Eric Adams, Mayor of NYC, has unveiled a plan that could potentially bring 4,000 new homes to the Atlantic Avenue area. The ...
The Biden Administration's recent launch of a comprehensive plan to reduce land use and zoning barriers marks a significant ...
Local Law 97, also known as the Climate Mobilization Act, is a groundbreaking legislation introduced in certain cities in th...
Montana is grappling with a housing crisis as its population surges, leading to skyrocketing prices and a scarcity of afford...
Austin, Texas, is a city that has seen impressive growth in recent years thanks to its thriving tech industry, music scene, ...
As housing costs continue to rise, many cities in the Mountain West region are embracing "Yes in My Backyard" (YIMBY) zoning...
Zoning regulations have long been a contentious issue in urban planning, with debates over how much control cities should ha...
On Monday, October 17, the City Commission of Gainesville, the largest city in North Florida, voted 4-3 to eliminate single-...
The college town of Gainesville, Florida, looks set to pass legislation that would eliminate single-family zoning and pave t...
A recent study by the Manhattan Institute identified six community districts across the city where affordable housing can be...
In 2018, Minneapolis eliminated single-family zoning throughout the city. The effective “ban on single family zoning” was se...
California’s Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, was signed into law in 1970. It made local governments evaluate and disclos...
New York’s “Housing Our Neighbors with Dignity Act” or HONDA, is a law passed last August 2021 that established a fund for t...
The small city of Belfast, Maine, looks set to join
The Connecticut Zoning Atlas is an interactive online map that shows which types of housing is allowed in each town througho...
Efforts to change Atlanta’s zoning codes to allow for more multi-family housing and increase density in order to create more...
A pair of new zoning amendments were introduced by the Pittsburgh City Council recently that would change how the city appro...
The city of Phoenix is the third-fastest growing metro in the country, with a 16% population increase between 2010 and 2019 ...
The California state legislature has recently advanced a bill, SB 9, which would allow all single-family lots across the sta...
New York state’s recent $212 billion budget was recently passed by lawmakers, which includes a provision that will walk back...
The Brooklyn neighborhood of Gowanus will move one step closer to a rezoning overhaul after Judge Katherine Levine decided t...
Local law 160/2017 went into effect on March 1. Originally passed by the city council in 2017, the law states that the Depar...
Sacramento city council passed a reform bill in January which changes zoning laws to allow up to four homes on lots which ha...
The residential tower mechanical voids text amendment was approved in May 2019 in order to address the issue of developers u...
With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing many people to work from home, the number of vacant office spaces in midtown Manhattan ha...
The New York Court of Appeals recently rejected a community coalition’s attempt to block the rezoning of the Inwood neighbor...
In the final debate last week between Donald Trump and Joe Biden,
The Opportunity Zones (OZ) incentive has been put...
Starting Monday, June 8, all New Building and Alterat...
As part of the attempt to dampen the spread of COVID-19 across New York City, Governor Cuomo ordered all non-essential const...
The New York City Council has, as of Februa...
The Housing Bill SB50, intended to solve the housing issue in California by upzoning many building areas in California and c...
In January 2020, Senator of Nebraska Matt Hansen proposed a new bill to support affordable housing market, known as LB 794 o...
The Proposition E ballot is one of the five measures proposed for the election on March 3, 2020, and is about to decide the ...
On December 10, 2019, the city council of NYC passed a bill that will aim to prevent the death of hundreds of thousands of b...
From November 15 onwards, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) introduced Local Law 92 of 2019 and Local Law 94 o...
In November 2019, New York Representative and Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled ...
Picture by Frank Franklin II / AP FILE PHOTO On Tuesday, November 12, Democratic congresswoman Yvette Clarke, introd...
The Supreme Court of the US might test the constitutionality of the inclusionary zoning ordinance in Marin County, Californi...
A new zoning proposal for the city of Des Moines, Iowa, was unanimously accepted by the city’s planning and zoning commissio...
Due to the growth of tourism in New York City, the number of
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Oregon is on the way to major changes on its housing regulations. The new bill approved by the Oregon State House will allow...