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Michael Anderson

Portland
As seen in: Sightline Institute, Medium, MLB (Major League Baseball), Realtor.com, SBS, Nieman Lab, Isles Fix, The Tyee, WBBH-TV (Fort Myers, FL), The Journal Record, High Plains Journal and
Believer, skeptic, humanist, typist & dad. Trying to make places fairer as director of cities + towns for @Sightline. Views here: mine, all mine.
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racial equity Archives

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By Michael Anderson, Daniel Wilson
| misryoum.com
Mamdani Courts New York’s Every Problem, Even Racism and Cost On the morning of Zohran Mamdani’s 96th day as mayor of New York, he ceremonially shoveled the city’s 100,000th pothole… • What does it take to confront a city’s past? Racial equity has become the driving term in a new debate… • What does it actually cost to live in New York, and who pays the price? That question sits at the…
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Oregon’s New Path to Inclusionary Housing: Fully Funded and Flexible

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By Michael Andersen, Michael Anderson
| Sightline Institute
Oregon’s legislature passed a bill that modernizes the state’s “inclusionary zoning” statute by giving Portland-area cities more flexibility in how they design affordability mandates for new buildings, but only if they offset those costs. Unfunded inclusionary zoning mandates block new homes until after prices rise, putting an invisible tax on tenants in older buildings. SB 1521 would ban this.
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Video: Fixing North America’s Big Elevator Problem

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By Michael Andersen, Michael Anderson
| Sightline Institute
A new video by Vancouver-based documentarians About Here explains why the United States and Canada have the fewest elevators among rich countries: elevators here cost three to four times more. Because elevators make taller buildings pleasant to live in, this is a big barrier to building more walkable, accessible, transit-rich, and age-friendly cities.
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