Researchers from the University of California Los Angeles and California State Northridge used a set of mathematical and statistical models to explain how improving bureaucratic processes in building departments could have outsized effects on increasing the rate of housing development.
Read MoreAt the Davos of the Midwest, a.k.a. Mackinac Policy Conference 2024, policymakers and other stakeholders put their heads together to figure out how we can make housing more affordable. It’s one of the first times that such a powerful and visible group of people have discussed the issue in Michigan.
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Grand Rapids, the clean-cut, straight-laced, kinda conservative cousin of Detroit from farm country, just passed a groundbreaking zoning reform package. Will Detroit follow suit?
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Keep Austin weird? Or, “keep Austin’s built environment thoroughly eclectic and its infrastructure slightly dysfunctional”? Lessons from the first YIMBYTown conference in the Lone Star State.
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Windsor, Ontario is fighting the federal government’s housing plan in order to “protect the character of the neighborhood.”
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If you, like me, are a part-time transplant resident of the District of Columbia– and are a policy nerd, no
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