Tag: Housing Affordability

WiIn a region already facing a staggering shortfall of more than half a million homes, the authors lay bare how ...

Many congregations own large pieces of land, vacant buildings, or underutilized parking lots that could be turned into housing. Instead ...

Unlike industries such as electronics where efficiency drives down prices, the housing market resembles sectors like healthcare and higher education, ...

These mandates force developers to overbuild parking, adding tens of thousands of dollars in costs per unit—costs that get passed ...

Cambridge’s reform directly challenges this pattern by making it easier to build new homes without the burdensome approval processes that ...

Housing affordability isn’t going to fix itself. If cities are serious about tackling the housing crisis, they need to rethink ...

For decades, New York’s zoning policies have artificially suppressed housing construction, driving up rents and forcing working- and middle-class residents ...

With vast swaths of the city off-limits to denser developments due to zoning, most rebuilding efforts will reinforce the status ...

Newsom’s revised goal for 2030 and his recent executive order to lower building code costs hint at a pivot toward ...

To effectively tackle housing affordability, policymakers must prioritize increasing housing supply by removing restrictive regulations, thereby enabling the construction of ...