Housing + Cities
How Parking Ratios Kill Homes
A string of mistakes in one city shows how easily local rules can turn arbitrary and destructive.
Micro-housing: It’s Not about the Size but How You Use It
And the National Healthy Housing Standard agrees.
Recent Reforms Could Make a Real Neighborhood of Downtown Anchorage
A vibrant downtown needs residents. And residents need housing. Convenience stores wouldn’t hurt either.
Learning from the Least Housed
A case for agile, self-build, and bottom-up options to unlock housing choice… by many means necessary.
Four Ways to Improve Portland’s Housing Affordability Mandate
Small changes could fully fund the program and produce many more affordable homes in desirable areas.
From Vermont to Oklahoma, Legislatures Challenge Parking Mandates
Proposals to reduce overbuilt parking lots are popping up across the United States.
Parking Mandates Are Vanishing Across Oregon
Six months into the pioneering state policy, regulatory costs are falling and projects are springing to life.
Boise Poised for First Step Towards More Abundant, Affordable Housing
The new zoning code legalizes more types of housing but creates new barriers to abundance.
Getting Beyond the Detached House in Vancouver, BC
How a flexible “Plex” design could add lower-cost homes, green space, and walkable, vibrant neighborhoods—fast—across housing-strapped cities.
Oregon’s Untapped Gold Mine: The Homes that Don’t Yet Exist
To reduce housing shortages, small doses of cash could get many projects built. A bill introduced in Oregon this year suggests a clever place to find it.