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Useful data, but misguided advice: Harvard on housing
Advocates of deregulation-oriented solutions to the affordable-housing crisis continue to notch wins in liberal and conservative states, including California’s “by right” housing reforms and a recently passed package of permitting reforms known as…
Challenge to market-based housing reforms comes up…
Several causes have been offered to explain runaway real-estate valuation. For instance, some cities…
American suburbs are better than most people think
Geoff Graham also responds to Smith, saying, “I am guessing no country subsidizes the infrastructure…
Buying local: The new push to legalize neighborhood…
Also in 2024, as part of a major zoning overhaul, Pomona, Calif., approved the “secondary use of a…
‘Like, bye’: Two words that define Wilson’s start as…
Democratic socialist Katie Wilson took office as mayor of Seattle at the start of the year with big…
Watch: Learn How California’s New Reforms Are Making it Easier to Build ADUs
Watch below as a Sacramento-area homeowner gives us a tour of her family’s newly-build ADU and learn how California’s new reforms are making it much easier to build new ADUs. The post Watch: Learn How California’s New Reforms Are…
Berkeley overcomes its exclusionary history by…
Over a century ago, Berkeley, Calif., pioneered an approach to land-use policy that would go on to…
E-bikes are fun, but cities need to enforce reasonable…
On a fine October day in 2024 I was walking my Pomeranian show dog, Ollie, to my favorite Irvine…
E-bikes are fun, but cities need to enforce reasonable…
On a fine October day in 2024 I was walking my Pomeranian show dog, Ollie, to my favorite Irvine…
California flips out over investors who flip distressed…
Government efforts that rig the system to produce more affordable housing are neither effective nor…
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