As storms become increasingly destructive, homes and businesses face a heightened risk of urban flooding, even when they aren’t located in formally designated floodplains. CNT’s RainReady program offers innovative, cost-effective solutions to keep properties dry and help communities stay resilient...Read more
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topics: Climate, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Flooding, Water
By managing stormwater on-site with plants, trees, and grasses, green infrastructure provides a suite of cost-effective ecological and quality of life benefits not associated with conventional stormwater infrastructure.
Tool
topics: Data Analysis, Housing, Parking Utilization, Transportation
The King County Right Size Parking Calculator provides estimated parking/unit ratios for multi-family developments throughout urban areas of Seattle’s county.
Project
topics: Housing
Before the internet, collecting community data on housing and building conditions was an arduous task. Our Neighborhood Early Warning System (NEWS) changed all that.
Publication
topics: Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Flooding, Water
As storms become increasingly destructive, homes and businesses face a heightened risk of urban flooding, even when they aren’t located in formally designated floodplains. CNT’s RainReady program offers innovative, cost-effective solutions to keep properties dry and help communities stay resilient...
Tool
topics: Housing, Transportation
The National Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Database is a tool that provides economic and demographic information for every existing and proposed fixed guideway transit station in the U.S.
Tool
topics: Data Analysis, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Parking Utilization, Transportation
The GreenTRIP Parking Database helps planners and developers in the San Francisco Bay Area quantify parking usage and the costs of unused parking spaces.
Publication
topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Transportation
The Chicago region's hub-and-spoke transit system leaves many people stranded in the gaps. About 10% of Cook County's residents live in transit deserts, leaving them with restricted mobility and limited access to all of the region's jobs and amenities.
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topics: Cargo-Oriented Development, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Sustainable Communities Initiative offered support for sustainable development projects in cities and regions across the country. Grantees received access to capacity-building resources, including CNT’s team of technical experts, to help...
Publication
topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Transportation
Report draws the latest five-year data from the American Communities Survey and finds that for the average family in the 25 largest U.S. metro areas, any income gains made in the last decade have been erased—and then some—by the skyrocketing cost burden of housing and transportation combined.