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Scenes From A Malaysian Restaurant
A few weeks ago, my wife and I learned that a Malaysian restaurant we’d been intending to try someday, about a 12-minute drive from our home, was closing at the end of October. Of course, we went. First, with a friend; then the next day jus...
Workouts And Tools
We are taking a look at this pretty typical strip plaza in Centreville, Virginia today. Centreville is not a “town,” but a commercial and population node consisting mostly of this kind of development. So it doesn’t look like much out of a c...
Room Enough At Last
At the Coalition for Smarter Growth’s annual social gathering in Washington, D.C. the other week, I met a recent college graduate who grew up in China as a child and studied and lives in the United States.
We were chatting about housing an...
New and Old #287
A Christian Case for Housing Abundance, Christianity Today, Thomas Irwin, October 7, 2026
Both locally and nationally, the numbers are sobering: From 2022 to 2025, nationwide homeless PIT [a survey method] counts rose 28 percent to 745,6...
Is Japan A Poor Little Rich Country?
Depressed land values aren’t why tiny businesses work
Is Japan vibrant because it’s poor?
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