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by CNT

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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by CNT

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.Read more

by Reconnecting America, Strategic Economics, CNT, Enterprise Community Partners, Center for Creative Land Recycling, Kim Burnett Consulting

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 with...Read more

by CNT + The Center for Housing Policy

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...Read more

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Project

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.

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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.

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topics: Climate, Energy, Housing

In 2005, our Wicker Park office was the second building in Chicago and the 13th in the U.S. to be certified LEED Platinum by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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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Publication

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...

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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.

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