Zoning Police Criminalize Kindness in Oregon
A town clamps down on distributing clothes, personal care items, and food to the homeless.
A town clamps down on distributing clothes, personal care items, and food to the homeless.
A new study from researchers at Northwestern University found that landlords were incentivized by rising rents to replace existing tenants with new market-rate-paying tenants.
This is the second RAISE grant San Francisco has received since the Biden administration retooled the program to reward jurisdictions for adopting zoning reforms.
The wildly popular podcaster is still "politically homeless" but says leaving California and having a kid have improved her life immensely.
Rent control is getting a rhetorical makeover from progressive policy makers.
The country's largest legacy rent-control policy is pushing building owners to the breaking point.
Home prices were unaffected by a ban on buy-to-rent housing in the Netherlands, but more affordable rental housing disappeared.
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City Councilmember Curren Price is indicted for steering favors to affordable housing developers who were bribing his wife.
Today, voters will consider a citizen petition that would let landlords raise rents to market rates on vacant units.
California recently enacted legislation that invalidates single-family zoning, as an effort to increase housing supply. Other alternatives would be wiser.
Meanwhile, big, partisan "everything bagel" zoning reform bills that tried to squeeze through the entire YIMBY agenda floundered.
Publicly funded leagues of cities are fighting zoning reforms in state capitals across the country.
Leading expert on political ignorance and housing comments on evidence indicating that ignorance, not self-interest, is at the root of most opposition to zoning reform.
Cities become affordable when they build a lot of housing, not when they subsidize it.
Start by looking at the government policies that have made it worse.
The ideology champions the same tired policies that big government types predictably propose whenever they see something they don't like.
Progressives like to argue that rent control policies that exempt new construction don't impact the construction of new housing.
The Texas Senate has passed two bills legalizing building homes on smaller lots and accessory dwelling units across the state.
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The legislation would give property owners "sole discretion" in deciding how many parking spaces they want to build.
Montana's sweeping new zoning reform is both good in itself and a potential model for cross-ideological cooperation on this issue elsewhere.
A new Pew Charitable Trusts study examining jurisdictions with that reformed zoning finds far lower rent increases there than elsewhere.
Activists who would like to see more housing built and people who build housing for a living would seem to be natural allies. A new bill in the California Legislature is driving them apart.
Today, the Lone Star state counts 90 homeless people per every 100,000 residents. In California, the problem is almost five times as bad.
Have we forgotten the era of mass institutionalization?
If a municipality fails to approve or deny a permit by state-set deadlines, developers could hire private third parties to get the job done.
Arlington's successful passage of a modest missing middle housing reform bill after an intense debate raises the question of whether YIMBY politics can practically fix the problems it sets out to address.
The new law would allow developers to build housing on commercially zoned lots provided they include affordable units.
A controversial "good cause" eviction bill that would cap rent increases could be included in a budget bill that must pass by April 1.
Restricting foreign real estate ownership has something for both sides—conservatives don't like foreigners, and progressives don't like capital.
In Caroline, New York, officials are trying to impose the city's first zoning code. These residents won't have it.
The new policy isn't ideal. But it's an important deregulatory step in the right direction, making it easier to build new housing in response to growing demand.
Land use policies explain the battles over everything from the Great Recession to abortion to Donald Trump.
The allegedly smart balance "anti-rent gouging" policies have struck between supply and stability is already unraveling.
A new report illustrates that the middle of the housing market is still missing.
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Yet another court decision stopping a U.C. Berkeley housing project is getting California's policy makers to think bigger about reforming the infamous California Environmental Quality Act.
Lawmakers are considering giving state officials the ability to rewrite NIMBY cities' restrictive zoning codes.
The federal government owns the majority of land in states that have seen the biggest pandemic-era housing price spikes. Selling that land off for residential development makes abundant sense.
An oddball coalition of neighborhood activists and left-wing politicians have opposed plans to convert the privately owned site to housing, citing the loss of open space and impacts on gentrification.
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The city's old-school rent control scheme worsened housing quality but had no effect on housing supply. Mayor Michelle Wu's new rent control law will likely have the opposite effect.
The 2nd Circuit reasoned that the government hasn't necessarily taken a landlord's property when it forces him or her to operate at a loss while renting to a tenant he or she never agreed to host.
The White House's idea of using Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to adopt rent control faces numerous legal and practical hurdles.