This Indiana city is no longer defined by what it lost, but by what its residents are building today.

In its Housing-Ready City Toolkit, Strong Towns recommended a 24-hour turnaround for permits. That's not an exaggeration.

Good urbanism isn’t an academic abstraction but a lived experience we can see and feel in the world around us.

Rather than join the ranks of abandoned malls, Indianapolis' Glendale Mall demonstrates the promise of suburban retrofitting and the power of small, steady development over time.

Baltimore just took a major step towards making housing more attainable and affordable.

Statewide zoning reform isn't producing the wins everyone expected. An architect reveals why: the permissions may have changed, but the reflexes never adapted.

Fayetteville, Arkansas, just gave residents something rare in the world of housing development: a clear, predictable, and affordable path to building.

When homes are priced beyond what local incomes can sustain, the system stretches the debt instead of fixing the root problem.

After facing constant roadblocks in opening a neighborhood cafe, an artist in Savannah, Georgia, created a board game that mimics the frustration of small-scale development. It was a wake-up call for local officials.

Small, precise zoning code text revisions can be a game-changer for communities facing housing shortages.

Better communication isn’t complicated. If your city wants more incremental development, start there.

For many small developers, the hardest step isn’t swinging a hammer or drawing a site plan; it’s figuring out where to start. Here's how Bentonville, Arkansas, is fixing that.

Here's how Lafayette, Louisiana, became a national leader in supporting incremental developers and creating an ecosystem where community reinvestment thrives.

If you want more affordable, resilient, and context-sensitive housing, you need to equip your residents to build it. Here's how Sacramento did it.

On paper, backyard cottages were legal in Tallahassee, Florida. In practice, they were nearly impossible to build. Here's how the city changed that.

Introducing Stacked Against Us: a podcast about how a national economic gamble broke housing, and why local resilience is the only way forward.

Cities shape themselves around what is easy and what is hard. If you want good development, you need to make it easy to do.

A fourplex is not a high-rise and shouldn’t be treated like one. Memphis is recognizing that.

The challenge facing most small-scale developers isn’t vision or willpower. It’s isolation. If you want to get their builders' projects off of paper, you need to help them connect with a network.

This homegrown developer is bringing practical, thoughtful, and community-focused housing to disinvested neighborhoods in South Bend, Indiana.

Bloomington, Illinois, just passed major housing reforms. Here's how local advocates made it happen.

Detroit residents are leading one of the most ambitious housing revivals in the country.

Oakland, California, recently cut a big piece of red tape around housing, making permits available online in minutes. This is an example for all cities that need more housing.

Kalamazoo cut red tape and launched pre-approved housing plans, making it faster and cheaper to build new homes. Other cities can do the same.