Policy
How Climate-Forward Rules Trip Up California Affordability Push
California has struggled with housing shortages and affordability. Pursuing climate policies focused on infill development only could be making the struggle worse.
Policy
Regulation Recoil: Developers Avoid Gateway Cities ... Here's Why
Multifamily rental developers focus on investments in the Sun Belt and secondary metropolitan areas, which have tended to outpace others in economic growth, especially in the past several years of the post-pandemic era.
Policy
States Raise Stakes In Bid To Rid Vacant Properties Of Squatters
Data on squatting is scant. The National Rental Housing Council surveyed members and released the results. Atlanta topped the country with an estimated 1,200 homes taken over by squatters, while Dallas-Fort Worth had 475 homes.
Policy
Rent Protections Choke Supply, Drive Rents Higher, Data Says
Has a century-high monument to sweeping American renter protections — many of them designed to battle greed, corruption and their byproduct inhumane living conditions common among rental properties of the past — become one of the cudgels to obliterate 21st-century solutions?
Architecture
Building Back L.A.: Fast-Track Permits That Build In Resiliency
Demand to build homes with materials that can withstand the increasingly frequent and intense wildfires is growing. However, whether the permitting process can keep pace with the demand has become an increasingly-contested, and urgent issue.
