Exclusionary Zoning
Linking zoning reform mandates to CDBG funding is not an effective way to change exclusionary zoning.
Brookings
There are signs that politicians at every level are responding to the concerns of renters like never before. If only renter-friendly housing policies were matters of simple consensus.
Brookings
A zoning history dating back to the 19th century still has significant impacts on the city’s housing in the present day.
Collectors Weekly
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has introduced legislation that would tie federal funding to pro-development policies at the local level.
The American Prospect
An op-ed raises a damaging point to counter the California-style progressivism that opposes new housing development: "local control is actually bedrock conservatism."
East Bay Express
Mapping housing production over the decades since the 1960s reveals a pattern that must be shifted to achieve the housing growth needed to face the economic and environmental challenges of the 21st century.
Buildzoom
Exploring the surprising origins of the American suburbs.
Building Suburban Power
Bergen County, New Jersey offers a case study in overcoming decades of illegal and exclusionary zoning practices.
NorthJersey.com
Anoka, Minnesota decided it has enough rental housing.
Star Tribune
An editorial in the New York Times argues that exclusionary zoning reinforces segregation and must be curbed.
The New York Times
The news that the Trump Administration hired a former party planner to oversee HUD's New York and New Jersey office went viral in June. The hire has already had an effect on affordable housing policy in Westchester County, New York.
lohud
Pete Rodrigue pulls from multiple studies, arguing that zoning contributes to an education gap between rich and poor students. Housing costs lie at the heart of the problem.
Greater Greater Washington
The Sightline Institute tackles what may be "our most acute urban public policy challenge."
Sightline Institute
Beware of possible code words like "character" and "flavor" when it comes to community resistance to multifamily housing or increased density. Case in point, Garden City, Long Island.
The New York Times
Blog post
You may not have a moral right to live in an expensive city—but does the government have a moral right to exclude you?
A longtime resident of an old, eclectic neighborhood reflects on what makes the area so desirable and why new places like it are effectively outlawed today.
City Observatory City Commentary
Sixty years after Brown v. Board, exclusionary zoning and school district rules still promote the economic and racial segregation of public schools.
City Observatory
Seattle's recent Housing and Livability Agenda (HALA) recommendations have created a sensational dialogue about zoning, affordability and neighborhood change. Chuck Wolfe explains how this may create an unprecedented basis for consensus in the city.
Crosscut
Blog post
States regulate local governments too much in some areas, but not enough in others.
Blog post
Conservatives and liberals tend to define "racism" very differently. As a result, accusations of racism tend to be unsuccessful outside ideologically homogenous environments.
