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.
Fixing a calculation error in a leading academic article on the subject shows that zoning has a far bigger negative impact on the economy than was previously realized.
The agency will be extending its controversial eviction moratorium through the end of June.
Residents of a building that sailed through the city's approval process want to stop a building next door because it would shade a senior center, alter a "historic" gay bar
Freezing rents at existing affordable housing will eliminate developers' incentive to build more of it.
The regulatory pursuit of quality housing means some tiny-home residents actually end up with no housing.
Could allowing blocks to upzone themselves end the most intractable feud in urban development?
A coalition of Chinese immigrant landlords in New York say they're on the verge of losing everything because of tenants who have stopped paying rent.
A new lawsuit from two YIMBY groups argues that the state failed to incorporate a jobs-housing balance when calculating the number of new homes the San Francisco Bay Area has to plan for.
Eviction bans were enacted as an emergency public health measure. They’re quickly becoming a permanent policy.
The Harvard economist explains how to expand opportunity for the young by deregulating housing, labor, and education.
A growing number of states are enshrining eviction moratoriums into laws that won't expire until well into next year.
The president promised to save suburbanites' neighborhoods from a wave of new housing development. They voted against him anyway.
California Sen. Scott Wiener coasted to victory in an election that pitted his deregulatory housing agenda against his opponent's socialist vision.
A new survey from realty company Redfin finds that only 24 percent of Trump supporters and 32 percent of Biden voters support reducing zoning regulations in their neighborhood.
San Francisco, New York City, Boston, and other large metro areas have posted double-digit drops in rent.
When it comes to the two major party candidates' housing plans, libertarians are left looking for the lesser of two evils.
How did California's housing shortage happen and why is it so intractable?
The Trump administration has abandoned its own promising housing reforms in favor of toxic culture war politics.
NIMBYism comes in many different ideological stripes. Fewer homes and higher rents is always the result.
The president has ditched a promising, free market-influenced revamp of Obama-era fair housing regulations in favor of a legally dubious new rule that's heavy on local control.
The Bedrooms Are For People campaign would repeal the city's existing limits on unrelated people living in the same house.
What started as a largely uncontroversial emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic has now become subject of intense legal and policy battles.
Democrats' HEROES Act is mostly about messaging. And it sends all the wrong messages on housing.
Giving renters direct assistance is a better idea than rent cancelation, but that's not saying much.
Rent strikes and calls for rent cancellation proliferate across the country.
The feds pushed cities to implement zoning restrictions. High prices and social inequality were the inevitable results.
Alexandria, Virginia, is the latest city to entertain demands to cancel rent payments during the current pandemic.
The new rule would ask localities receiving federal funding to report on their housing market outcomes and propose concrete steps for improving affordability.
State legislators want to allow duplexes statewide and eliminate local governments' ability to impose aesthetic design requirements.
State lawmakers want to override local zoning codes to let churches and other nonprofits build affordable housing on their own land.
The new money will be consumed in a bureaucratic hiring frenzy, used to pay state-level salaries and pensions, and build a bigger "homeless industrial complex."
Land use regulation is making cities unaffordable. In an unfettered market, how would Americans choose to live?
A previous version of the tax was repealed a month after it was passed in 2018.
Mayor London Breed's Affordable Homes Now initiative would streamline the approval of code-compliant housing projects as long as developers include additional affordable units.
The new initiative from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation would allow local governments to go beyond the state's existing caps on rent increases.
New York City has failed to zone for enough housing to keep pace with growth.
And it might make housing more affordable in many places. Conservative NIMBYs should not stand in the way.
Del. Vaughn Stewart (D–Montgomery County) says a mix of new private and public housing is needed to combat Maryland's housing affordability problems.
Despite amendments to make the bill more palatable to local governments and community activists, Sen. Scott Wiener's (D–San Francisco) SB 50 faces an uphill battle.
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