Publication Library

Publication Library

Beltway Burden: The Combined Cost of Housing and Transportation in the Greater Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area

by Urban Land Institute, Center for Housing Policy, CNT
February, 2009

This report provides a comprehensive examination of the cost of place in the Washington, DC, region, presenting a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction look at the combined housing and transportation cost burdens for households in the metropolitan area. Drawing on the latest research and...Read more

Downloadable PDF:
PDF icon CNT_BeltwayBurdenCombinedCostofH+T.pdf

Topics:
Housing, Transportation

 

Estimating Transportation Costs by Characteristics of Neighborhood and Household

Peter Haas, Carrie Makarewicz, Albert Benedict, and Scott Bernstein
January, 2009

Since information on U. S. household expenditures was first collected, transport expenditures have risen from the sixth-highest share of household budgets, less than 2%, in 1917 to the second-highest share since the 1970s. This rise is linked to increased automobile...Read more

Topics:
Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Transportation

 

Creating a Chicago Regional Building Energy Efficiency System

Mary O’Connell (ed.)
January, 2009

The Chicago area’s homes and offices must be brought up to 21st century standards for energy efficiency, both to save money and to reduce climate‐altering green house gas emissions. Federal money available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)...Read more

Downloadable PDF:
PDF icon Creating-a-Chicago-Regional-Building-Energy-Efficiency-System.pdf

Topics:
Climate, Energy, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Sustainable Economic Development

 

Sustainable Prosperity: Decreasing Household Expenses and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

by CNT, Steve Perkins, Ph.D., and Joe Grant
December, 2008

This policy paper makes the case for mandating the inclusion of expense reduction and sustainable living education into a range of federal initiatives, and concludes with recommendations to enhance pending green initiatives by linking them to financial education programming focused...Read more

Downloadable PDF:
PDF icon CNT_SustainableProsperityDecreasing.pdf

Topics:
Climate, Policy, Sustainable Economic Development

 

Housing + Transportation Affordability In the San Antonio Metropolitan Region

by CNT
December, 2008

As San Antonio continues to grow, it has the opportunity to develop in such a way that residents can reduce the environmental impacts of travel, while also reducing household transportation costs. This report provides information on the combined housing and...Read more

Downloadable PDF:
PDF icon CNT_Housing+TransportationSanAntonio.pdf

Topics:
Climate, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Transportation

 

Build for America: A Five-Point Plan to get our Economy Moving

by T4
October, 2008

Our economy is over a barrel, literally and figuratively. Americans are being hammered at every turn. Falling home values, rising gas prices, and Wall Street bailouts with fallout on Main Street. Hanging over it all is a sense that we...Read more

Downloadable PDF:
PDF icon CNT_BuildforAmerica.pdf

Topics:
Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation

 

Chicago’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Inventory, Forecast and Mitigation Analysis for Chicago and the Metropolitan Region

by CNT
September, 2008

This research was part of a broader effort by the City of Chicago to determine the local ramifications of climate change, for its citizens and for City operations. In addition to CNT’s work on emissions and mitigation strategies, the City...Read more

Downloadable PDF:
PDF icon CNT_ChicagoGreenhouseGasEmissions.pdf

Topics:
Climate

 

Reconnecting Fort Wayne: Green Infrastructure

by CNT
August, 2008

The City of Fort Wayne has chosen to use several simultaneous challenges related to its water resources as an opportunity to explore sustainable solutions. CNT was retained to seek hidden assets in the urban neighborhoods and identify ways in which...Read more

Downloadable PDF:
PDF icon CNT_ReconnectingFWGreenInfrastructure.pdf

Topics:
Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Water

 

Squandering the Stimulus: An Analysis of Household Gas Spending, Economic Stimulus Checks, and the Need for Better Transportation Options

by U.S. PIRG
June, 2008

Nothing illustrates how the lack of transportation options hurts consumers and our economy more than the fact that, since approval of the tax rebates in February, Americans on average have already spent the amount of their stimulus checks at the...Read more

Downloadable PDF:
PDF icon CNT_National-Rebate-report-FINAL.pdf

Topics:
Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Sustainable Economic Development

 

Testimony on the Green Resources for Energy Efficient Neighborhoods Act of 2008

by Scott Bernstein, CNT
June, 2008

CNT President, Scott Bernstein’s, testimony on the proposed bill HR6078, the Green Resources for Energy Efficient Neighborhoods Act of 2008 (GREEN Act).Read more

Downloadable PDF:
PDF icon CNT_Bernstein061108.pdf

Topics:
Energy, Policy

 

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