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Seattle’s public-housing experiment is heading toward disaster
Steven Greenhut
October 20, 2025
It’s long been obvious that America’s history with government-run housing projects has been an unmitigated disaster. They were quite the rage when I grew up around Philadelphia in the 1960s and 1970s, but these public-housing projects always ended up as ...
If you build it, they will socialize? Public spaces and loneliness
D. Dowd Muska
October 17, 2025
If you build it, they will socialize? Public spaces and loneliness By D. Dowd Muska | October 17, 2025 Urbanists have a new item for cities’ to-do lists: Fix America’s loneliness crisis. And their preferred tool? Public spaces. The William ...
Watch the Free Cities Center Interview with Mayor Willie Brown
Pacific Research Institute
July 28, 2025
Watch as Free Cities Center director Steven Greenhut sits down for a wide-ranging discussion with legendary San Francisco Mayor and former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. In this candid interview, they discuss the challenges facing the West Coast’s urban centers including ...
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New Free Cities Center Booklet Calls for Common-Sense Reforms to Better Protect Californians from Wildfires
Steven Greenhut
August 21, 2025
SACRAMENTO – The Free Cities Center at the Pacific Research Institute – the California-based, nonpartisan, free market think tank – today released a new booklet examining the failures in state and local wildfire prevention and response policies during this year’s ...
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Wayne Winegarden
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Wayne Winegarden
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Privatization saves money and improves city services
Sal Rodriguez
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Steven Greenhut
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