Transit Alliance Miami, a transit and mobility advocacy group, hopes to encourage the development of more types of housing in Florida with draft legislation that would repeal costly parking minimums.
Read MoreFinding and buying a home is getting harder in the U.S., according to a new report by the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
Read MoreThe single least expensive way to produce a lot of new housing is to follow a template that was once used in virtually every city. Unfortunately, most North American cities effectively prohibit it today. Does yours?
Read MoreHousing affordability in places like Austin, TX, has reached an unacceptable zenith. This local teacher—who works two jobs just to afford her family’s rent—makes the case for zoning reform.
Read MorePublic policy has winners and losers, and parking reform is, unfortunately, no exception. So how should that knowledge impact the way we approach parking reform?
Read MoreAmericans need housing relief imminently. Despite what you may have heard, upzoning isn’t likely to be the thing that delivers that—but here's why it’s still worth pursuing.
Read MoreHigh-earning Americans are saying they might choose to rent indefinitely. Why?
Read MoreOne would expect a Republican governor to endorse free-market solutions on a local level, yet housing and zoning tend to scramble traditional political debates in unexpected ways.
Read MoreLos Angeles lost a hundred thousand affordable homes in a decade. Don’t look to bulldozers to explain how.
Read MoreThe Seattle area is growing fast, and the suburbs are not going to be exempt from change. Data on the true costs of development is helping local advocates develop a vision for a more prosperous—and, yes, populous—future.
Read MoreDiscourse about affordable housing is dominated by a handful of extremely unrepresentative places, and the solutions that might be applicable in those places don't translate in the rest of the U.S.
Read MoreThis LA resident has gone viral after taking matters into his own hands to deal with the housing crisis.
Read MoreAirbnb owners have voiced concerns over plummeting bookings in the last few months. Are we witnessing the “Airbnbust,” and if so, what does this mean for the housing market, as a whole?
Read MoreThe Ontario government has stated that the province will need 100,000 new construction workers and 1.5 million homes over the next decade…and industry leaders aren’t feeling optimistic about it.
Read MoreIf one thing’s clear about the housing market, it’s that it’s currently more sensitive to factors outside of your community—outside of your control—than anything within.
Read MoreA recent CNBC documentary features Strong Towns insights from Charles Marohn about why suburban development is so risky.
Read MoreSuburbia was an experiment—an experiment in the service of building lots of housing very quickly.
Read MoreIncreasingly, for entire cities in the U.S., buying a starter home on a modest income is no longer an option.
Read MoreWe often speak to the “good old days” as a measure of the U.S. at its best…but in 1950, the average American home was 983 square feet, as opposed to the 2,300 square feet of today.
Read MoreAre Wall Street-backed investors the reason you can’t afford a house? The truth is a bit more complicated than that.
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