New Pew Research Center Report on "How States and Cities Decimated Americans' Lowest-Cost Housing Option"
They have done so banning or severely restricting low-cost "single-room occupancy" (SRO) housing.
They have done so banning or severely restricting low-cost "single-room occupancy" (SRO) housing.
The Guardian Angels founder battles Zohran Mamdani for the anti-establishment vote while he fights Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo for the anti-socialist vote.
Highlighting individual wonky rules that drive up housing costs is good. But getting America building again is going to require more than a few marginal reforms.
Despite meeting all the requirements, the Board of Commissioners in Clayton County made an arbitrary decision to deny Khalilah Few a conditional use permit to open her salon.
Building our way to affordable cities does not require a government-led "post-neoliberal" approach to housing development.
Rent control would only make the housing crisis worse. Zoning reform would make things better.
Plus: Why Blackstone is good, actually, and a Georgia judge rules for tiny homes.
The Pepin family is suing the City of Blaine after the City Council used dubious reasoning to deny a permit for additional housing on their property.
Congress considers a consensus housing supply bill while the White House cracks down on the homeless.
A federal judge ruled that Peninsula Township’s former restrictions on music, events, and grape sourcing violated the rights of local wineries.
Plus: Single-stair reform in Nashville, an inclusionary zoning lawsuit in Seattle, and a zoning-created full-service Popeyes in Illinois.
You have rights to your property, not to control others.
A new lawsuit alleges that the city's Mandatory Housing Affordability program unconstitutionally penalizes property owners just for trying to build housing.
The housing crisis is bad for national Democrats. At the state level, it's a political winner.
Academics are supposed to discover nonobvious, counterintituitive truths. But, especially in recent years, much of my work involves defending positions that seem obvious to most laypeople, even though many experts deny them.
The city where The Truman Show was filmed balances communal norms with private preferences.
The symposium is seeking submissions.
Plus: The Supreme Court declines to hear major eviction moratorium case, Maine passes zoning reform, and why tourist traps are good, actually.
In recent years, exclusionary zoning and other regulatory restrictions have begun to block housing construction in areas where it was once relatively easy.
The new legislation exempts most new urban housing construction from the previously often stifling CEQA law. YIMBY ("yes in my backyard") advocates are cheering.
Despite this setback, a coalition of municipalities is challenging the state’s housing program in federal court.
YIMBY policies in Texas have led to lower rents and increasing supply. The same cannot be said for California.
Plus: housing reform is killed in Connecticut, bonus ADUs are gutted in San Diego, and two decades of Supreme Court-enabled eminent domain abuse.
It is part of the Yale Journal on Regulation Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London.
Starbase, Texas, is rushing to restrict development in the newly incorporated city.
The study by leading housing economists Edward Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko finds there are 15 milion fewer housing units in the US than there would be if construction in 2000-2020 had continued at the same pace as in 1980-2000.
Plus: A new constitutional challenge to inclusionary zoning fees, a vetoed ban on rent-recommendation software, and a ill-conceived rent freeze in New York City.
Out-of-control housing costs helped Trump win the 2024 election. Is he about to make the problem worse?
Plus: The near death of starter-home reform in Texas, Colorado's pending ban on rent-recommendation software, and a very Catholic story of eminent domain abuse.
A recent policy report points to much-needed market-based reforms.
Conway, New Hampshire's attempt to force a local bakery to take down the mural "does not withstand any level of constitutional scrutiny," a judge ruled this week.
The Court has been punting for months on whether it will take up a legal challenge brought by Los Angeles landlords alleging their city's COVID-era eviction ban was a physical taking.
Plus: The White House proposes stiff funding cuts at HUD, Baltimore proposes "missing middle" reforms, and Gov. Gavin Newsom urges local governments to clear encampments.
Plus: California zoning bill survives powerful lawmaker's economic illiteracy, Montana legislators pass simple, sweeping, supply-side housing reforms, and Washington passes rent control.
Bills designed to allow more starter homes and apartments near transit face an uncertain future in the state Senate's housing committee.
Shahzaad Ausman has had to sue the county to confirm that he can continue to live in his own home.
Jon Tolley and his family have been serving fresh lobster from their home for over 50 years, but an anonymous complaint to town regulators threatens to shut their business down for good.
Despite politicians touting progress, Los Angeles has only issued three permits for wildfire rebuilds and debris removal is expected to drag on for many months.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's plan to create a federal housing developer is a terrible idea.
Challenging the common knowledge of urban planning
The panelists included M. Nolan Gray, Jennifer Hernandez, and myself.
Plus: the federal government tries to stiff landlords over eviction moratorium one last time, the Supreme Court declines to take up eminent domain case, and starter home bills advance in Arizona and Texas.
A Rhode Island town seeks to use eminent domain to block construction of a large-scale affordable housing project.
The owners, who were planning an affordable housing project on the site, first learned about the seizure from the mayor's social media post.
Plus: Texas and Minnesota consider an aggressive suite of housing supply bills, while San Diego tries to ratchet up regulations on ADUs.