Urban Proxima

We can never go back

In search of lost places

Jun 23 • Jeff Fong

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BART Should Have Been a Real Estate Developer

Commuter rail has a business model, we just never used it

Jun 10 • Jeff Fong

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How Atlanta is trying a new model for below-market-rate housing

New policy, new institutions, and — hopefully — more new housing

Jun 3 • Jeff Fong

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May 2026

You should own stock in your city

A radical idea for turning city residents into city shareholders.

Published on The Elysian • May 29

The Progressive, YIMBY, Georgist running to represent Seattle

A conversation with Seattle's Ron Davis

May 11 • Jeff Fong and Ron Davis

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53:47

April 2026

How Charlotte convinced homeowners to build more housing

Literally in their own backyards

Apr 30 • Jeff Fong

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Why Affordability Isn't the Same as Falling Prices

A narrow argument about a specific claim

Apr 14 • Jeff Fong

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March 2026

How the Housing Crisis Is Fucking Up the Kids

Housing got expensive and the culture got weird

Mar 30 • Hanna Horvath

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How a city used land leasing to buy off the NIMBYs

Changing the players by changing the game

Mar 19 • Jeff Fong

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[Repost] The Line and why it's (still) bad

Urban form without urban function

Mar 4 • Jeff Fong

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February 2026

How we build housing is how we build the economy

Housing policy is economic strategy

Feb 16 • Jeff Fong

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Michael Tubbs wants California to build housing on public land

And make a profit off it, too

Feb 9 • Jeff Fong

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