"Cities that truly embrace incrementalism understand that interesting places are emergent by nature."

To skip delays and debate, a California Costco added 400,000 square feet of housing to its plans — a move that unlocked a faster approval process.

Housing shortages are housing spillovers.

Rates of loneliness and unhappiness are on the rise in the United States, but our European counterparts don’t seem to have the same problem. Why?

Learn how Habitat continues to pursue housing construction in the face of difficult conditions, why good schools are more important than you realize, and why Habitat owners participate in the construction of their own homes.

Housing is an oxymoron: Housing is treated as an investment, and good investments constantly increase in price. To escape this paradox, we must change the way we think about housing.

Like so many places, Muskegon, MI, has a shortage of housing and a surplus of vacant lots. That’s why it’s enacted a program that allows it to redevelop those lots into affordable housing—at a low risk to the city. 

What does it really mean to say that housing can’t be both affordable and an “investment”?

When it comes to the housing crisis, the simple villain narrative is appealing, but will it help us actually see a way out?

Rent control is best viewed as a short-term protection against being priced out of one’s own home, not a scalable affordability policy.

To understand why the suburban experiment struggles today, we have to look at how it first took hold.

The story of a soda fountain in Chugwater, Wyoming.

This is what happens when a city cares more about decades-old requirements than the small businesses trying to bring life to a neighborhood.

"The art of a successful redevelopment project is understanding the regulations and the process for approval of the project."

What a town in Indiana can teach us about bottom-up building.

What if the only way to open your dream cafe involved demolishing half of it?

And how do our aesthetic preferences govern how our neighborhoods evolve.

How should we view ethnic or cultural enclaves in cities?

One thing is clear: if it's going to be our rallying cry, we need to define "affordable."

While other places keep finding ways to say “no” to new housing, this Indiana city is offering pre-approved development templates to small-scale developers at no cost.