Category Archives: Press

For a century, progressives have been making it harder to build new homes in prosperous areas. Workers, immigrants and the economy pay the price.

The oldest baby boomers turn 80 in less than a year, and the senior housing market is moving from glut to shortage

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

The political psychology of opposition to new housing

Housing costs– to buy or to rent– have far outpaced income growth. As a share of our income, we’re now spending more on housing than at any other point since World War II. But it seems like every time we try to build more housing it’s a million-dollar condo or upscale townhouse with luxury finishes. It’s not affordable. So what actually happens when we build that expensive housing– and can it do anything for affordability?

Cities should do what they can to allow the smallest of interventions.

Using beamless mass timber and vertical integration to achieve double-digit construction cost savings

Reflections on visiting San Francisco and the current political landscape

Theater preservationists are considering an appeal to the Berkeley City Council in hopes of blocking the project.

In one of the first legislative exactions opinions issued since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, the New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division just struck down a provision of New York City’s rezoning plan that would have imposed “Arts Fund” fees on certain landowners.