Housing shortages don’t stay confined to city limits. Parking reform shouldn’t either. | Continue reading
Homelessness needs to be understood as a problem driven by a lack of access to housing. It is a market failure. People are forced out of stable housing or are unable to access it when housing markets don’t provide sufficient and affordable options. | Continue reading
“The buildings I had identified as being perpetually and perhaps permanently unusable were very quickly purchased, redeveloped, and are in use right now. | Continue reading
How many times do voters need to say so before journalists believe them? | Continue reading
Might the boldest new examples of leadership for abundant, low-carbon housing come from two of the worst places in the world at providing it? | Continue reading
Here are the three options we think can start to be built today - and five things we learned from this math. | Continue reading
President Joe Biden wants you to lift your bans on duplexes, apartments, and car-free homes. | Continue reading
Political lessons from ten nations about building affordable, low-carbon neighborhoods. | Continue reading
A 2019 law legalizing | Continue reading
The reform sets a new standard: up to four homes on almost any lot, or up to six homes for price-regulated projects. | Continue reading
What the ambitious Seattle HALA plan reveals about building affordable, low-carbon cities. | Continue reading
Allowing modest choices in detached house neighborhoods would help more families find affordable homes and cut climate pollution. | Continue reading
Messaging matters! Here’s our internal talking points memo. | Continue reading
But whoever you are and whatever neighborhood you live in, your life is still being shaped by the ways these forces shaped your neighborhood. | Continue reading
The bill, which would also legalize fourplexes and cottage clusters in larger cities, cleared both House and Senate with wide, bipartisan majorities. | Continue reading
'Middle housing' means gradual evolution, not overnight transformation. Just walk down my street. | Continue reading
The carbon savings from 'middle housing' are voluntary, self-financing and immense. So why are they illegal? | Continue reading
And the one last tweak that would take it from great to stellar. | Continue reading
California’s successful ADU reform offers a lesson for Washington on balancing local and state control of land use. | Continue reading
The bill would let homeowners create modestly priced, green housing choices in neighborhoods across the state. | Continue reading
The city’s new rules to spur missing-middle housing are a good first step, but still retain too many restrictions. | Continue reading
An audit of where the rent check goes reveals the simple answer: Housing is expensive to build and operate. | Continue reading