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 housing and land-use politics more closely in West Coast jurisdictions. In many ways, the housing...
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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.
The Supreme Court case today over criminalizing homelessness has a lot of interest to me, largely because it comes from Grants Pass, a small town I know well in southwestern.
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 her local community struggle for years to add new homes. Casciani grew up in upstate...
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.
Issues around zoning and building are more DJW's department than mine, but I wanted to note this interesting article about the burgeoning, if super awkward, alliance between left YIMBYs and.
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 class-crushing housing shortages, placing the cost of home ownership and leases in many desirable locations...
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.
Wow, I am so shocked......... The largest credit union in the US has the widest disparity in mortgage approval rates between White and Black borrowers of any major lender, a.
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 supporting the major housing bills winding their way through the legislature, or otherwise signaling that...
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.
Whites in Chicago protesting against the Martin Luther King led campaign to desegregate housing, 1966.