Tag: Permitting and Licensing

For municipal leaders, the real takeaway is this: any meaningful improvement in affordability will require building more homes. Whether your ...

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 ...

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 ...