Back from Dystopia

<p>Cities throughout the West face rising crime soaring housing</p><p>costs a sprawling homelessness crisis and devastated</p><p>downtown areas following two years of COVID restrictions and</p><p>the aftermath of destructive protests. Policymakers typically</p><p>address these and other urban problems in a piecemeal</p><p>fashion. They fail to understand what makes great cities thrive.</p><p><br></p><p>The Free Cities Center is Pacific Research Institute's effort</p><p>to foster serious thinking about urban policy. PRI hopes to</p><p>incubate good ideas that will improve our cities. It will feature</p><p>incisive reporting and opinionating on our new web page and</p><p>in a series of webinars research papers and books. If you</p><p>love cities and are brokenhearted by their current state help</p><p>is on the way!</p>