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Austin council pushes new zoning laws for missing middle housing

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Austin city lawmakers bent on ensuring the Texas capital sustains momentum in a housing supply expansion that cuts into a home shortage and slows price growth took another step last week. Thursday, the Austin City Council approved a new package of land-use changes that would accelerate construction of missing-middle housing types such as duplexes, fourplexes […]

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Newsom warns cities of lawsuits over California SB 79 law

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening legal action against cities and counties that do not comply with a 2025 housing reform law that allows higher density near public transit. During a Wednesday press conference, Newsom said his administration has warned 15 cities and counties that they have 30 days to comply with Senate Bill 79

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Arizona housing reform push would curb HOA, design mandates

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After failing to turn starter-home legislation into law, Arizona lawmakers are advancing two bills that would curb local control over design standards, homeowners associations and contractor licensing – a renewed attempt to chip away at costs amid the state’s housing shortage. Lawmakers are close to passing a measure that would strip municipalities of much of

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Austin housing reforms could influence Michigan legislation

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Michigan housing advocates are pointing to Austin, Texas, as they try to build support for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s “grand bargain” housing affordability agenda in the state Legislature. Advocates say a multi-year set of zoning, permitting and code reforms in Austin helped drive a surge in homebuilding – and that the resulting increase in supply coincided

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Spanberger’s Virginia housing agenda falls short on local pushback

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New Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s first-year housing agenda delivered new money and new tools for affordable housing preservation, but it fell short on the package’s biggest supply-side proposal: a statewide push to allow multifamily housing by right in many commercially zoned areas. A pair of bills would have required local zoning codes to allow multifamily

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California transit agency land could support 240,000 homes

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California lawmakers have spent years passing bills aimed at increasing housing supply, with an emphasis on building more homes near transit. A new analysis from Enterprise Community Partners finds that transit agencies across the state own thousands of parcels that could, in theory, be used for housing – a potential lever as the state tries

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Wyoming refund exposes legal risk for local housing fee ordinances

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Small wins on impact fees occasionally occur in costly U.S. housing markets. Teton County, Wyoming, officials agreed last week to refund a $24,325 “affordable workforce housing” fee that a homeowner had to pay to obtain a permit to build a single-family home. The payment settles a lawsuit the homeowner filed last year in a Wyoming

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Housing muni market swells amid affordability policy debate

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Financing affordable housing development – typically for lower-income households – is one of the most challenging matters in real estate. Making the economics work on a deal requires layered “hard and soft” funding sources as developers navigate rising costs, policy instability, and structural gaps in the subsidy system. The process is so complicated that professionals

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Trump executive order targets regulatory barriers to homebuilding

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The White House announced on Friday afternoon its effort to challenge what it calls “unnecessary regulatory barriers” to homebuilding by issuing a broad executive order to reduce environmental, permitting and programmatic restrictions that federal officials say are contributing to the nation’s housing affordability crisis. The order, signed by Donald Trump, directs multiple federal agencies to

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Mortgage groups split after Senate passes housing bill

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The Senate this morning passed a version of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, earning generally positive reviews from the mortgage industry, though some trade groups raised concerns about what the bill includes and what needs to be changed.  Processing Content Passage of the bill was overwhelming with 89 votes in favor to just

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