The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The gap between median rental prices and incomes is shrinking in the US, but still falls short of affordability.

February 12 - Redfin

A proposed bill would require landlords who don’t renew leases to provide a reason, helping prevent capricious retaliation against tenants while still holding tenants who don’t obey the terms of their lease responsible.

February 12 - Greater Greater Washington

President Trump is attempting to make good on a campaign promise to kill New York City’s congestion pricing program, but the mechanism for ending it remains unclear.

February 12 - Smart Cities Dive

Landlords who raise rents sharply after disasters could face fines of up to $50,000.

February 11 - Los Angeles Times

Research into accessibility, transit equity, and traffic safety is losing federal funding at an alarming rate.

February 11 - Streetsblog USA

Decades of restoration efforts are yielding positive results as dozens of species of fish return to the once-polluted waterway.

February 11 - Reasons to Be Cheerful

The Tesla Cybertruck was recalled seven times last year.

February 11 - Mother Jones

A proposed law would require delivery companies to acquire insurance, permits, and submit monthly reports to the city.

February 11 - Streetsblog Massachusetts

Gov. Hochul announced the investment just as a federal program for EV charging infrastructure was halted by administration officials.

February 11 - Wins Newsroom

William Fulton provides a personal perspective on Prof. Shoup's life and work: “His mission was to help people understand the underlying economics of public goods and services. Parking was simply the vehicle, one might say, that he chose to do so.”

February 11 - California Planning & Development Report

Across the country, a median of 12.5 percent of workers continue to perform their jobs remotely.

February 10 - The Herald Sun

The Tri-Rail service connects Miami to Broward and Palm Beach counties.

February 10 - Progressive Railroading

Despite initial skepticism about its true potential for sustainable urbanism, the built-from-scratch “car-free neighborhood” is widely popular with its residents.

February 10 - Dwell

A UCLA study reveals that language barriers left many Asian residents in Los Angeles County without critical wildfire evacuation and recovery information, highlighting the need for more inclusive emergency communication strategies.

February 10 - Los Angeles Times

Churches and religious institutions around the country are calling for zoning reforms that would allow them to build housing on their underused properties.

February 10 - The Colorado Sun

Urbanists are mourning the loss of a dynamic voice for parking reform and walkable cities.

February 10 - StreetsBlog NYC

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The latest test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress suggests that student learning has not recovered from its COVID-era decline. Is this more true for urban school districts than for the rest of the United States?

February 10 - Michael Lewyn

The community has higher Black homeownership rates than most of Los Angeles, but now faces an uncertain future as residents struggle to rebuild.

February 9 - The Guardian

A team of researchers is developing a dataset to fill a critical gap in self-driving cars’ learning models.

February 9 - University of Maryland

The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program planned to fund the construction of hundreds of EV charging stations across the country.

February 9 - Wired