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by Steven Greenhut (Author)
Cities throughout the West face rising crime, soaring housing
costs, a sprawling homelessness crisis and devastated
downtown areas following two years of COVID restrictions and
the aftermath of destructive protests. Policymakers typically
address these and other urban problems in a piecemeal
fashion. They fail to understand what makes great cities thrive.
The Free Cities Center is Pacific Research Institute's effort
to foster serious thinking about urban policy. PRI hopes to
incubate good ideas that will improve our cities. It will feature
incisive reporting and opinionating on our new web page, and
in a series of webinars, research papers and books. If you
love cities and are brokenhearted by their current state, help
is on the way!
