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New Arkansas Zoning Strategy May Loosen NIMBY Chokehold
Arkansas has enacted a law allowing cities and counties to bypass traditional public hearings and legislative votes for zoning changes to streamline housing development and reduce NIMBY influence.
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The Showdown In Nashville: A Missing Middle Moment Of Truth
Nashville's planning department recommended modestly increasing density to help meet housing demands, but the effort quickly ignited fierce local opposition. The local battle underscores sweeping national tensions between growth and neighborhood preservation.
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Colorado’s Housing Crisis: Lower Barriers, Raise Capability
With a builder's legacy, a bipartisan movement gains momentum to reform regulations and spark housing affordability solutions.
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.
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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?
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Policy 04.29.25
New Arkansas Zoning Strategy May Loosen NIMBY Chokehold
Arkansas has enacted a law allowing cities and counties to bypass traditional public hearings and legislative votes for zoning changes to streamline housing development and reduce NIMBY influence.
Policy 04.04.25
The Showdown In Nashville: A Missing Middle Moment Of Truth
Nashville's planning department recommended modestly increasing density to help meet housing demands, but the effort quickly ignited fierce local opposition. The local battle underscores sweeping national tensions between growth and neighborhood preservation.
Policy 04.01.25
Colorado’s Housing Crisis: Lower Barriers, Raise Capability
With a builder's legacy, a bipartisan movement gains momentum to reform regulations and spark housing affordability solutions.
Policy 03.18.25
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 03.10.25
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?
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