Category Archives: Press

Missing Middle Housing (MMH) Interim Ordinance Passed!

America’s housing problem—and what to do about it

If you want to govern the nation, you should first be able to govern San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles.

West Berkeley’s sizable supply of lab space could soon grow by another quarter of a million square feet.

Burlingame-based Woodstock Development filed a preapplication with Berkeley Monday to build a 247,647-square-foot research and development space at 600 Bancroft Way by the Aquatic Park.

Since the mid-2000s, Nashville, Tennessee, has undergone a housing boom that created thousands of new homeownership opportunities in established urban districts. Among the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas, Nashville now ranks second for having the most recently built, single-family, attached and detached homes for sale within five miles of the central business district.

President Javier Milei’s fiscal ‘shock therapy’ yields lower rents overall, but some people feel squeezed

For months, I’ve been saving up clippings for a memo on the above topic, but favorite subjects such as risk, debt, and uncertainty repeatedly jumped the queue, delaying my intended memo until the U.S. election season got into full swing, making it compelling.

On September 19, the AEI Housing Center hosted a premiere of its nine-minute documentary on light-touch density (LTD): The Forgotten Solution to the Housing Crunch. The documentary highlighted Charlotte, North Carolina, and explained how LTD can create housing abundance by legalizing small-scale residential development that is compatible with single-family detached neighborhoods.

Many tiny-home companies are promising a crisis solution and angling for big government contracts. One is being scrutinized by the FBI in Oakland.