City politicians and union activists have said the temporary ban on new delivery warehouses is meant to send a message that the company can't just open a new facility without first providing generous "community benefits."
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.
A California Supreme Court decision freezing enrollment at the state's flagship university is focusing the public's fury on the normally obscure, but incredibly consequential, California Environmental Quality Act.
Since the 1960s, planners have convinced many state and regional governments to limit the physical spread of urban areas.
Supervisors have proposed legalizing fourplexes in a way that preserves NIMBYs’ ability to stop new housing. That could trigger the state’s obscure “builder’s remedy.”
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.
A series of bills introduced in the state Legislature would prohibit city councils and county courts from adopting their own eviction moratoriums.
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.
How the zeal for government project housing killed a prosperous black community in Detroit.
"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.
Remy can’t shake off his distaste for San Francisco NIMBYs
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 San Fransicko author on fighting homelessness and mental illnesses without shredding civil liberties.
The traditional case for rent control isn't made any more convincing by a Democratic Socialists of America dance number.
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.
The $1.5 million that it would cost to fully replace balconies at the historic Kenesaw apartment building could end up tripling the condo fees of some low-income residents.
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.
Something to be grateful for.
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.
Plus: The Twin cities both say yes to rent control, Eric Adams will be the next mayor of New York City, and more...
Plus: The Twin Cities will both vote on rent control ballot initiatives, New Jersey and Virginia voters will pick a new governor, and more...
The city's solicitation of public input on the demolition of shacks, sheds, and boarded up homes is an invitation for NIMBYism.
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.
One of the greatest political economists of the 20th century passed away earlier this month.
The tradable development rights the city has in its possession are only made valuable by its insane restrictions on new development.
Plus: Cuba violates the rights of peaceful protesters, New Zealand leads the world in zoning reform, and more...
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.
A month after the Supreme Court struck down the CDC's eviction moratorium, eviction filings remain well below pre-pandemic averages.
New bills passed earlier this week require landlords to give tenants 180 days' notice before raising rents and pay relocation expenses to low-income tenants who move in response to rent hikes.
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.
Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 10 would make it easier to build new housing in much of the state.
A bill intended to make America's housing stock more climate-resilient also includes a big effective subsidy for the properties most exposed to the risks of climate change.
Growing evidence confirms that barriers to immigration make us all worse off.
