What's the Housing Crisis Beneath the Housing Crisis?
Lars Doucet digs into a problem that shows up in expensive cities, sprawling suburbs, and even countries Americans often point to as models:...
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20 of 606 episodesRethinking the Federal Role in Transportation
Beth Osborne has watched the same story play out five times: a new federal transportation bill arrives with big language about goals and acc...
Illinois Housing Reform Gets Practical
Illinois is short roughly 130,000 homes today and needs about 240,000 more by 2030. The state can’t change mortgage rates or material costs,...
The Neighborhood Outside the Church Doors
A trip to Italy left Chuck surprised by how ordinary Catholic life felt in a country filled with churches. A later visit to Hasidic Brooklyn...
A Congressman Makes the Case for Local Power
Congressman Jake Auchincloss joins the the Strong Towns podcast with a case for localism that takes it seriously without treating it as a cu...
Why Manchester’s Boom Isn’t the Whole Story
Is a city “dynamic” just because its charts point up and to the right? Chuck uses a week in the UK to question that assumption. In Mancheste...
How Inner City Highways Bankrupt Downtowns And How We Rebuild
When planner Patrick Kennedy started asking why prime land near downtown Dallas was filled with parking lots and boarded‑up buildings, the t...
New Zealand Keynote Planning In A World Of Limits
Speaking to planners in New Zealand, Chuck Marohn connects the country’s adopted infrastructure plan with a global pattern of cities that ha...
Why Persuasion Fails When You Lead With Data
Good arguments fail when they ignore how people feel. Chuck Marohn and Joshua Bandoch talk through using empathy, ethical persuasion, and va...
Why Messy Cities Depend On People Who Take Action
Chuck and Kevin Klinkenberg explore why progress comes from people who stop waiting for permission and start doing things locally. They look...
Gas Taxes, Freeways, And What Washington Should Fund Now
Chuck Marohn and Tony Dutzik unpack the messy history of the gas tax, cross‑subsidies between states, and the moral story drivers were told...
Balancing Big Experiments And Neighborhood Fixes In California Housing
In this moderated panel at the REACH Ideas + Action Summit, Chuck Marohn and California Forever’s Jim Wunderman tackle California’s housing...
Why Infrastructure Maintenance Might Be The Real Megaproject
New Zealand’s infrastructure commission added up every sector’s project wish‑list—and found a bill voters could never realistically pay. In...
From Service Cuts To Understanding City Insolvency
The conversation follows Michel Durand-Wood's path from noticing small local cuts—closed pools, rising taxes—to understanding his city as st...
Beyond Supply and Demand to Housing’s Unseen Financial Forces
Chuck walks through three ways of seeing the housing crisis: supply, demand, and the Strong Towns view that grapples with “dark finance” and...
What Comes After the Interstate Era? | New Report
For years, the dominant explanation for America’s infrastructure problems has been that we haven’t invested enough. Yet federal spending on...
Humility Versus Hubris in American Urbanism
Why 95% of planners get it wrong, how monetary policy killed Main Street, and why Chuck Marohn is optimistic about Gen Z. This wide-ranging...
Where the Strong Towns Movement Is Headed in 2026
In this year’s State of Strong Towns address, Chuck Marohn reflects on where the movement stands at the start of 2026 — what’s changed, what...
The Hidden Costs of "Improving" This Minnesota Highway
A major highway project is pitched as a safety upgrade — but at what cost to the community? Today, Chuck is joined by Matt Steele, a fellow...
How Communities Are Breaking Out of the Housing Trap
Why is housing so expensive, and what can local communities actually do about it? In this live recording, Chuck unpacks the roots of America...