Many jurisdictions are alleviating housing shortgages by cutting back on zoning. Unfortunately, there is also a trend towards expanding rent control, which is likely to have the opposite effect.
NIMBYism has dominated housing policy for the last ten years. Will the 2020s be any better?
The Ninth Circuit says no, and the Supreme Court isn't weighing in.
Los Angeles County saw disease outbreaks and 1,000 homeless deaths last year.
But she's wrong about why it's bad.
More federal spending won’t make housing more accessible as long as regulations and zoning drive up prices.
The source of the state's housing affordability problems are onerous government regulations and fees that artificially drive up the costs of housing.
California's progressive political imperatives are having such glaring real-world repercussions that it's hard to keep ignoring them.
A new study of inclusionary zoning policies in the D.C. and Baltimore metro areas finds that the policy ends up raising rents.
California is about to get a real world lesson in how rent control laws can't solve a housing crisis.
The Minneapolis city council just made the rental business a lot riskier for property owners.
Rent increases could be capped at 5 percent plus inflation under a new agreement struck by Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders.
Landlords are suing to overturn state rental regulations that limit how much they can charge tenants and who they can rent to.
Yet another neighborhood group is using a California environmental regulation to stop a housing project they don't like.
It's by building lots more housing, obviously.
This is nearly double the increase the city first reported in May.
The 2020 contender wants to give $25,000 grants to homebuyers living in historically segregated neighborhoods.
State lawmakers end the legislative sessions by passing a bill that will allow for denser housing construction across the state.
Delaying housing projects for years will not make cities more affordable.
Proposed legislation aims to crack down on "McMansions."
A compromise version of the bill would cap rent increases at 7 percent plus inflation for three years.
SB 50's upzoning provisions were repeatedly watered down to make the bill more politically palatable. It turns out that wasn't enough.
"When you start having mandates and [the] state setting price controls, you create all kinds of distortions in the market."
A flaw in a proposal that would let developers build more high-density apartments and condos is that it doesn't go nearly far enough
SB 50 is starting to look less like a bold reform, and more like a marginal improvement on a dreadful status quo.
Fresh from their 2018 defeat, California's rent control advocates are back with another statewide ballot initiative.
A new mailer from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation argues that allowing the construction of apartment buildings near transit stops is tantamount to "negro removal."
At least now we're arguing over the right thing: the need to hike housing supply.
This is not the first time the city has tried to delay a project over shadow concerns.
Tokyo is a shining example of how free market housing regulations can keep even big, growing cities affordable.
The senator's own San Francisco is a case study in the policy's poor consequences.
The bill comes with new risks for tenants and property owners alike.
All three Senate Democrats running for president have distinctive housing reform proposals.
How much power does the state of California have to force NIMBY localities to build more housing?
How a heavily subsidized Culver City development became the nation's most expensive affordable housing project.
NYC's mayor takes on private property (again).
The HUD secretary's desire to tackle restrictive zoning is encouraging, but real reform will have to come from the bottom up.
Bob Tillman has spent nearly 5 years and $1.4 million trying to convert his laundromat into new housing.
Reforms in multiple jurisdictions could help loosen restrictions on development that infringe on property rights, inflate housing prices, and cut off large numbers of people from job opportunities.
Zoning rules that severely restrict home construction cut off millions of poor people from jobs and affordable housing. The Minneapolis reform is the most extensive reduction in zoning achieved by any major American city in a long time.
Restrictions on the supply of new housing are making California's cities increasingly unaffordable.
Community members in the Mission District worry that the proposed market-rate development will spur gentrification.
Leaving The Bay Area is a real estate brokerage that helps people decamp for cheaper, greener pastures.
Despite the claims of NIMBY activists, cities can build their way out of a housing crunch
A positive but marginal reform to the Golden State's byzantine housing regulations
The American Housing and Economic Mobility Act would nearly double current federal housing spending.
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