Tag: Regulation

For decades, city codes required developers to build a minimum number of parking spots, regardless of whether future residents or ...

HB 24 won’t solve everything, but it’s a strong step toward the basics: letting more people build homes in the ...

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

That sense of identity and place that homegrown businesses create—that’s what we want to preserve here," Sean Donaghy told the ...

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 ...

Efforts to balance city budgets are opportunities to build consensus with the public about what municipalities can do, and at ...

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 ...