/infrastructure/index.rss Read about affordable housing; access to transportation; roadways; bridges and tunnels; crumbling infrastructure; railroads; Amtrak; trucking; interstate highway system; science and technology; land use; en-us Copyright 2025 | casino world | All Rights Reserved Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Gabrielle Gurley Congestion pricing is surprisingly popular, even if Washington wants it gone. /infrastructure/transportation/2025-04-25-critics-love-it-new-york-congestion-pricing/ /infrastructure/transportation/2025-04-25-critics-love-it-new-york-congestion-pricing/ Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Gurley-Congestion pricing 042525.jpg Charles Guerin/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP Images Daniel Boguslaw Engineering problems have plagued the airplane manufacturer in recent years. /infrastructure/transportation/2025-04-04-faa-warns-boeing-787-radio-can-cut-off-air-traffic-control/ /infrastructure/transportation/2025-04-04-faa-warns-boeing-787-radio-can-cut-off-air-traffic-control/ Fri, 04 Apr 2025 09:10:00 -0000 Boguslaw-Boeing 040425.jpg Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via AP David Dayen In the 1980s, Wall Street vowed to make housing more affordable through deregulation of housing finance. The result was the 2008 crisis. /infrastructure/housing/2025-04-01-last-abundance-agenda/ /infrastructure/housing/2025-04-01-last-abundance-agenda/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:30:00 -0000 Dayen-Abundance 040125.jpg Jon Elswick/AP Photo Robin Urevich The termination of grants to dozens of fair housing organizations threatens enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. /infrastructure/housing/2025-03-13-trump-administration-cuts-funding-fair-housing-groups/ /infrastructure/housing/2025-03-13-trump-administration-cuts-funding-fair-housing-groups/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Cap and Main 031325.jpg Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP Images Ryan Cooper If the president wanted to cause airline disasters, it’s hard to imagine what he would have done differently. /infrastructure/transportation/2025-01-30-donald-trumps-second-term-american-airlines-crash/ /infrastructure/transportation/2025-01-30-donald-trumps-second-term-american-airlines-crash/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:30:00 -0000 Cooper-DCA crash 013025.jpg Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo Maureen Tkacik It’s 95 percent fake news, but the rise and fall of American aviation is also a powerful parable about the limits of what Percy Green called ‘tokenism.’ /infrastructure/transportation/2025-01-24-dei-theory-of-boeings-undoing/ /infrastructure/transportation/2025-01-24-dei-theory-of-boeings-undoing/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:10:00 -0000 Tkacik-Boeing 012425.jpg Ted S. Warren/AP Photo Mike Elk A two-year-old died in Section 8 housing in Pittsburgh, in one of over 130 federally subsidized properties owned by private equity firm Vitus. /infrastructure/housing/2025-01-23-child-death-private-equity-affordable-housing/ /infrastructure/housing/2025-01-23-child-death-private-equity-affordable-housing/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0000 Elk-Section 8 housing 012125.png CBS Pittsburgh Robert Kuttner The Los Angeles fires shine a light on the wretched excess of the very rich. /infrastructure/housing/2025-01-21-shlock-and-awe-la-fires-mansions/ /infrastructure/housing/2025-01-21-shlock-and-awe-la-fires-mansions/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:30:00 -0000 Kuttner-CA mansions 012125.jpg Ringo Chiu/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images Luke Goldstein Maureen Tkacik Luxury real estate brokers want Los Angeles to cancel a mansion tax for damaged homes so they can feed off them. /infrastructure/housing/2025-01-17-fire-sale-los-angeles-real-estate/ /infrastructure/housing/2025-01-17-fire-sale-los-angeles-real-estate/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:15:00 -0000 Goldstein-Tkacik-L.A. mansion tax 011725.jpg Sthanlee B. Mirador/Sipa USA via AP Images Ryan Cooper Unless Donald Trump gives the company lots of government subsidies, that is. /infrastructure/transportation/2025-01-03-tesla-is-cooked/ /infrastructure/transportation/2025-01-03-tesla-is-cooked/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:00:00 -0000 Cooper-Tesla 010325.jpg Phelan M. Ebenhack via AP Robert Kuttner It’s a good start, but it won’t produce true affordability. /infrastructure/housing/2024-12-17-solving-housing-crisis-more-than-yimby/ /infrastructure/housing/2024-12-17-solving-housing-crisis-more-than-yimby/ Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:00 -0000 Kuttner-Affordable housing 121724.jpg David Zalubowski/AP Photo David Dayen Robert Cruickshank Sulma Arias Ryan Cooper Tara Raghuveer Ruthy Gourevitch Paul Williams A symposium on how housing unaffordability happened and what can be done /infrastructure/housing/2024-12-11-tackling-the-housing-crisis/ /infrastructure/housing/2024-12-11-tackling-the-housing-crisis/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:30:00 -0000 HOUSING Dayen 121124 home.jpg Robert Cruickshank The Yes In My Backyard, or YIMBY, movement believes that solving the housing shortage entails removing impediments to adding supply. /infrastructure/housing/2024-12-11-make-it-legal-to-build/ /infrastructure/housing/2024-12-11-make-it-legal-to-build/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:20:00 -0000 HOUSING Cruickshank 121124.jpg Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP Sulma Arias Our housing crisis is not going away, and it demands a comprehensive solution with one goal in mind: safe and affordable homes for all. /infrastructure/housing/2024-12-11-why-we-need-homes-guarantee/ /infrastructure/housing/2024-12-11-why-we-need-homes-guarantee/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:15:00 -0000 HOUSING Arias 121124.jpg Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor Ryan Cooper A decade of depression in construction led to a concentrated, sclerotic industry. /infrastructure/housing/2024-12-11-housing-industry-never-recovered-great-recession/ /infrastructure/housing/2024-12-11-housing-industry-never-recovered-great-recession/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:10:00 -0000 HOUSING Cooper 121124.jpg David Zalubowski/AP Photo Tara Raghuveer Ruthy Gourevitch Those caught in the crossfire of corporate landlords and financial engineering need a regulatory agenda to protect them. /infrastructure/housing/2024-12-11-look-for-the-tenant-union/ /infrastructure/housing/2024-12-11-look-for-the-tenant-union/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:05:00 -0000 HOUSING Raghuveer-Gourevitch 121124.jpg Paul Williams Local housing agencies can use revolving funds to fill financing gaps for homes that are cleared to be built but don’t have the capital investment to get it done. /infrastructure/housing/2024-12-11-fimby-finance-in-my-backyard/ /infrastructure/housing/2024-12-11-fimby-finance-in-my-backyard/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:00:00 -0000 HOUSING Williams 121124.jpg Alan Lexa/AP Photo Gabrielle Gurley Whether the city has a functioning public transportation system may rest with Washington, or better yet, New Jersey. /infrastructure/transportation/2024-11-25-un-pausing-new-yorks-congestion-pricing/ /infrastructure/transportation/2024-11-25-un-pausing-new-yorks-congestion-pricing/ Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0000 Gurley-NYC congestion pricing 112524.jpg John Lamparski/Sipa USA via AP Images Rachael Dziaba Blue states are the hot spots for the country’s housing affordability crisis. /infrastructure/housing/2024-10-18-housing-blues/ /infrastructure/housing/2024-10-18-housing-blues/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:00:00 -0000 OCT24 SPECIAL Dziaba.jpg Gabrielle Gurley New York asks that question after officers shoot and wound an alleged fare evader. /infrastructure/transportation/2024-09-19-what-is-fare-evasion-equation/ /infrastructure/transportation/2024-09-19-what-is-fare-evasion-equation/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:00:00 -0000 Gurley-NYC subway 091924.jpg Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto via AP Toby Jaffe The plan isn’t focused entirely on YIMBY ideas, or rent-limiting ideas. /infrastructure/housing/2024-08-20-harris-affordable-housing-policy/ /infrastructure/housing/2024-08-20-harris-affordable-housing-policy/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:15:00 -0000 Jaffe-Housing costs 082024.jpg Lauren Justice/AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation Nicholas Slayton The governor of California proposes to solve the problem by harassing people in circles. /infrastructure/2024-08-02-gavin-newsom-homeless-sweeps/ /infrastructure/2024-08-02-gavin-newsom-homeless-sweeps/ Fri, 02 Aug 2024 09:30:00 -0000 California Homeless Governor's Directive Will Lester/The Orange County Register via AP Yunior Rivas Garcia The housing crisis puts the Costa-Hawkins Act under the microscope for the third time in six years. /infrastructure/housing/2024-07-15-california-voters-revisit-statewide-rent-control-law/ /infrastructure/housing/2024-07-15-california-voters-revisit-statewide-rent-control-law/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:15:00 -0000 Rivas Garcia-CA rent control 071524.jpg Lauren Justice/AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation Maureen Tkacik RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles. /infrastructure/housing/2024-06-18-how-algorithm-turned-apartment-pools-green/ /infrastructure/housing/2024-06-18-how-algorithm-turned-apartment-pools-green/ Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:30:00 -0000 Tkacik-Rental pricing 061824.jpg Illustration by Jandos Rothstein Gabrielle Gurley Gov. Kathy Hochul broke congestion pricing and now she owns it. /infrastructure/transportation/2024-06-13-political-nightmare-new-york-congestion-pricing/ /infrastructure/transportation/2024-06-13-political-nightmare-new-york-congestion-pricing/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:30:00 -0000 Gurley-NY congestion pricing 061324.jpg Anthony Behar/Sipa USA via AP Images David Dayen This is ultimately the biggest hurdle for affordable-housing policy. /infrastructure/housing/2024-06-07-homeowners-want-housing-prices-to-go-up/ /infrastructure/housing/2024-06-07-homeowners-want-housing-prices-to-go-up/ Fri, 07 Jun 2024 09:15:00 -0000 Dayen-Home prices 060724.jpg Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo Maureen Tkacik Millions of tenants are trapped in a rotten cycle of overflowing trash, daily water outages, and a healthy rat population. /infrastructure/housing/2024-05-22-hell-underwater-landlord/ /infrastructure/housing/2024-05-22-hell-underwater-landlord/ Wed, 22 May 2024 09:30:00 -0000 Tkacik-Arbor real estate 052224.jpg Maureen Tkacik The late whistleblower John Barnett described Boeing as a psychological torture chamber for anyone who cared about safety. A 2000 law makes fighting back nearly impossible. /infrastructure/transportation/2024-04-30-whistleblower-laws-protect-lawbreakers/ /infrastructure/transportation/2024-04-30-whistleblower-laws-protect-lawbreakers/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:30:00 -0000 Tkacik-Boeing 043024.jpg Gavin McIntyre/The Post And Courier via AP Mark Kreidler An ambitious pilot program provides a myriad of resources to help participants achieve financial independence through stable employment. /infrastructure/housing/2024-04-26-whole-person-approach-combating-homelessness/ /infrastructure/housing/2024-04-26-whole-person-approach-combating-homelessness/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:00:00 -0000 Cap and Main 042624.png Courtesy Long Beach City College David Dayen In a busy week for regulatory action, Pete Buttigieg’s emergence in fighting corporate power should not be overlooked. /infrastructure/transportation/2024-04-25-transportation-departments-new-path/ /infrastructure/transportation/2024-04-25-transportation-departments-new-path/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:15:00 -0000 Dayen-Buttigieg 042524.jpg David Zalubowski/AP Photo