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.
A new report from The Community Housing Improvement Program argues that allowable rent hikes in rent-stabilized buildings cover less than half the increase in operating costs.
The rapper blamed a lack of "motherfucking inventory" for high home prices and rising rents in low-income neighborhoods. She's not the only one.
The cost of shelter was up 0.7 percent in August and 6.2 percent for the year, according to the latest Consumer Price Index report.
The state's Republican administration comes out against property rights and local control.
A never-before-used state law might make his plans bulletproof.
Government should not penalize investment, thwart competition, discourage innovation and work, or obstruct production.
But Bank of America's Community Affordable Loan Solution program will likely be a gentrification accelerating machine.
Associate Editor Christian Britschgi breaks down how zoning restrictions distort the housing market.
The city's expanded down payment assistance program is a recipe for increasing home prices.
The California Environmental Quality Act gives everyone the right to delay the approval of new housing. The Golden State's NIMBY activists are happy to exercise that right.
Florida landlords and realtors argue that Orange County is abusing its emergency powers.
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Little, if any, of the $2.2 billion in RAISE grants have gone to jurisdictions proactively deregulating housing construction.
The governor blamed local restrictions on new development for the state's rapidly rising rents and home prices.
State housing officials have launched a first-ever investigation of the city's housing policies and practices, setting the stage for far more sweeping interventions.
The government should not take away reliable and affordable housing from those who need it most.
New housing construction for 1,100 UC Berkeley students and 125 homeless people was paused Wednesday in response to protests.
The new reconciliation bill also nixes a zoning reform program that had been included in the more expansive Build Back Better bill.
The mayor vetoed a controversial ordinance that would have legalized more types of housing on paper while making it harder to build in practice.
Zoning laws, a limited housing stock, and inflation have created a major housing shortage in the bubble-prone region.
Two St. Paul, Minnesota, landlords claim that the city's restrictions on rent increases above 3 percent amounts to a taking of their property without due process or compensation.
Miami and Austin lured people away from California. But the new tech hubs could end up repeating San Francisco’s mistakes.
The comedian largely ignores laws against new supply while arguing we should declare housing a federally funded, government-provided human right.
Even if the value of their property goes down, current homeowners still often have much to gain from breaking down barriers to new housing construction.
A Urban Institute research brief found that affordable housing developments in Alexandria, Virginia, were associated with a small increase in surrounding property values.
This month, the city passed a number of liberalizing reforms that legalize more types of housing and make already-legal homes more practical to build.
The administration is encouraging counterproductive "inclusionary zoning" policies that often raise housing prices and reduce supply.
Pittsburgh-area developers argue in a new lawsuit that the city's requirement that they include affordable units in their projects is an unconstitutional taking.
Housing production is rising and rents are falling. But newly legal duplexes and triplexes make up only a tiny fraction of new development.
The administration is proposing to spend $10 billion over ten years incentivizing local and state governments to remove regulatory barriers to new housing construction.
The Pine Tree State is embracing California-style housing reforms. It could run into California-style problems.
These "inclusionary zoning" policies have a record of increasing housing costs and suppressing new housing supply.
A new paper finds that lower income property owners are seeing the biggest falls in property values while high-income renters will get the biggest discounts on rent.
Foreign buyers are a small percentage of new home purchases. Excluding them from the housing market does little to reduce housing costs.
A collapse in new development activity followed St. Paul voters' approval of a strict, vaguely written rent control ordinance. City and state officials are scrambling over how best to fix the new law.
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