Archive - The Messy City

May 2025

Bootstrapping Small Scale Affordable Housing

Listen now | Terrell Jolly talks about his process to renovate homes for deep affordability, and why it's not working right now

May 27 •

58:29

Kevin on The Aesthetic City Podcast

For your Memorial Day listening pleasure

May 23 •

Competition Makes Cities Better

Cities competing with each other is not a problem, it's actually the solution. We could actually use more and better competition

May 20 •

Housing as Economic Development

Listen now | Can lower-cost cities like Kansas City use housing affordability as a differentiator?

May 6 •

59:32

April 2025

Will Your Town Revitalize or Will it Die?

Listen now | A conversation with internet provacateur, Jeff Siegler

Apr 29 •

57:16

Why You Should Make Friends with a Banker

Listen now | The critical role that community banks play in development

Apr 22 •

1:05:59

When Principles Meet the Real World

Listen now | Patrick Tuohey and I discuss how small-government principles can support making cities better. And we have a fun discussion about…

Apr 15 •

1:04:25

Are properties ever really obsolete?

Listen now | Monte Anderson and I discuss golf courses, churches and strip malls

Apr 8 •

59:32

It Is What It Is - Or Not

Listen now | Move past your self-limiting beliefs about the way things are

Apr 1 •

41:52

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