We may already know from personal experience that walkability is great for our mental and emotional wellbeing (check out our insight on creating walkable city blocks). Of course, walkable communities can benefit our bodies as well.

In the race to build more housing to address our national housing crisis, many community members are wary of developers simply erecting high rise apartment towers on every block. When it comes down to it, we need more housing–as much of it as we can get. So while we shouldn’t necessarily fear high rises, we should ensure that they are at least doing their job of creating additional housing units. Increasingly though, this is not the case.

The challenges of downsizing within your community and a few solutions.

How can we support increasing rates of multigenerational housing in the US?

MicroLife’s new Pocket Neighborhood development in Clarkston, Georgia.

Atlanta housing is unaffordable. We need to do something about it.

The need for workforce housing with influx of new industry jobs.