Tag: Community preservation
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🎉Milestone Announcement!
We have been quiet for a couple of months, but for good reason. Builders Without Borders has just grown its board for the first time, with two new members! Robert “Rue Rob” Jackson is a 5th generation Houstonian, 3rd Ward resident, a passionate leader dedicated to strengthening neighborhoods and expanding opportunities for long-standing residents. His…
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The New Kinder-SoH Just Dropped
What is Kinder-SoH? Is that a candy from overseas? No. Kinder = The Kinder Institute at Rice University, which is a nationally recognized hub for data-driven research on urban planning. Think: housing, transportation, infrastructure, and climate resilience. For architecture and sustainability professionals, the Institute’s work provides critical insights into the intersection of policy + the…
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The Grassroots Community of Urban Planning
There’s a group called Strong Towns. It’s a national group, started by Charles Marohn, with the intent to shift our building priorities from the WWI-era thinking that generated most of them. Some chapters key in on fighting the vampiric dominance of the single-family home model, passing ADU policy, and affordable housing. Here in Houston, we’re…
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LISC: Envision Houston
On March 26, 2025, LISC Houston hosted their 2nd annual Envision: State of Communities – Neighborhoods Taking Action at the Federal Reserve Bank here in Houston. The focus of the day-long conference was to uplift, highlight, and elevate the people and entities involved in affecting change within the neighborhoods across the City of Houston and Harris…
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