Strengthening Transit Through Community Partnerships
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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Topic: Housing
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topics: Housing
The traditional view of housing affordability is 30 percent of income. Under this view, an astonishing three out of four U.S. neighborhoods are considered “affordable” to the typical household. However, we recognized that this benchmark failed to account for transportation costs, which are...
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topics: Housing, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation
We pioneered the Location Efficient Mortgage, a revolutionary financing tool that recognized and accounted for the savings available to people who live in location-efficient communities.
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topics: Climate, Housing, Transportation
Our research helped make the case that building affordable housing near transit can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.
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topics: Climate, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Housing, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation, Water
EcoDistricts are the cutting edge of sustainability solutions that use a district scale to achieve greater impact. They link energy, transportation, water, and land use in an integrated, efficient resource system.
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Policy, Transportation
Priority Development Areas offer a targeted strategy for capitalizing on existing assets, like transit stations and walkable downtowns, to foster sustainable economic development.
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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.
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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...