Strong Towns

Strong Towns is an education and advocacy organization committed to creating durable, fiscally sustainable and desirable communities. It was formed by Community Growth Institute in 2009 in a joint venture with Donjek Reinvestment Strategies, Inc. 

The mission of Strong Towns is to support a new model for growth that allows America’s towns to become financially strong and self-sufficient.

America's current approach to growth emphasizes investments in new infrastructure to serve or induce new development. This approach uses public dollars inefficiently, destructively subsidizes one type of development over another and leaves massive maintenance liabilities to future generations.

A Strong Town approach emphasizes obtaining a higher return on existing infrastructure investments. We can no longer simply disregard old investments in favor of new, but instead we need to focus on making better use of that which we are already committed to publicly maintain.

To learn more, visit Strong Towns online at www.strongtowns.org or read the Strong Towns Blog at www.strongtownsblog.org.