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Main Street America Offers Disaster and Resilience Toolkit!
Main Street America has developed the Main Street Disaster and Resilience Toolkit to help communities prepare for, respond to, and...


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A Walking Audit Can Help You Quickly Improve Street Design
A post-construction walking audit gives us the opportunity to learn and improve from every project.

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The Case for Celebrating Different Developments
For the past 80 years, development in North America has been shaped by a suburban experiment but now...


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Is Your Town Housing Ready? Get the StrongTown.org Tool Kit
These Six Policies Will Make Your Town Housing Ready...


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Why Housing ‘Efficiency’ Isn’t Making Homes Affordable
We find ourselves in the fifth housing bubble of the postwar era, this one driven largely by Federal Reserve intervention and Wall Street


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Eight Graphics That Explain Main Street
Modest increases in budgets, staffing, and volunteers are encouraging, but more significant bumps are needed to substantially increase...


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What is Small Town Smart Growth? And Why it's Critical!
Smart growth means reinvesting in America’s downtowns and main streets, the economic engines of big cities and rural towns alike.


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Dangerous By Design - What Small Towns Should Know
Dangerous by Design finds that 7,522 people were struck and killed while walking in 2022, an average of more than 20 per day.


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Small Town Grant Opportunity- Requires a Match.
$10,000 in funding for resident-driven groups in small cities and towns to start...

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Pros and Cons of Tiny Homes
As small towns look for innovative ways to address housing needs and attract new residents, tiny homes have emerged as a compelling...


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Smart Growth Self-Assessment for Rural Communities
The Smart Growth Self-Assessment for Rural Communities is a compilation of strategies, organized by 11 common "goal areas," that...
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