The rise of remote work has piqued developers' interest in converting empty downtown offices to apartments. Zoning codes and building regulations often make that impossible.
S.B. 4 would let religious institutions and nonprofit colleges skip the typical environmental review and red tape when building low-income housing on their property.
Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity is suing the city of Gainesville to block its legalization of small "missing middle" apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods.
Social housing supporters hope that the city can get city-owned, city-operated housing right with a new office, a more expansive mission, and different branding.
Eventually the player realizes nothing is getting built and quits.
Nashville is the latest city to eliminate minimum parking requirements while simultaneously capping how much parking developers are now allowed to build.
Local governments are considering rules that could force "psilocybin service centers" to locate near highways and go through expensive, discretionary permitting processes.
The biggest beneficiaries of economic growth are poor people. But the deepest case for economic growth is a moral one.
City officials in Nederland, Texas, are kicking around the idea of limiting new massage parlors to industrial areas of town.
A new study presents compelling evidence that opposition to new housing construction is often caused the mistaken belief that it will increase housing prices rather than reduce them.
The Institute for Justice argues evidence from warrantless searches can’t be used for zoning enforcement.
Big cities like New York, Baltimore, and others use strict definitions of family to restrict housing.
Barack Obama could have been referring to our community, when he said that “[t]he most liberal communities in the country aren’t that liberal when it comes to affordable housing.”
From immigration to drug reform, there is plenty of potential for productive compromise.
Local YIMBY advocates express concern that the tool, as written, is overly vague and could be exploited to stop development.
A new law would make it harder for NIMBY neighbors to obstruct new dorms with bogus environmental complaints.
Child care centers should have the same development flexibility as charter schools.
The White House is giving $1.5 billion in INFRA grants to entities that either don't approve new housing or are actively opposed to making it easier to build.
The proposed policy was offensive to property rights and disincentivized construction. The mayor's rejection of it shows the state's increasing interest in allowing more building.
The rapper blamed a lack of "motherfucking inventory" for high home prices and rising rents in low-income neighborhoods. She's not the only one.
The state's Republican administration comes out against property rights and local control.
The community fridge is a civic model that regulators should encourage, not seek to shut down.
A never-before-used state law might make his plans bulletproof.
Government should not penalize investment, thwart competition, discourage innovation and work, or obstruct production.
Labor Day is the right time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet.
Associate Editor Christian Britschgi breaks down how zoning restrictions distort the housing market.
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Enemies of educational freedom are using inane regulations to target learning pods.
State housing officials have launched a first-ever investigation of the city's housing policies and practices, setting the stage for far more sweeping interventions.
Bedford's New Hope Christian Fellowship Church argues in a lawsuit that the town is applying uniquely restrictive rules to its religious gatherings.
The government should not take away reliable and affordable housing from those who need it most.
Several dozen NYC residents want to repeal the regulations allowing outdoor dining in the city.
A new state law prohibits localities from prohibiting or licensing "no-impact" home-based businesses. That's allowing a Des Moines couple to sell guns from their house located just across the street from the governor's mansion.
The new reconciliation bill also nixes a zoning reform program that had been included in the more expansive Build Back Better bill.
The mayor vetoed a controversial ordinance that would have legalized more types of housing on paper while making it harder to build in practice.
Good news for fans of literacy and opponents of restrictive zoning codes
Florida's governor has declared a regulatory war on one of the state's biggest employers. But it's the taxpayers who may ultimately pay the price.
Zoning laws, a limited housing stock, and inflation have created a major housing shortage in the bubble-prone region.
Borough officials in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, told Mission First and Christ Episcopal churches that their charitable work goes beyond what the zoning code allows for downtown churches.
There is telling people how to live, and there is maximizing people's ability to live the lives they want.
Property owners can now build fourplexes in San Francisco, but only if they've owned the land for five years, place the new units under rent control, and don't try to make them much larger than a single-family home.
Three environmentalists groups had argued that the city failed to perform a state-required environmental analysis of its Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan.
Even if the value of their property goes down, current homeowners still often have much to gain from breaking down barriers to new housing construction.
This month, the city passed a number of liberalizing reforms that legalize more types of housing and make already-legal homes more practical to build.
