The EPA examined residential building permits in the 50 largest metropolitan regions to determine if there has been a shift toward redevelopment and in which regions the shift has been most significant. The trends indicate that the distribution of residential construction has significantly changed over time in many regions. In more than half of the largest metropolitan areas, urban core communities have dramatically increased their share of new residential building permits. However, in many regions, a large share of new residential construction still takes place on previously undeveloped land on the urban fringe.

Dangerous by Design – co-authored by T4America in partnership with STPP, America Bikes, America Walks, and the American Public Health Association – ranks metropolitan areas based on the relative danger of walking. Nearly 5,000 Americans die preventable deaths each year on roads that fail to provide safe conditions for pedestrians.

Reconnecting America is co-publishing the book Moving Minds: Conservatives and Transit, “a collection of studies by renown conservative transit advocates Paul Weyrich and William Lind.” The studies have, “helped conservatives understand why transit should be an essential part of the conservative agenda: because it enhances national security, promotes economic development, helps maintain conservative values including a sense of community, and provides welfare recipients with access to jobs.”

This Transportation Cooperative Research Program report provides descriptions of a variety of funding mechanisms which are currently used or could be used to fund transit. The report includes lists of the advantages and disadvantages of each mechanism and places where the mechanisms are currently implemented.

This APTA report, “focuses on key issues critical to private investors as they consider investments or future expansion into the public transportation industry. Investment questions typically focus on transit financing, sources, process, and dependability, funding targets for investments, and funding needs.”

This report by Greg Lewis of the Northeast-Midwest Institute, “highlights a few examples of cutting-edge, environmentally cognizant, brownfields rejuvenation projects. In addition, the following pages discuss additional brown-to-green opportunities for our nation’s abandoned industrial landscapes.”

The Center for Transit-Oriented Development, “has updated its Realizing the Potential: Expanding Housing Opportunities Near Transit study for the FTA and HUD, which assessed strategies to promote mixed-income housing along five transit corridors in Boston, Charlotte, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Denver and Portland. The new study, Realizing the Potential: One Year Later, finds the downturn in the housing market is playing out very differently in the five regions, and that it hasn’t increased home ownership opportunities for working families.”