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.
The government has learned nothing about affordable housing in the 50 years since Pruitt-Igoe came toppling down.
Since the 1960s, planners have convinced many state and regional governments to limit the physical spread of urban areas.
Preservationists hope to make the one-time home of Loren Miller a historic landmark. That it would make it nearly impossible to redevelop the $1.4 million two-bedroom home.
Despite apportioning over $1 billion for homeless housing, cost overruns and sluggish pacing threaten to jeopardize the city project.
The comedian doesn’t want a new subdivision behind his house. Fortunately, he can’t stop it.
"Every house that's built is one more acre taken away from (mountain lions') habitat. Where are they going to go?" asks Woodside Mayor Dick Brown.
The New York congresswoman has endorsed much-needed zoning reform, but also raised typical NIMBY complaints about projects in her own backyard.
Gloversville's Free Methodist Church has 40 beds ready and waiting at its downtown shelter. City officials say the zoning code doesn't allow people to sleep in them.
The Golden State's legalization of accessory dwelling units has produced a glut of new housing. New York area policymakers are trying to replicate the success.
Defenders of the CDC eviction moratorium predicted a "tsunami" of evictions would happen if the policy were rescinded. That hasn't happened.
Jurisdictions around the world are trying to address high housing costs by eliminating regulations on new housing construction.
Recent articles in the Texas Monthy and the New York Times provide some useful insight on why Texas has been gaining migrants at such a high rate.
Even supposedly well-designed rent control policies come at the expense of new supply while creating a class of renters opposed to necessary zoning reforms.
A study suggests that "right-to-counsel" in eviction cases actually leads to greater homelessness.
The otherwise positive proposals are undermined by affordability requirements and density restrictions.
Unlike almost every rent control law in the country, the ordinance passed by St. Paul voters includes no exemption for new construction.
Funding for affordable housing and grants to incentivize streamlining zoning laws could represent a policy win for YIMBYs.
Will the "Unlocking Possibilities" program be an effective way to spark zoning reforms—or just a subsidy to planning consultants?
In Buffalo, incumbent Byron Brown staged a successful write-in campaign against DSA-backed candidate India Walton. Elsewhere in the country, DSA candidates won their local races.
Requiring that homes and apartments be a minimum size is a major driver of high housing costs. A new lawsuit from a nonprofit developer argues those rules are also unconstitutional.
A new bill introduced by Council Member Ben Kallos would require landlords to provide broadband internet. It would also forbid them from passing on the costs of internet service to tenants.
The nonbinding ballot initiative encourages the city government to expropriate roughly 15 percent of the city's rental housing stock.
And vacancy taxes won't make them affordable.
Growing evidence confirms that barriers to immigration make us all worse off.
Both liberals and conservatives could take some lessons from the U.S. State Department's list of cities that it recommends Afghan refugees relocate to.
California activists have proposed a ballot initiative that would effectively strip the state government of the ability to regulate land use.
The number of people spending more than 90 minutes getting to work has grown 45 percent over the past decade, according to a new study.
Horror filmmaking has always been political, but the new Candyman takes it to a different level.
The Michigan congresswoman is a co-sponsor of a bill that would suspend all tenants' obligation to pay rent through April 2022.
The new eviction moratorium applies to the 90 percent of counties in the U.S. where the spread of COVID-19 is "substantial" or "high."
The city approved developers' plans for a 10-unit complex. They built 29 homes instead. Now some of those illegal units could have to be dismantled.
Federal Judge David O. Carter says Los Angeles' “inaction" is "so egregious, and the state so nonfunctional" that it's likely "in violation of the Equal Protection Clause."
Congress approved $25 Billion in emergency rental assistance in December. Only 6 percent of that money has been spent so far.
The government and media relied on studies plagued by shoddy statistics to make the case for blocking evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
More and more cities have taken preliminary steps toward allowing "missing middle" housing options in once exclusive single-family neighborhoods, but the devil is in the details.
San Francisco politicians are raising eyebrows at the high costs of an emergency program that provides secure camping sites to the city's homeless.
The federal government's ban on the removal of non-paying tenants was supposed to expire on June 30. It'll now run through July 31.
Plus: Hong Kong police raid a pro-democracy newspaper, Fed officials change their tune on inflation, and more...
Crashing website and impenetrable government bureaucracy greet the tenants and landlords trying to access billions in federally funded rent relief.
The Biden administration wants to give $5 billion to jurisdictions that deregulate their housing markets.
As in the US, they often block the building of new housing in response to demand.
A crop of bipartisan bills in Congress aims to reduce local and state regulations on new housing.
The YIMBY Democrat wants to make it easier to build more housing in California's densest and most expensive cities.
