same” (i.e., stale) than nearly any offering. …

Taking a break from the bad news elsewhere . . . Berkeley’s making national headlines again. The state courts have ordered the University of California, whose campus occupies 600 acres in the heart of town and another 600 in the hills, to reduce next fall’s incoming class by nearly three…

This Mindset Is Harmful to the Poor — The Start The Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) movement has been more of a modern phenomenon. The term was coined in the late 1970s. It started out as a movement against development that would disproportionately affect working-class and middle-class families. …

I work at Tompkins County Prevention Point (TCPP), Ithaca’s syringe exchange program operated by the Southern Tier AIDS Program. One morning last summer, I checked in with some of our unhoused participants who had been living on our porch with their belongings. As I was about to head inside, an…

Instead of a tax on all manner of things we perceived as ‘wrong’ in housing, why don’t we tax anti-housing campaigners and their ilk? If you are into housing you know what ‘NIMBY’ means, if you are a regular person it’s hit and miss and chances you don’t know what…