Land Use Regulation

Rent Check Kamala Harris's proposal for a renter's tax credit sounds nice, but it fails to address the underlying cause of the housing affordability crisis: artificially restricted supply.   News [...]

Reasonable people can disagree on how to address the housing affordability crisis, but any effective solution must recognize the plain truth that it is primarily a supply- rather than a [...]

Rent Check California Governor Gavin Newsom is playing hardball with NIMBY municipalities by threatening to withhold state revenue for municipalities that fail to meet their housing goals.   News and [...]

Preemption of local zoning regulations by state governments is a good solution to the housing affordability crisis because it prevents neighborhood NIMBYs from setting restrictive zoning codes that hamper development. [...]

Rent Check LA Times editorial board supports Minneapolis 2040 and other initiatives to up zone American cities by doing away with single-family zoning. Utah reform would increase options for municipalities [...]

In November 2018, Amy Liu and Nathan Arnosti of the Brookings Institution wrote on why, rather than focusing on urban growth and density in “superstar” coastal cities (e.g. New York [...]

Minneapolis 2040, perhaps the most expansive comprehensive update to a city’s zoning and land-use regulations in the United States to date, awaits approval from the regional planning agency. The plan [...]

Rent Check San Francisco moves to do away with parking requirements. Update: since this post was written, the proposal was accepted. San Francisco joins Hartford, CT as a major American [...]

Among the lesser known land-use regulations that have serious consequences for density, urban development, and the environment are parking requirements. These regulations do exactly what it sounds like they do. [...]

Rent Check The good folks @YIMBYNeoliberal have released their platform. It's an excellent statement of what good urban policy should be, with something for folks on both the left and [...]