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Home affordability in real-life context, top rankings, tunnel costs, a Portlander disagrees, renewable energy in Houston
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesThe small items are piling up faster than ever this year:The 4th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey 2008 - Ratings for Major Urban Markets has been released, and Houston again scores extremely well, with a median house price …
The Center For Houston’s Future convened a panel of national Urban Land Institute experts this week to look at Houston’s current situation and coming growth; and, surprisingly, they recommend we do more of what the Center For Houston’s Future does (vis…
More on the Houston ULI panel
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesContinuing from my last post on the CHF-ULI panel on Houston’s future, I’d like to cover some more details from the presentation. I’m going to avoid repeating a lot of the detail in their Powerpoint presentation, such as how the visioning process shou…
Intro from the land-use regulation forum
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesJust got back from the land-use forum at the GRB downtown. Overall I think it went pretty well. Good turnout too. Maybe 500+? I have a lot of notes I’ll try to boil down into my next post, along with links to the presentations when they put them up…
OK, I’ve finally got some time to pass along some of my notes and thoughts on the Tuesday night land-use forum. I already covered my introduction speech in the previous post. Unfortunately, the Powerpoint presentations do not seem to be posted yet, b…
Canada fights carpools, TX economy and housing holds up, smart grid, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesSome smaller misc items:This is the kind of government regulation run amok that drives me nuts, as Canada beats up on a web site that helps people carpool! I’ve always liked Canada as a country and enjoyed vacations there, although I’ve heard they’re …
A Pragmatic Approach to Houston’s Future (part 1 of 2)
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesLocal PBS has asked me to participate in a panel exploring Houston’s future - specifically regarding traffic, livability, and regional growth. The panel will be broadcast live at 7pm Thursday evening on local channel 8 PBS. They asked me to write an …
$50K In Houston Equals $123K in NYC, study finds
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesThis stat comes from a recent report from the Center for an Urban Future focused on the disappearing middle class in NYC. The Gothamist has a good blog post summarizing, including some nice graphs (#1 and #6 include Houston data). In the sixth graph,…
Houston a green capital? plus top rankings, reducing crime, and elevated busways
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesSome smaller items for your reading pleasure when escaping the relatives or shopping of Thanksgiving break (or work, if you’re stuck there this afternoon or Friday).IAH is the nation’s best big airport, according to the Daily Beast blog:”The Daily Beas…
Houston one of five cities that will rise in the new economy
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesThe Christian Science Monitor recently named Houston one of five cities that will rise in the new economy, along with Boston, Seattle, Huntsville-AL, and Fort Collins-CO. Not bad company. In fact, they open the main article with us:In Houston, the Te…