For More Affordable Housing We Need More Housing, Period
St. Louis, at least relative to other cities, is not facing a housing affordability crisis. In fact, a 2024 study...
Pittsburgh, Poster Child for Sloppy Housing Policy
In the weeks and months ahead, researchers at the Show-Me Institute will be taking a closer look at housing policies...
Kansas City Should Rely On Its Strengths
Everyone knows that Kansas City is one of the best places in America to find barbeque, but according to a...
Follow-up on Kansas City Population Trends
The other day we published a post about some Brookings Institution data suggesting the Kansas City was doing well with...
Kansas City and St. Louis Battling National Trends
From costly bad bets subsidizing the development of Kansas City’s Power & Light District to promoting the St. Louis Ballpark...
Ignore the Gimmicks. Here Are the Reasons Amazon Should Come to Missouri.
My colleague Patrick Tuohey has talked at length about the stunts some have pulled to try and get Amazon to...
Kansas City’s Intermodal Strength
The announcement a few months ago that Amazon would be opening a fulfillment center in Kansas City, Kansas was great...
Kansas City’s Remarkable Transportation System
Wendell Cox recently published a paper for the Show-Me Institute on Kansas City’s competitive advantages. One of the things that...
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Video: Kansas City: Genuinely World Class
The climate is so-so, there’s no nearby ocean or mountain range, and the metro area population has climbed only modestly...
