Tom Kappner

Expansion against the community

Columbia's plans for expansion come at an unreasonable cost to its neighbors.

By Tom Kappner | Apr 18 07:32 pm ET

Housing Policy: Politics As Usual

My immediate reaction to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s selection of Maxine Griffith to head up an affordable housing task force was “politics as usual,” one which I am sure mirrors that of

By Tom Kappner | Apr 13 10:16 pm ET

Columbia and the Affordable Housing Crisis

Over and over again we hear the argument that “gentrification,” or the general upgrading in the availability of housing to higher and higher socio-economic groups is the inevitable “result of marke

By Tom Kappner | Feb 27 09:25 pm ET

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