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Five Issues Could Be Key to Solving Texas’ Housing Affordability Woes

Experts share ideas with the Texas Standard on how the state can tackle the high cost of housing.

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Experts Identify Five Ways to Address Texas’s Housing Affordability Crisis

Driven by inflation, high demand, rising property taxes, and more, housing affordability has become a growing crisis in Texas.​

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How to Build an Innovative Economy

How do we build capacity for innovation? Fact is, what one city does may (or may not) be a plug-and-play strategy for another city​.

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Affordable Housing Challenges and Opportunities in Texas

Diminishing housing affordability poses a threat to the Texas’ economic well-being.

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As Texas Grows, There’s a Need for Improved Infrastructure

As more and more people move to Texas, the need for a strong infrastructure becomes more important by the day.

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Opportunity Brookings: An Economic Development Masterplan

Now is the time for Brookings to adopt an economic development approach that harnesses its assets and creates opportunity.

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The Metro State of Texas

Texas is one of the most urbanized in the U.S.; it needs policies that reflect this reality.

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Texas Population Growth Driven By Urban Areas

Improving the issues of affordable​ ​housing and infrastructure unite all Texans.

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Legislature Must Work to Build Better Texas Metros

We need solutions that work for the 90% of the state’s population that lives near cities.

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Let’s Build a Better Metro State of Texas

Both Texas’ problems and its opportunities are the quintessentially urban ones.

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