Living with extended family is something Americans often associate with immigrant households. But why?
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SB 9 just passed in California, effectively ending single-family zoning there. The open question is, "What now?" Will anything actually change?
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Big, complicated zoning codes create an environment that gives developers no smaller-scale competition.
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What can we learn about the housing market and corporations buying back their own stock...through anecdotal references? (As it turns out, quite a lot!)
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Conflating the one with the other keeps us from understanding the housing market in a coherent way. Here’s why.
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The inequities in the tax assessment system are national. But the solutions will have to come from the bottom-up.
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If we want to live in a free and equitable society where everyone has the potential to succeed and experience prosperity, we have to understand where the inequities begin.
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The eviction moratorium is going to end, and when it does, we face the prospect of mass evictions throughout the country. Let's talk about what that means and what it says about our housing system.
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Churches in Seattle could provide affordable housing for their communities, while gaining a sustainable source of income…if they weren’t being obstructed by city leaders.
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It’s no wonder that some people oppose new housing when the housing and infrastructure projects they see are disruptive construction work that drags on for years.
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Our cities need to be shaped by many hands, not few. Whether you’re a professional or not, you have an important role to play in this process.
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The recent tragedy in Surfside, Florida, is both a harbinger of things to come and emblematic of the nation’s larger problem with maintaining our built environment.
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Not every problem associated with housing is directly a supply or scarcity issue, but housing scarcity is real, and it tends to make just about all the other problems associated with housing worse.
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In 2016, Portland enacted an Inclusionary Housing policy affecting buildings of 20+ units. The result? The city now has a bunch of new 19-unit buildings. Let’s talk about intervening in a system as complex and adaptive as the housing market.
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Given our current pattern of development, is it overly romantic to want to transition through the stages of life while remaining in the same neighborhood, with the same people around us?
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Annapolis's downtown has become dominated by short-term rentals, and it’s beginning to degrade the community’s social capital.
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The benefits to a bottom-up approach to affordable housing don’t just build wealth and resilience; they can be deeply personal, too.
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The “Takings Clause” prohibits the government from taking private property without just compensation. But what if it’s interpreted in unexpected ways?
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A controversy-courting Atlantic article makes a full-throated defense of “luxury” development—and argues that more, not less, of it is what the doctor ordered for our unaffordable housing markets. Does this prescription hit the mark?
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Detroit today, your town tomorrow. Here’s how we can help keep homes out of foreclosure and residents from being evicted.
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