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.
Challenging the common knowledge of urban planning
On Monday, a Montana judge roundly rejected homeowners' legal challenge to new laws allowing duplexes and accessory dwelling units in single-family areas.
Lawmakers in Arizona and California are attempting to overcome local resistance to meaningful starter home reforms.
The latest federal homelessness survey finds an 18 percent annual rise in the number of people living without permanent shelter.
The final version of New York's "City of Yes" reforms makes modest liberalizing changes to the city's zoning code.
Despite homelessness being on the rise, local governments keep cracking down on efforts to shelter those without permanent housing.
As hurricane damage mounts, the government is buying—and sometimes seizing—homes in flood-prone areas, sparking concerns over property rights and accusations of discrimination.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been dogged by accusations that it operates dangerous, dilapidated housing. Now, it'll distribute taxpayer dollars to tenant groups fighting for better living conditions.
Plus: An appeals court sides with property owners seeking compensation for the CDC's eviction ban, a Michigan court backs the would-be builders of a "green cemetery," and Kamala Harris' spotty supply-side credentials.
Whoever is president has very weak incentives to get zoning reform right.
Plus: A disappointing first round of "Baby YIMBY" grant awards, President Joe Biden endorses rent control, and House Republicans propose cutting housing spending.
Total spending under Trump nearly doubled. New programs filled Washington with more bureaucrats.
Bureaucratic ineptitude leads to waste—and more people on the streets.
Cabinet officials often use pseudonymous email accounts, but declaring them secret from records requests is another matter altogether.
The Democrat-controlled Senate meanwhile is proposing to expand the program.
Cities are asking for federal zoning-reform dollars to pay for plans that might never pass.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development argues in its complaint that a failure to allow emotional support animals amounts to illegal disability discrimination under the Fair Housing Act.
HOPE Fair Housing Center argues in a new federal complaint that an Illinois landlord's blanket refusal to rent to people with eviction records amounts to illegal sex and race discrimination.
Warren and fellow progressive Democrats have asked President Joe Biden to use the FTC, HUD, or maybe the FHFA to impose nationwide rent control.
It shouldn't be the federal government's responsibility to protect wealthy homeowners from the inevitable.
The overall homeless population stayed basically flat from 2020 to 2022. But the number of people sleeping on the streets increased 3.4 percent.
D.C officials are calling for sweeping reforms to D.C. Housing Authority's governance, or even a federal takeover, in the wake of a damning new report.
"If I do my job right, you should barely know I'm here."
How the zeal for government project housing killed a prosperous black community in Detroit.
A Democratic White House and a Republican Senate might be the best of all worlds when it comes to federal housing policy.
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.
What started as a largely uncontroversial emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic has now become subject of intense legal and policy battles.
The new rule would ask localities receiving federal funding to report on their housing market outcomes and propose concrete steps for improving affordability.
Plus: New York may ban 3D-printed guns and most Americans support Roe v. Wade.
The Manhattan Institute's Howard Husock debates Economic Policy Institute's Richard Rothstein at the Soho Forum.
The HUD Secretary wants to revise Obama-era housing regulations he says do too little to address the real drivers of housing costs.
Austin was part of a group murdered in Tajikistan.
Tenants are challenging a HUD rule that requires local public housing authorities across the country to prohibit people from smoking in their homes.
The city's housing authority committed to selling $138 million of government land for $17 million.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
The Navajo Housing Authority has a long and storied history of waste, fraud, and abuse of federal funds.
HUD program a significant source of corruption and cronyism, and much less about helping the poor
Regulations target transgender access to restrooms in federal buildings and beds in homeless shelters.
We didn't learn the lessons of the last crisis. Does that mean we're doomed to repeat it?
The chronic shortage of inexpensive housing is really a blaring signal for government to get out of the way.
How not to deal with abandoned foreclosed homes.
At least the private ones aren't subsidized by taxpayers
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