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.
Brief
Price Tag For Regulation Costs On New Home Construction: $94K
A 24% slice of the new-home selling price pie goes now to "regulatory burden," the weight of land-use permitting, impact fees, cost-of-time charges, etc. in the pre-construction stages, and the added expense of start-to-completion construction cycle code and regulation.
Policy
Cities, States Clash Over New Hook Ups To Natural Gas
There is no place for homebuilders to duck and cover in the crossfire between blue dot cities and red state governments over the battle to phase out natural gas in homes.
Policy
Re-Entry Level: Impact Justice, A Bridge From Prison To Home
The Homecoming Project serves as a kind of societal acupuncture, designed to heal raw material social fabric. A 2021 winner of the Ivory Prize for Innovation in Housing Affordability in policy and regulation -- it presses the raw nerve-endings of racism.
Policy
Six Impossible Housing Ideas: Unmasking Local Land-Use Policy
The thinking that brings you new local land-use “tools in the toolbox” – inclusionary housing, affordable housing fees, tax credits for buyers -- will not bring you homes for more people.
Capital
As The Prices Crisis Intensifies, Here's An Opportunity Not To Miss
In its perfect form – where perimeter identically measures its area – a triangle sets a precise scope and magnitude of challenge people in the complex community of housing investment, development, design, construction, and delivery find toughest to solve.
