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Why M/I Homes is spec-heavy ahead of the spring selling season

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M/I Homes’ Q4 2025 earnings call this week peeled back details on how one of the nation’s top-20 homebuilding enterprises will lean into a contrarian, spec-heavy strategy. Based on the firm’s geographical footprint, product set and construction operational efficiencies, M/I executives are betting a measured spec strategy will pay dividends as homebuilding’s spring selling season […]

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How a state bar filing could derail a California upzoning plan

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The latest “not in my backyard” tactic in California’s local zoning disputes and state housing law battles? Filing a complaint with the state bar association. A case in point: An attorney who failed in an effort to derail a Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., upzoning lodged a complaint with the California State Bar about a March

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Policy clash: how two housing policies blend to price out millions

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It goes with the insanity of today’s U.S. housing affordability crisis that two rights can make a wrong. Two federal policies — each designed to lower the lifetime operating cost of owning a home — can instead combine to raise the barrier to entry so high that millions of households never get through the front

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Samara installs its first modular home for Altadena wildfire victims

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Samara, a California-based manufacturer of accessory dwelling units (ADUs), installed its first modular home for wildfire victims in Altadena, Calif., on Thursday, in partnership with nonprofit organization Steadfast LA.  The installation, which took place last week, is part of a local rebuilding effort in response to the damage caused by the Eaton Fire and Palisades

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California housing reform faces new test as LA Metro resists transit zoning law

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California has become a test lab for housing reform. The state stands as an ongoing experiment-in-process for how far lawmakers will go to legalize the development of more homes and how hard local officials and neighborhood activists will fight to stop it.​​ The latest flashpoint struck on Thursday, as the Los Angeles transit agency board

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KB Home opens new wildfire-resilient community in NorCal hills

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In the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, KB Home has unveiled a fire-resilient new-home subdivision designed and engineered to protect homeowners, buffer neighboring communities and potentially lower property insurance rates.  The homebuilder opened its model home and began selling homes in its 24-lot Stone Canyon community, 30 miles east of Sacramento in the fire-prone

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Digging into how an institutional investor ban would play out

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President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting large institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes has broad – even bipartisan – political appeal. Still, most housing experts doubt that it will exert a significant impact on affordability. The order could also pose risks for builders that have made a practice of selling in bulk to institutional investors

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Providence mulls 4% rent cap as national rent control debate boils

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The rent stabilization bug has hit Providence, RI. Municipal officials there are jumping on the bandwagon with other cities and states whose local officials have adopted or are weighing the policy as a housing affordability strategy.​ Providence City Council President Rachel Miller, alongside council allies, introduced an ordinance this week that would cap most annual

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What D.R. Horton’s dominance means for every U.S. homebuilder

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We’ve said it before. When D.R. Horton reports its quarterly earnings, what you’re watching isn’t just the scoreboard of America’s largest homebuilder. You’re watching a business model operating at a different altitude — and with different oxygen — than almost every other homebuilding enterprise in the country. And when it performs, the implications go far

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Pennsylvania bill targets local curbs on shared housing

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A group of Pennsylvania lawmakers wants to scrap local limits on shared living in a move that could reopen the door to boarding houses, single-room occupancy buildings, and other shared housing statewide.​ House Bill 2109 – with support from seven state legislators signing on sponsor a committee vote – would bar municipalities from using zoning

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