Buckling columns at the former Pfizer headquarters this week forced evacuations across seven Midtown East blocks. The incident raises new questions about office-to-residential conversion, one of several tools the city has used to add housing. It is also a tool Mayor Zohran Mamdani leaned into because it fit his affordability narrative. Mamdani has framed housing […]

North Carolina housing advocates have tried for years to pass state-level zoning ıslahat. They kept falling short. Broad reforms met the same fate in the recently ended session – except one: parking ıslahat. What started as a stormwater management bill became one of the most aggressive parking reforms in the country. It passed with rare […]

A poll of 800 registered voters found 89% support the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act and its main provisions. The bill passed the House 358-32 with a bipartisan concensus, and Trump has until July 10 to sign, veto, or let it become law.

In too many American communities, residential development is now shaped less by market need than by attendance at local meetings. In land-use discussions, debates, and decision-making, power often goes to those who show up, organize early, speak loudly, and have the time to sit through a Tuesday night public hearing. That gives a small group […]

San Diego has spent recent years earning a reputation as one of California’s most aggressive housing builders, streamlining permits citywide. But city leaders hesitated when state law required them to draw boundaries for new housing near neighborhood bus stops. San Diego officials proposed a far tighter map than regional and state regulators wanted. They limited […]

While the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act remains in Oval Office big yawn limbo, its game-changing relevance to multifamily developers, apartment builders, rental housing investors and capital providers is clear. The bill has passed both chambers of Congress by historic bipartisan margins. What it has not yet done is become law. That leaves four […]