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BCP UPDATE
Newsworthy insights for local leaders. Lessons from Canada, small towns and market rate housing.
* Oh Canada! US cities can learn something from Canada's effort to lure workers downtown?
* Parking reform: Small towns are leading the way on removing mandates.
* Housing: Cities do not need to build affordable housing in order to make housing affordable.
* For laughs: A short parody video that is all too familair!
Return-to-office mandates may not be the solution to downtown struggles that Canadian cities are banking on
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Instead of trying to force unwilling workers back to the office, Canadian cities should instead focus on developing downtowns that people genuinely want to visit and experience.
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While large cities like San Jose, California, and Austin, Texas, garner national press coverage for eliminating parking mandates, this policy reform is most commonly enacted in towns
with fewer than 25,000 residents.
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Study: Market rate housing developments help lower housing costs <https://outreach2.better-cities.org/index.php/campaigns/ag471gpt08b35/track-url/ja081w00wb76b/b29d0edefd48fb8f752fe5d0dd350447358faf6
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Instead of driving up rents and pushing people out—an all-too-common fear—the influx of new housing helps to ease financial pressure on existing tenants by lowering rent prices and curbing
the forces of gentrification.
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Parody: People from up and coming cities <https://outreach2.better-cities.org/index.php/campaigns/ag471gpt08b35/track-url/ja081w00wb76b/b29d0edefd48fb8f752fe5d0dd350447358faf69>
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Haven't we all been involved in some sort of marketing like this?
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