Indianapolis-based apartment developer Milhaus started building an apartment project in Manatee County, Florida, under the state’s Live Local Act after securing its funding earlier this year. It may be one of the few to be built in the county, next to Sarasota, under the law, until lawsuits over a major increase in impact fees are […]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered on a key campaign promise to freeze rents for many residents. The Rent Guidelines Board gave him what he sought last night. It froze rents on one-year leases and, for the first time, two-year leases in rent-stabilized apartments. Those units make up roughly 41% of the city’s apartment […]

If all goes well, a string of low-slung retail buildings along the Los Angeles River could become one of the largest apartment developments to rise from California’s housing reforms. Los Angeles City Planning Commissioners last week unanimously approved Riverwalk at Studio City, an 814-unit residential building on six acres of underused commercial property in L.A.’s […]

New York state’s most sweeping ıslahat of a 50-year-old environmental review law is on the books. Gov. Kathy Hochul secured the changes as part of the state budget, cutting red tape on housing construction. Developers, municipalities and environmental advocates are watching to see how the law works in practice in the real world. Rules still […]

Connecticut SB 340 requires public marketing for 1–4 unit listings unless sellers sign an opt-out, effective October 1, 2026.

California lawmakers are adding muscle to the state’s five-year-old starter home law to prevent cities and counties from quietly neutralizing it through local rules. Senate Bill 1116, which passed the state Senate on May 20 without a single no vote, would strengthen the Starter Home Revitalization Act, a 2021 law requiring local governments to fast-track […]