Housing
The complex web of funding behind Wisconsin's largest private affordable housing complex
The 576-unit project offers lessons for other large-scale affordable housing projects.
The Pacific Northwest is an unlikely front in the fight for cooling
A 2021 heat dome killed over 250 people in the Pacific Northwest, bringing into sharp focus the potential of extreme heat to have deadly consequences even in historically cool climates.
This university-owned city block in Chicago has languished for over a decade. Neighbors say it's time to let go
The university never built its planned student housing, letting a row of storefronts sit vacant for years.
Seattle upzoning proposal seeks to boost density, support eco-friendly building materials
A city committee advanced the plan to target areas already open to multifamily development for additional density and encourage passive house and mass timber construction.
New Maryland housing laws protect developers from mid-project rule changes, encourage TOD
The laws allow developers to withhold certain fee payments from cities and counties until projects are underway to prevent delays due to code changes.
Denver starts using AI to speed up housing permits
The CivCheck platform is designed to flag missing or incomplete application items and reduce the time it takes for applications to get approved.
NYC mayor announces plan to repair, restore and build new public housing
Roughly 300,000 New Yorkers live in the city's public housing system.
New HUD guidelines call for nixing green building requirements
The newly released 'best practices' advise local governments to streamline permitting processes, cap permitting fees and encourage by-right development of single-family homes.
Phoenix, Tampa top list of housing markets with the most price cuts
Nearly a third of Phoenix homes for sale had price cuts last April.
Hundreds of affordable homes in the pipeline in Sioux Falls
The city is supporting three projects with no-interest loans.
Report: Massachusetts zoning reform not enough to stimulate ADU production
Massachusetts cities issued over 1,200 applications for ADUs in the last year, short of the Healey administration's goal of 1,600 to 2,000 units per year.
'Missing middle housing' accounted for nearly 20% of Spokane permits in 2025
Recent laws making it easier and less costly to build smaller residential buildings are having their intended effect.
ADUs accounted for 9% of new Maine building permits in 2025
Maine officials approved roughly 500 ADU permits last year.
Austin's building boom fails to reach the poorest residents
Although the city has built thousands of new homes, few of them are available to the lowest-earning households.
Houston Habitat for Humanity builds modular homes in one-third the construction time of traditional houses
The nonprofit known for facilitating affordable homeownership is working to cut costs as traditional construction becomes more expensive.
Lubbock, Texas embraces hotel to housing trend
The new Inn Town Lofts will provide 56 apartments reserved for low-income households with rents as low from $452 per month.
NYC lottery offers chance to buy an apartment for under $7,000
The units are in the Tower Gardens and Carnes McKinney buildings in the Bronx, part of the Mitchell-Lama program.
NYC will create new tax for $1M+ cash home purchases, report says
The new tax, to be detailed in the upcoming budget, comes on the heels of a new "pied-à-terre" tax in the state and city's effort to increase revenue from real estate.
Community land trusts could be the secret to more co-op housing. Just ask Canada.
In Canada, more than half of all housing on community land trusts is cooperative housing. In the U.S., that number is less than 2%. Why?
How a data center derailed $240,000 for affordable housing in rural Maine
In rural Maine, nearly a quarter of a million dollars in federal money earmarked for housing was rescinded from a small town after local officials sought to use the funds for a data center.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA)
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
