Tag: Housing Affordability

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 ...

A must-read for anyone trying to understand why California, despite its wealth and innovation, remains so deeply challenged when it ...

New Rochelle has completed more than 4,500 units in the past decade, with another 6,500 planned—a potential 37 percent increase ...

There’s no substitute for the hard work of delivering core services efficiently and keeping costs down. Anyone telling you otherwise ...