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Jeff Wood is a city planner and host of the Talking Headways podcast. Sign up for a free trial of our daily newsletter at our site http://theoverheadwire.com

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At The Overhead Wire Daily, I discuss thinking about transportation and housing using the biospychosocial model - https://bit.ly/3ytgAlQ I'll thread it below...

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The philanthropic wing of America’s largest Medicaid insurer has pledged $1B towards affordable housing by offering below market loans to a development partner. As noted in the Forbes article, 80% of health outcomes are driven by what happens outside the doctors office and are often referred to as the social determinants of health. https://yhoo.it/44YWXOQ

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Monday's Most Read # 1 - Favicon for darrellowens.substack.com
How Urban Renewal Ruined Everything https://bit.ly/3wwB2BT The Discourse Lounge

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From The Overhead Wire Daily - May 15, 2024

I’ve always been a fan of the census since I started using data in college for GIS projects. While not perfect, it allowed more people to tell more in depth stories about places that really wasn’t available before without a ton of time and patience with a physical map.

That said, the Census Bureau could be in the wrong when it comes to counting population in legacy industrial cities in the Midwestern United States. The City of Detroit in particular (https://bit.ly/3WGB2d9) is alleging that the census counting methodology in non decennial years subtracts population when homes are demolished which would undercount population as many of the demolished homes have sat empty for years. Additionally, dilapidated homes that are renovated and re-occupied (as seen on popular HGTV shows like Bargain Block) don’t count towards adding population either. There are other issues with the methodology but this undercount could have wide ranging impacts on not just on federal (...)

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funding opportunities but also narratives.

I hadn’t thought about it much before but the stories we tell ourselves or that are told about places can often form into narratives if they are repeated long enough and sometimes they start to sink in and impact a place over the long term. And if Detroit isn’t really shrinking and instead has been adding population, that changes the discussions of a place and how its perceived by potential businesses and residents. Here in San Francisco we know all about narratives.

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But these narratives on the other side of the growth coin can be self fulfilling in other bad ways. A recent MPO vote to allocate $4B to a highway expansion in Austin shows how a narrative about growth and what is needed to supply it can become unchallengable. The only solution to many suburban and county officials is to build a bigger road rather than think deeper about growth and it’s impacts on quality of life and public health. While we really need to have a discussion about who represents regional interests, we might also benefit from talking through the narratives and actions that got us there in the first place.

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Would you all want to see the intro posts from my newsletter here? They are a little bit more long form but I've been wondering where else to post them as I feel like people outside the newsletter might be interested in the discussions they may or may not start.

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@capntransit it’s true though people don’t click through to blogs much these days.

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Tuesday's Most Read # 3 - Jane Jacobs, Cyclist - https://bit.ly/4bDhbQ2 Common Edge

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Monday's Most Read # 3 - Is this 661-square-foot home the future of housing? https://bit.ly/3JZXypS Fast Company

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Wednesday's Most Read # 3 - ADUs could expand the affordable housing toolkit—if local governments can work through some growing pains
https://bit.ly/3JFyqUT Brookings

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Tuesday's Most Read # 2 - "It's like two mortgages" - Why rapidly rising insurance costs are making some mortgages potentially toxic for our entire financial system, and what to do about it https://bit.ly/3Wk8ANJ Moving Day

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Tuesday's Most Read # 3 - Architects transformed these rundown motels into vibrant homes for formerly unhoused families https://bit.ly/4bh6J0I Fast Company

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Tuesday's Most Read # 3 - Colorado Democrats advance bill requiring 'density goals' for urban governments https://bit.ly/4aQ0p0p Colorado Politics

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Monday's Most Read # 1 - What Happens After a Highway Dies https://bloom.bg/49ALB4a Bloomberg CityLab

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Tuesday's Most Read # 2 - The Towns Outsmarting Airbnb https://bit.ly/3VUUz99 Reasons to be Cheerful

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@capntransit Yeah I didn't see any reason for the name call. I find that blocking or moving on is the best way to deal with it.

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@Iragersh @capntransit They have to tell the city that they are using it as an AirBnB. If they didn't it was likely illegal.

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@capntransit @Iragersh Ha, yes. I guess I've been on both sides of that one.

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Monday's Most Read # 1 - How The Small Car Died In America https://bit.ly/4aCVmjo Autopian

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Monday's Most Read # 3 - America's magical thinking on housing - https://bit.ly/3IPc4ju The Atlantic

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Monday's Most Read # 3 - The Designer Who’s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge - http://bit.ly/3PlBnxq Wired Magazine

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Tuesday's Most Read #2 - Is the rent killing sex? Http://bit.ly/3TdH5Ue @IDoTheThinking

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Monday's Most Read #3 - Study shows why bike lane projects are controversial and what cities can do to make it easier http://bit.ly/3Vb9Ouv @momentummagazine

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