The housing crisis is hitting small, rural towns—often in even more stark and dire ways than in urban areas.
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SB 9 just passed in California, effectively ending single-family zoning there. The open question is, "What now?" Will anything actually change?
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Utah, like many places, has an affordable housing crisis. These 5 strategies can deliver solutions…for Utah and beyond.
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Are we treating the symptoms of the housing crisis, or the underlying disease?
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Three housing stories that got our attention in 2019, and the lessons we should take from each one.
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Affordable housing shortages in California (and other states) are worsened by a go-big-or-go-home model of development: we throw up so many barriers in the face of incremental change that the only building projects that remain viable are huge, complicated ones with many possible points of failure.
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Google wants to dedicate $1 billion to creating housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is a big enough number to make a real dent, but will it help tackle the systemic issues driving the region’s housing crisis?
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How is it possible that so many of our cities are seeing their footprints grow, but their populations shrink? The answer to this paradox might surprise you.
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Incremental development doesn’t mean slow development. Here’s how big places that need housing fast can get there using the Strong Towns approach.
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We need to solve our housing affordability problems, but not by ignoring context and embracing “orderly but dumb” means.
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Where is Austin supposed to put 135,000 new homes in ten years? The city posed the question. Diametrically opposed groups of residents could not come close to agreeing on the answer.
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Could a new type of municipal bond help renters and homeowners find common ground in their housing priorities?
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Housing policy is a difficult puzzle because we want it to accomplish so many competing objectives simultaneously.
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It's only a matter of time before California finds itself in another bust cycle, where the emergency of rising prices gives way to the catastrophe of falling prices—where the manic cycle ends and the depressive cycle begins.
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The Big Short describes the insanity of the subprime mortgage crisis from the perspective of those that discovered it early and bet against it; the short sellers.
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