Policy
Arizona’s Starter Home Push Stalls Amid Local Pushback
Legislative bids to remove zoning and design mandates in Arizona’s housing-starved metro areas are stuck in limbo. While the bill aims to fast-track affordable homes, local municipality opposition and concerns over investor ownership have derailed it again.
Policy
From Peak To Trough To Rebound In 60 Days: The Covid Recesison
The recession that was -- from February 2020 to April 2020 -- goes down as a record-breaker for its speedy duration. Except for the millions still living in its grip, and in fear of its next wave of pain.
Policy
How To Reinvent Zoning To Rid Housing Of Racial Inequity
Brookings fellow Lance Freeman proposes a model for public-and-private sector retooling of land-use practices to make them racially-equitable.
Policy
In Market Talktrack, Uncertainty, Even Concessions Crop Up
Two terms have surfaced in the spotty, choppy limbo market dynamic that has checked up both construction flow and demand mojo: Pause and Concessions.
Policy
Help Wanted: 'The Most Powerful And Consequential Job In Housing'
The newly-open FHFA permanent director position has become a lightning rod for battles over government's role in housing's affordability crisis.
Policy
Tri Pointe CEO Doug Bauer On The Inflation Spectre And His Plan For That
A candid TBD one-on-one conversation with the top-20 ranked homebuilder's chief strategist, who believes 'politicized economics led to a bad recipe to stimulate the economy when they did.'
