Ten Good Things That Happened in Texas Public Policy This Year

As Farm&City has done in past years, I want to take a moment to highlight meaningful policy improvements and moments of progress across the state — especially in transportation, urban planning, sustainability, and equity. Even in a year of transition and upheaval, some good things still happened in Texas public policy. These changes did not happen …

Picture of a sign on the side of a driveway that has an arrow pointing forward that says "Vision Zero Summit" and another arrow pointing to the right that says "Overflow parking"

A Note on Farm&City’s Future

Farm&City seeks to be a truly independent nonprofit think-and-do tank working on behalf of all Texans — providing fair, transparent research, education, convening, and advocacy at the intersections of transportation, urban planning, sustainability, and equity. Over the course of our first decade as a startup organization, we proved the strength of our theory of change. …

Policy Hacking April Fools’ Edition: Allocation Games

How Texas MPOs and TxDOT predictions of our future growth and travel behavior dictate our future options and how to fix our regional growth forecast and travel demand modeling systems to spend public funds better and get better outcomes for all Policy Hacking with Farm&City is a monthly in-person and virtual gathering designed to engage and support …