by Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-New York City) In 1890, Jacob Riis’ groundbreaking book How the Other Half Lives chronicled the lives of thousands of families living in squalor in New York City. A horrified public cried out for reform, and the…
by Victor Bach and Sara Hovde In New York City, public housing tenants stopped a privatization proposal in an unprecedented mobilization effort. But without continuing vigilance and technical support, public housing tenants will find themselves left out of decisions that…
by Tom Angotti A Response to Timothy Ross It’s not the housing, Mr. Ross, it’s the people. They don’t care what kind of housing poor people live in. They just don’t like them if they’re poor and not white. If…
by Jacqueline Leavitt In New Zealand, there is no nonprofit third sector between public housing and the market. Tenants are organizing to keep rents down, limit privatization and create new “third-stream” alternatives. The Labour Party: The Unlikely Handmaiden In 1984,…
By Timothy Ross Progressives face a dilemma in thinking about public housing. Many progressives support public housing because it helps low income people who are otherwise disadvantaged in a capitalist economy. Indeed, over a million people live in public housing…
Column The Seventh Generation: GOP Aims to Shut Out Poor by Rep. Nydia Velazquez Feature Public Housing Tenants Confront Degegulation Strengthening Resident Capacity in New York City by Victor Bach and Sara Hovde Lessons from New Zealand by Jacqueline Leavitt…
Asphalt Nation How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back by Jane Holtz Kay New York: Random House, 1997.US $32.95 Review by James Miraglia Imagine if 120 or so people died in a horrendous plane…
by Patricia Nolan In 1993, St. Louis launched its 18-mile regional light rail system, named MetroLink, which has since become a tremendous success. MetroLink’s 31-vehicle fleet transports as many as 100,000 people per day to and from all of the…
by John Anner “What this fight is really about,” James Morris says suddenly, in the middle of a discussion about transportation policy in Milwaukee, “is a city-versus-suburb thing. What the central city needs and what the suburbs want are two…
by Lisa Schreibman Federal rules require public involvement in transportation planning. So far, it looks like we have another participation game and the big decisions are still made in a closet. The 1991 amendments to the federal surface transportation program,…
Eight Myths of Traffic Planning by Roger Baker A growing number of planning experts realize that current trends in transportation are unsustainable. Like an addictive drug, a transportation policy oriented around the private automobile dictates urban policies in a way…
by Jon Orcutt The transportation system most South Africans face today is a mixture of patched-up, third-rate public transport inherited from apartheid and a chaotic, unregulated minibus-taxi system that is a source of swelling public complaint. But political transformation in…
The Seventh Generation by Thomas Angotti On Saturday, July 12th of this year, I was performing my daily jogging ritual in Prospect Park, Brooklyn’s great green space, when I came across a biker laid out on the park roadway. She…
Column The Seventh Generation by Thomas Angotti Feature Transportation Struggles in the Post-Apartheid City by Jon Orcutt Eight Myths of Traffic Planning by Roger Baker Are We There Yet? Is There REAL Public Participation Under ISTEA? by Lisa Schreibman Making…