A new California law overrides local regulations to provide multifamily housing around transit corridors. Can it succeed in finally getting much-needed housing built? And is sprawl really such a bad thing?
Cities are banning landlords from setting rental prices based on algorithms and non-public data, which tenants complain have led to drastic spikes.
A survey shows that more than half of manufactured homeowners on rented land have no lease.
Hoping to spur more progress toward his 35,000 starter home goal, Gov. Spencer Cox unveiled a dashboard that highlights where affordable homes are — and aren’t — being built.
The largest affordability gaps are in California, Hawaii, Idaho, Massachusetts and Montana, where middle-income households can afford fewer than 12 percent of houses on the market. By contrast, they could afford about half the houses for sale in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and West Virginia.
The plug was pulled five years ago on a Google plan to build a digitally connected neighborhood in Toronto. The innovative opportunities it suggested — and the privacy questions it raised — have not gone away.
The cities contend that new laws and an executive order meant to encourage housing development take away local control.
Most of the people who show up are there to say no to any kind of denser development. Is it worth trying to get broader public participation?
The Montana Legislature passed housing policies that have eluded other jurisdictions, including increasing height limits, reducing parking requirements and permitting single-stair apartment buildings.
A bill would allow local governments to devote up to a quarter of their homeless funds to residential programs that practice sobriety.
They help a lot of individuals and their communities. The proposed cuts would just shift the burden to emergency rooms, shelters and already overwhelmed local systems.
Rent increases will be limited to 10 percent per year, with an exemption for newly built units for a dozen years.
The “No Buddy Left Behind” program employs veterans to find and then help house homeless veterans.
The city’s total homeless population is declining, but the number of homeless children has reached record highs. The number of homeless schoolchildren has doubled in the last five years.
Matt Privratsky was appointed to serve as an interim city council member in St. Paul after the previous member resigned. He’ll cast some consequential votes.
A pair of bills that would encourage construction are moving through the state Senate despite the opposition of key committee chairs.
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