Tag: Housing Affordability

By resolving code compliance questions upfront, cities can reduce delays that add carrying costs and risk to housing projects.

Over the last half-century, we’ve built a governing regime designed to stop government from doing harm. And it largely succeeded. ...

For much of the postwar era, the starter home served as a practical entry point into the housing market. It ...

St. Paul’s rent control ordinance capped annual rent increases at 3 percent for most units, regardless of turnover or inflation. ...

Minimum lot size requirements restrict the number of homes that can be built, even where demand and infrastructure support more. ...

The core of Baltimore’s reforms is regulatory simplification. By removing a mandated minimum of off‑street parking, the city lowers one ...

Removing parking minimums can increase the flexibility to use small undeveloped or underdeveloped parcels for “missing middle” forms of housing, ...

Landlords in New York City swiftly absorbed broker fee costs into rent—causing a 15 percent uptick in advertised prices and diminutions ...

From The Kansas City Star

These mandates often make small apartment buildings financially unfeasible, leading developers to build larger, more expensive complexes instead—or nothing at ...