In part because of who I'm connected with on social media, and in part because it seems to be where most of the action is, I tend to follow local.
City of Berkeley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In 1916, New York City enacted its first-in-the-nation zoning ordinance. This kicked off a rapid and radical shift in land use governance.
I fully support Rachel Cohen's ideas here about turning our many abandoned malls into housing. Amy Casciani, a longtime real estate developer whose corporation built housing across seven states, watched.
I don't know if this is an important enough supreme court decision to trigger commentary from Paul or Scott, but a decision of some interest to those of us who.
In the last decade or so, the status quo of near-total deference to local governments on housing and land use policy, leading to exclusionary policies that create economy and middle.
As I've said many times, those who respond to the housing and homelessness crises by saying BUILD BUILD BUILD are just pushing a simplistic talking point that serves to diminish.
Rachel Cohen with a great piece on how California YIMBYs got unions on board. Today, though, a major sea change is happening across California, with some unions now either actively.
The housing issue is complex. So is the homeless issue. Both of these things are more complex than most people believe. I will leave the homelessness issue for a future.
