Zoning reform had a great year in 2021, with cities, states, and even an entire country passing laws that peel back restrictions on new housing construction. That should come as welcome news to the ...

On the edge of the Vaca Mountains west of Sacramento, construction crews are digging utility trenches for dozens of new homes in a subdivision in the Yolo County city of Winters. A small fraction of ...

WASHINGTON — The enduring image of the American Dream is owning a tidy single-family house behind a white picket fence in the suburbs. But for many people of color and low-income earners, that part of ...

Fixing a calculation error in a leading academic article on the subject shows that zoning has a far bigger negative impact on the economy than was previously realized ...

Cities and towns wield a powerful toolto control their built environment, dictating what can go where within their borders: zoning. It’s why you can’t just open up a laundromat in your garage — some ...

Despite a zoning code overhaul that effectively abolished single-family zoning in 2020, Olympia saw little to no growth in development of missing middle housing in the year since. The city permitted ...

John Fazio, a farmer in Plattekill, tried to open a campground on his property last year but was stopped by the town's engineer, who invoked a zoning law that passed in 2021 that wasn't publicly ...