Tucson leaders decided to keep buses and streetcars free to ride for the rest of the year, buying time to discuss how to pay for public transit and keep riders and drivers safe.
This crisis demands more housing and more housing types to be built as soon as possible. One way to accomplish this, especially on infill sites, is to embrace more density.
Tucson’s public transit system will remain free to ride, the city council decided on Tuesday, but they’re going to ask a new task force to figure out how to pay for free rides and future system improvements.
"It’s about recognizing that we need to make it easier to build housing of all types, with a priority on affordable housing. It isn’t helpful to paint every developer as evil and extractive. It depends.”
The coalition is made up of several community organizations invested in public transportation. Transit riders and volunteer allies are writing letters and emails to the mayor and council in support of keeping public transportation free for all Tucsonans.
There’s a new push to keep public transportation free. On Tuesday, the Tucson for All coalition announced its new campaign to secure permanently-free public transit...
A strong infill supporter, Schubert said: “I think the affordable housing crisis is really complicated. You can’t point to any one cause — a significant factor is that there’s just not enough housing in the places where people need it.”
When presented with a choice, “no change” can feel like the default option. But every time we refuse change, we are affirming that the victims of the housing shortage are a price we’re willing to pay.
The current ADU ordinance uses a neighborhood-scale development approach to make an incremental step toward increasing our housing stock.
