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Governing Senior Staff Writer Jared Brey

Jared Brey

Senior Staff Writer

Jared Brey is a senior writer for Governing, covering transportation, housing and infrastructure. He previously worked for PlanPhilly, Philadelphia magazine, and Next City, and his work has appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bloomberg CityLab, Dwell, and other publications. He is a contributing editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine, and he lives in South Philadelphia. Follow him on Twitter at @jaredbrey.

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Housing and Urban Issues
How a Century of Transit Choices Courted ‘Disaster’
Decades of underinvestment in streetcar, bus and train service coupled with an increase in public funding and planning priorities to make roads fast, smooth and far-reaching, help explain today's transit situation.
March 31, 2023
 · Jared Brey
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Housing and Urban Issues
Illinois Lawmakers Seek ‘Bold’ Plan for Chicago Area Transit
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is preparing a series of recommendations to address the transit fiscal cliff and governance challenges. State lawmakers told them to "be bold."
March 29, 2023
 · Jared Brey
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Housing and Urban Issues
Lower Fare Revenue, Higher Costs: Transit Leaders Look Ahead
They have to maintain finances as they try to avoid damaging service cuts and, at the same time, push for new bus and train lines. That will require new ideas, because the old ways aren’t going to work.
March 28, 2023
 · Jared Brey
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Housing and Urban Issues
What If City Renters Had More Political Power?
Kansas City tenants have formed a power base and are seeking equal footing with the forces that have traditionally defined how the city is governed.
March 23, 2023
 · Jared Brey
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Housing and Urban Issues
If Congress Cuts Section 8 Housing, These States Will Suffer
The Housing Choice Voucher program helps 2.3 million households pay rent. Biden has called for small increases to the program, while GOP leaders are eyeing cuts that will hit some states especially hard.
March 20, 2023
 · Jared Brey
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Housing and Urban Issues
Atlanta’s Incredible Shrinking Transit Plan
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority recently scaled back a voter-approved plan to add new transit lines, citing cost increases. Leaders worry that delays could further erode support for transit.
March 14, 2023
 · Jared Brey
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Housing and Urban Issues
Homeowners Lose Millions to 'We Buy Houses' Investors
A new report from the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University examines the phenomenon of wholesale real estate investors targeting vulnerable homeowners in poor neighborhoods in Philadelphia.
March 9, 2023
 · Jared Brey
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Housing and Urban Issues
Predicting Future Transit Ridership Is Trickier Than Ever
Amid changing travel behavior, many transit agencies are projecting bus and rail passenger growth based on a range of best-case and worst-case scenarios.
March 7, 2023
 · Jared Brey
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Workforce
Rise in Bus Driver Assaults Triggers New Protection Laws
More than 30 states have laws classifying assault on transit operators as a special category of misdemeanor. Incidents are increasing, and transit workers and their unions are pushing for action at all levels of government.
March 6, 2023
 · Jared Brey
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Finance
City Transit Systems Begin to Peer Over the Fiscal Cliff
BART and other transit agencies are budgeting the last of their pandemic-era federal relief and looking ahead to big, ongoing deficits. Solutions are still hard to find.
Feb. 28, 2023
 · Jared Brey
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