Parking mandates impose a hidden "tax" on new housing, driving up costs and limiting affordability. A new analysis by MapCraft reveals how parking mandates widen the gap between construction costs and what median-income households can afford. Even reducing parking requirements from two stalls per unit to zero can slash needed subsidies by hundreds of dollars, freeing up funds to build more homes. Dive into the data to see how parking reform could unlock affordable housing in your city.| Parking Reform Network
I will be serving as administrative support for Tony and the PRN staff, in order to help keep everything running smoothly and, more importantly, to allow you all more time to focus on your primary passions, functions and allow you each to make an even larger impact than before I arrived.| Parking Reform Network
We’ve compiled a list of six must-read books that will engage you with the diverse audiences and the intersecting issues that touch all aspects of parking reform.| Parking Reform Network
In Spokane, we didn’t eliminate parking mandates all at once but incrementally over different policy proposals over a couple of years. We went about this in a bipartisan way by building a coalition around common goals such as reducing the price of housing. Our efforts included a diverse range of housing interest groups including housing builders and low-income housing groups who are often pitted against each other but were able to find common ground on this policy change.| Parking Reform Network
In honor of our president, Tony Jordan, being selected as one of the Grist 50 climate leaders for 2024, we’re highlighting the various ways that parking reform is a keystone of climate action.| Parking Reform Network
My conversation with PRN President Tony Jordan last December was pivotal in addressing my master's thesis research question: How do the factors observed in individual municipalities support and/or explain observed patterns of widespread reform adoption? My study, which combines quantitative data and interviews with city officials and advocates, reveals the diverse motivations and challenges behind these reforms.| Parking Reform Network
Washington state recently enacted one of the most ambitious parking reforms. A coalition of 56+ organizations helped make SB 5184 a reality.| Parking Reform Network
The Dallas City Plan Commission got to work fleshing out a parking reform proposal while other officials passed a resolution supporting DART.| CandysDirt.com