States are legalizing ADUs, cutting parking mandates, and changing zoning, but it's still difficult to estimate how much housing each of those reforms will actually produce. Carlee Alm-LaBar talks with Arnold Ventures housing director Stephanie Kestelman, The Turnout’s Grace Gordon, and Strong Towns executive director John Reuter about the Housing Data and T ... Show More
Oct 7
Can a Trolley Make People Want Transit?
A reliable bus is a big improvement, but Mobile is also looking at how appearance, comfort and the experience around the trip can make transit more appealing to people who have other options. The idea comes from “A Streetcar Named Spiro: Mobile Mayor Pushes Trolley-Filled Future, ... Show More
48m 12s
Sep 16
When Fixing Property Taxes Just Adds Another Tax
A New York condo sold for $238 million, but the city assessed it at just $15.5 million. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has framed his new pied-à-terre tax as a way to “tax the rich,” but a recent article by Ken Girardin, “The Sheer Absurdity of New York’s Pied-à-Terre Tax,” argues that the ... Show More
43m 21s
Mar 2023
On the Conservative Reaction to 15-Minute Cities
<p>We believe everyone can build a Strong Town, but all too often, <a href='https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/10/11/build-a-bridge'>political differences divide communities</a>, and instead of working together to build stronger neighborhoods from a bottom-up approach, we g ... Show More
56m 27s
Jun 2024
Money Talks: The NIMBY Catch-22
It’s Money Talks…live! This episode was taped at The Hewlett Foundation’s annual New Common Sense Conference, where Felix Salmon chatted with Jerusalem Demsas, who covers housing and infrastructure for The Atlantic. They discuss the NIMBY mentality, regulatory tangles holding bac ... Show More
37m 10s
Apr 2025
Driving tomorrow – Rethinking cities through mobility
What happens when mobility moves from being a support system to becoming the driving force shaping our cities, economies, and quality of life?
In this episode of inbold, Strategy& Principal Ritesh Verma sits down with Thomas Vonier, Architect and Senior Partner at Chesapeake Stra ... Show More
31m 55s