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Housing & Neighborhood Planning

Oct 03 2016

Washington Post
To End the Affordable Housing Crisis, Washington Needs to Legalize Main Street

In the Media
Sep 27 2016

What We’re Reading: Obama Calls On Cities to Rethink Zoning

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Sep 21 2016

The American Conservative
Why Sprawl Is Not the Only Choice

In the Media
Sep 15 2016

What If We All Enjoyed A Fair Chance to Be Healthy?

by Ben Oldenburg

RPA Lab
Sep 14 2016

What Does the NY Region Need?

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Sep 10 2016

Revisiting the Post-9/11 Vision for Lower Manhattan

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Sep 01 2016

TBT: Robert Moses’s Brooklyn-Battery Bridge

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 30 2016

NYC Job Growth Further Proof of Economic Transformation

by Christopher Jones

RPA Lab
Aug 29 2016

Can Microunits Help Alleviate the Housing Shortage?

by Moses Gates

RPA Lab
Aug 24 2016

Calling All Urban Planning Poets

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 18 2016

More Than 1.8 Million Homes at Risk of Permanent Flooding

by Robert Freudenberg

RPA Lab
Aug 11 2016

Curbed NY
East Harlem’s Affordable Housing Stock May Be In Jeopardy

In the Media
Aug 11 2016

TBT: What to Do About Crowding in NYC, Circa 1932

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 08 2016

Architects Newspaper
East Harlem Set to Lose 25 Percent of Affordable Housing Stock, Regional Plan Association Says

In the Media
Aug 08 2016

Data Geek: Comparing the Smaller Cities in the Hudson Valley

by Kate Slevin

RPA Lab
Aug 05 2016

Report: One-Fourth of East Harlem Units Could Lose Affordability Restrictions by 2040

by Pierina Ana Sanchez

RPA Lab
Aug 03 2016

Urban Planning, in Verse

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 01 2016

Serpas: Segregation, and Its Solutions, Are Best Understood Regionally

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Jul 31 2016

City Limits
For Low-Income People of Color in NYC, Segregation Is a Regional Problem

In the Media
Jul 28 2016

Celebrating 100 Years of Zoning

by Ann Regan

RPA Lab
Jul 26 2016

What We’re Reading: De Blasio Ahead of Schedule on Housing Goals

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Jul 20 2016

Walkability for Whom?

by Moses Gates

RPA Lab
Jul 18 2016

Wiley: ‘…We are building on top of a discriminatory infrastructure’

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Jul 13 2016

Pokémon Go: Making Healthy Living & Urban Exploration Fun

by Mandu Sen

RPA Lab
Jul 12 2016

Gates: Raising the Roof in NYC Can Help Fix Housing Shortage

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Jul 12 2016

Regional Roundup: Electeds Camp Out for Bushwick Inlet Park

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Jul 11 2016

Crain's New York Business
Remove the Zoning Cap and Increase Housing Density

In the Media
Jul 11 2016

Report: How Urban Planning Shapes Health

by Mandu Sen

RPA Lab
Jul 05 2016

Regional Roundup: NY Nuclear Struggles Threaten Clean Power Goals

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Jul 01 2016

Improving Urban Open Space Goes Beyond Public Parks

by Moses Gates

RPA Lab
Jun 28 2016

New York State Legislative Recap: Little Progress on Housing, Transportation

by Kate Slevin

RPA Lab
Jun 28 2016

Regional Roundup: CT Infrastructure Woes

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Jun 24 2016

How We’re Creating the Fourth Plan

by Juliette Michaelson

RPA Lab
Jun 21 2016

Regional Roundup: Albany Approves Restrictions on Short-Term Airbnb Rentals in NYC

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Jun 07 2016

NJTV News
RPA President Outlines Area Challenges

In the Media
Jun 01 2016

Why the New York Region Needs to Change Course

by Wendy Pollack

RPA Lab
May 31 2016

Regional Roundup: First Hudson Yards Tower Opens

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
May 30 2016

City Limits
Which Neighborhoods Will de Blasio’s Rezonings Target Next?

In the Media
May 16 2016

RPA Unveils Preliminary Plan Proposals at Assembly

by Wendy Pollack

RPA Lab
May 05 2016

Politico New York
Weisbrod: NYC Can’t Solve Housing Affordability Crisis on Its Own

In the Media
May 05 2016

The Real Deal
As a Paragon of Density, 432 Park Falls Short: RPA

In the Media
May 01 2016

City Limits
Affordable Housing: How Low Can de Blasio Go?

In the Media
Mar 30 2016

Testimony: NYC’s Pedestrian Plazas

by Kate Slevin

RPA Lab
Mar 30 2016

TBT: Proposed Pedestrianization of Times Square, 1969

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Mar 29 2016

Op-Ed: Here’s How Towns and Villages Can Fix Long Island’s Critical Housing Shortage

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Mar 27 2016

Long Island Press
Here’s How Towns and Villages Can Fix Long Island’s Critical Housing Shortage

In the Media
Mar 23 2016

What the Housing Plan Means for New York

by Moses Gates

RPA Lab
Mar 17 2016

The Hill
Outdated Federal Housing Rules Hold Back Building of Walkable Communities

In the Media
Feb 29 2016

Keystone Crossroads
The Federal Rule Holding Back Neighborhood-scale Mixed-use Buildings

In the Media
Feb 25 2016

Curbed
Why Don’t We Have More Walkable Cities

In the Media