Redeveloping just 10 percent of strip malls could fill a nine-year supply of housing in the Boston region, a new study finds. What could similar efforts elsewhere do?
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L.A. is facing an increasing problem with homelessness. Can it learn something from the efforts of another large Sunbelt city?
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Like so many other cities, Anchorage needs to encourage more options for housing. But how?
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It’s time we embraced co-housing as a viable solution for both affordable housing and social isolation.
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Small-scale developer Johnny Sanphillippo shares tales of Californians employing simple, low-cost, high-yield measures to get by amidst the housing crisis.
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In Monopoly, there are only two types of real estate: houses and hotels. But were hotels understood differently in 1904, when the game was first created?
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These small towns in Kansas are offering land and housing at a steal in an attempt to fortify their shrinking tax bases. What does this mean for the future of rural America?
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Even people who know the historic benefits of duplexes (and the like) can be wary of re-legalizing them. We need to understand why if we want to effectively promote missing middle housing.
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Insurers think they have the answer to California’s most wildfire-prone areas: get people to stop living there.
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Let’s step back and evaluate the status of some recent, high-profile zoning reforms.
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Has historic preservation harmed the capacity for cities across the U.S. to address the housing crisis?
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A smaller population does not necessarily result in more affordable housing for those looking for it. But why?
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Just as kids ignore sidewalks in favor of walking a more efficient path through the grass, homeowners in California are voting with their toolbelts to create zoning desire paths.
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Connecticut’s Hartford Land Bank isn’t just stewarding the rehabilitation of its community—it’s also bringing up the next generation of local small-scale developers.
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New Zealand just passed the first national policy to both end parking requirements and allow the next increment of (residential) development everywhere. I.e., two major items on the Strong Towns wish list.
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The author of Happy City helped build a home that addressed some of the greatest challenges of our times. But his home is illegal almost everywhere in his city—and in your city, too.
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COVID has enabled us to get some “disaster relief” for the housing crisis. But what about when the pandemic is over?
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The “Zillow Offers” program was supposed to sell thousands of homes to homeowners and landlords…so why is Zillow now having to offload them onto institutional investors, instead?
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This architect demonstrates how there are so many places ready and waiting to become a part of the housing solution—if we would just allow them.
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The housing crisis is hitting small, rural towns—often in even more stark and dire ways than in urban areas.
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