One of the things I forgot to write in my post on the individual mental health things one should do to endure a city is to embrace its warts and try to heal them. However, some warts are so bad, they might as well be cancerous. This is where you
By Kristen Jeffers
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The Quest for a Forever Home in an Era of Mass Gentrification
I’m on the quest to purchase my dream house, my forever home. Right now, that house is in Washington, DC and it’s one of the many row houses. It’s on a bus line or a flat street on which I can bike easily. Metro proximity is a bonus, but I’m
By Kristen Jeffers
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To Create a Perfect City
All it took in many cities for development in the old days was one man who bought up bunches of land and started building houses on it, which he turned around and put up for sale. One man. Probably white and already wealthy. Several plots of farmland. Land which used
Wait, That’s Really a House?
My dad and I used to talk about how he was going to make himself an office in his backyard shed. He’d made a good amount of money putting electricity in other people’s dutch barns and other iterations of storage sheds/backyard workshops. It was only a matter of time that
Could You Really Survive In Your Car By Choice?
When one thinks of living in a car, it’s usually because they have gone broke or they are trying to build up something and housing is not a reasonable expense. Think of the laid off corporate worker, the family who has lost their home to foreclosure or the wannabe Holywood
MORE: My 2014 Wishes for Good Places
Last year, my wish/new years resolution was to maintain. Overall, I think we succeeded in that. Downtown continues to grow. Even as beloved spaces elsewhere close, new ones spring right back up in their place, like a sushi bar right across the street from the bar I mentioned above. I’ve
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Placebook: Housing Standards, Art Coming Back to NYC and Economies of Fear
Good morning folks! I want to thank everyone again for the support, the shares and the opportunities of 2013. I wish you the best and look forward to us sharing more in 2014 . Look out for my 2014 wishes for good places this weekend and a very special surprise
Why Homeless and Homeless-Ally Suppression Has to Stop if We Want Good Places
An analysis of the recent decisions to prohibit the homeless and services to the homeless from operating.
