Category Archives: Press

The design will be allowed again for smaller projects, as long as developers include other safety features.

One perverse way to think about development is that it is a tool to transfer costs away from people who don’t want to pay for stuff to people who don’t know they’re paying for stuff.

Cambridge is one of many local communities that require most new housing developments to include units set aside at below-market rents — in its case, 20 percent of the building, which is among the highest rates in Greater Boston — with the intention of creating more affordable homes in a city that is starved for them…..Put another way, a policy aimed at generating affordable housing may actually be preventing it.

I’ve been writing Construction Physics since September of 2020. Over the past four and a half years I’ve written 186 essays, totalling around 600,000 words.

Seven of the top 10 cities with the highest share of micro-housing are in the West — led by San Francisco. Roughly 15% of the local housing stock in San Francisco consists of apartments smaller than 415 square feet.

Austin City Council members approved a code amendment that allows more units to be built using only one central staircase. Advocates of “single stair” housing say it will create more flexibility in how smaller complexes are built, making them more affordable.

You wake up in a 3rd world jail cell. You’re only allowed to call one person you know to get you out of there. Who do you call?

“Too many goods created a bad.”

That’s how California Governor Jerry Brown put it in 2017 when he signed a package of 15 housing-related bills, the first YIMBY-supported pro-housing bills.

In a litigation result that will have a number of positive consequences for developers and housing advocates, the City of La Canada Flintridge (“City”) last week moved to dismiss its appeal of a closely-watched “Builder’s Remedy” case.

The Micro Housing Market has been fragmented based on the productivity of several companies; therefore, each segment and its sub-segments are analyzed in the research report. Furthermore, the report offers 360 views on historical and upcoming growth based on volume, value, production, and consumption