Tag: Permitting and Licensing

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 ...

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

Pre-approved housing plans are a pragmatic, cost-effective way to deliver that. Builders get speed and certainty. Residents get homes. Governments ...

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, ...

The Better Cities Project, in partnership with True Charity, is proud to announce the release of Local Policies to Expand ...

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

Trying to legislate investors out of the market not only won’t solve the problem at hand, it may bring its ...

Design affects how residents use space, interact with neighbors, and connect to their surroundings. When cities default to the same ...