Why Homelessness Is Worse in California Than in Texas
Today, the Lone Star state counts 90 homeless people per every 100,000 residents. In California, the problem is almost five times as bad.
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.
During the pandemic, the U.S. mortgage market avoided collapse without any bailouts. Here's how.
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.
Warren and fellow progressive Democrats have asked President Joe Biden to use the FTC, HUD, or maybe the FHFA to impose nationwide rent control.
Planners and politicians from Saudi Arabia to Scotland want to transform interconnected cities into isolated "urban villages" no one ever needs to leave.
Multiple factors contribute to housing shortages, but zoning constraints are mostly to blame.
The governor would let developers route around local zoning codes and get housing projects approved directly by state officials.
Economist Bryan Caplan explains how cutting back on zoning and other restrictions could create millions of new jobs for workers - on top of other beneficial effects.
Progressive politicians are irritated they have to make the same tradeoffs in their living situation as other high-income professionals.
Taxes and bans on foreign home ownership haven't arrested home price increases where they've been tried. There's no reason to think Canada's policy will be more successful.
Rents and home prices skyrocketed almost everywhere over the past two years. There's some hope new supply will bring costs down in the new year.
Landlords say that nearly three years of eviction moratoriums is forcing some property owners out of the rental business entirely.
The overall homeless population stayed basically flat from 2020 to 2022. But the number of people sleeping on the streets increased 3.4 percent.
Golden State lawmakers have refused to fix the California Environmental Quality Act. Now it could cost them a brand new office building.
The mayor is proposing a long list of helpful, but marginal, reforms that would speed up the city's approval processes for new housing.
The rise of remote work has piqued developers' interest in converting empty downtown offices to apartments. Zoning codes and building regulations often make that impossible.
S.B. 4 would let religious institutions and nonprofit colleges skip the typical environmental review and red tape when building low-income housing on their property.
Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity is suing the city of Gainesville to block its legalization of small "missing middle" apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods.
Social housing supporters hope that the city can get city-owned, city-operated housing right with a new office, a more expansive mission, and different branding.
The biggest beneficiaries of economic growth are poor people. But the deepest case for economic growth is a moral one.
Property owners in Kingston, New York, argue the city is vastly underestimating its vacancy rate in order to justify ruinous rent cuts.
Voters in Orange County, Florida, and Pasadena, California, will vote on ballot initiatives that cap rent increases at, or below, inflation.
The Vail Town Council says that while affordable housing is desperately needed in the community, Vail Resorts' Booth Heights project would threaten local bighorn sheep.
D.C officials are calling for sweeping reforms to D.C. Housing Authority's governance, or even a federal takeover, in the wake of a damning new report.
State officials have been warning Anaheim for decades that their regulations on transitional housing were illegal. The city's rejection of nonprofit Grandma's House of Hope's group home was the last straw.
It will just give the state more power to control those deemed mentally ill.
Local YIMBY advocates express concern that the tool, as written, is overly vague and could be exploited to stop development.
A new law would make it harder for NIMBY neighbors to obstruct new dorms with bogus environmental complaints.
The St. Paul City Council passed a series of amendments to a voter-passed rent stabilization ordinance that exempt new construction and make it easier for landlords to factor inflation into rent increases.