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At the heart of N.Y. Long Island's Suffolk County, new Brookhaven town supervisor Dan Panico wants to remove processing steps, such as at the planning board, from new housing development. This is a first step toward significant new supply in one of America's tightest exurban markets. See: https://timwferguson.com/2024/01/11/long-island-supe-wants-to-build/

How has the mosaic of European politics been recast by the relentless waves of immigration? This pressing question takes center stage as Ambassador Ron Spogli and deputy editor Fraser Myers join me to unravel the complex tapestry of populism's ascent in the West. With the spotlight on Georgia Maloney's prime ministerial triumph in Italy, we peel back the layers of public sentiment that propelled her to power. The narrative reveals a populace not driven by xenophobia but by a fervent desire for reform and sovereignty over their borders, a sentiment echoing across the continent from France to Sweden.

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Archive of reports by the Center for Opportunity Urbanism and the Urban Reform Institute.

2023

Demographia International Housing Affordability 2023

Demographia U.S. Housing Affordability 2023

Building the New America

The Future of Appalachia

2022

The Last Utopia: The 15-Minute City

Exurbia Rising

The Next American Cities

Demographia International Housing Affordability 2022

Demographia U.S. Housing Affordability 2022

2021

Demographia International Housing Affordability 2021

Demographia U.S. Housing Affordability 2021

2020

How Urban Planning Caused the Housing Crisis

Beyond Feudalism

URI Standard of Living Index - 2020

A Policy of Delusion and Misdirection: Rethinking California's New Planning Regime

2019

Beyond Gentrification

2018

The Millennial Dilemma: A Generation Searches for Home

Localism in America

Perspectives on Defining the American Heartland

Houston Resilient

COU Standard of Living Index - 2018

2017

The Great Train Robbery

MaX Report

Hurricane Harvey

Job-Creating Transportation Infrastructure

Fading Promise

New American Heartland

COU Standard of Living Index - 2017

2016

America's Housing Crisis

Best Cities for Minorities

Restoring Localism

Putting People First

COU Standard of Living Index

The Cost of Not Housing

The Texas Way of Urbanism

2015

Maximizing Opportunity Urbanism with Robin Hood Planning

Golden Opportunity Lost: Can It Happen Here?

Core and Suburban Growth in Cities of Western Europe, 1971-2011

2014

America's Opportunity City

Opportunity Urbanism 2014

2012

California Getting In Its Own Way

2007

Opportunity Urbanism

Inequality in Megacities

Opportunity Urbanism Policy Framework

2005

The New Suburbanism

Education, the cornerstone of our future, teeters on a precipice of change. Former California State Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero and retired superintendent Mike Christensen join us to dissect the intricate web of challenges plaguing California's schools—from the scapegoating of teachers and the undervaluation of family engagement to the contentious rise of charter schools and the debate over the high school exit exam. Their expertise illuminates the tangled tapestry of responsibility and reform needed to empower educators, involve parents, and ultimately, shape our children's destiny.

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Students work with the Center’s director and engage in research that will serve them well as they look to develop their careers in business, the social sciences, and the arts. Students also have access to our advisory board, which includes distinguished Chapman faculty and major demographic scholars from across the country and the world.

For additional information, please contact Mahnaz Asghari, sponsored project analyst for the Office of Research, at (714) 744-7635 or asghari@chapman.edu.

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Long Island’s town of Southampton covers 295 square miles including a varied range of communities, some quite different from the village of Southampton that is familiar to seasonal visitors. One hamlet, called Riverside, is a pocket of relative distress, greatly Black and Latino-immigrant. It sits on the south side of the Peconic River, separating it from the more familiar Riverhead on the other side.

Sometimes Hamptonites lump the two together, though Riverhead is not part of Southampton town. That distinction has come to the fore as Southampton moves to bring development to Riverside—the first major such effort since Suffolk County opened a sheriff’s station, courthouse and jail there decades ago. Riverside has what so many East End communities say they need—“affordable” housing—and the town wants more of it there so as to contain the daily traffic throng to the Hamptons from points west (part of which, ironically, funnels through Riverside).

To do that it needs, among other investments, a big sewer plant. All well and good, but it turns out, as this latest useful report from the East End Beacon explains, this is not so welcome in Riverhead. There’s lots of news nowadays in these parts—the bridge between the affluent and preservationist South and North Forks of Long Island—and any transitions will merit further attention.