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California court curbs Coastal Commission on building permits

April 23, 2026 by bp56691

A California home builder sought to build three additional houses on lots it had owned for more than two decades in a coastal county. That should have been easy. It had already built four nearby homes. But it wasn’t. Years of court hearings followed when a state agency overrode San Luis Obispo County’s authority and […]

Kentucky housing reform bill collapses in final hours

April 16, 2026 by bp56691

Kentucky’s failure shows how difficult housing politics remain even as other states manage to pass modest reforms.

California lawmakers weigh state-backed loans for downtown housing towers

April 14, 2026 by bp56691

Assembly Bill 2074, dubbed the Downtown Revitalization Act, would ease approvals and offer state-backed, low-interest financing near major transit hubs.

Virginia cities gain new tools to increase affordable housing supply

April 10, 2026 by bp56691

Virginia law lets every locality adopt voluntary inclusionary zoning, density bonuses, ADUs and trust-fund fee options.

Virginia YIGBY bill puts Spanberger housing agenda on the line

April 9, 2026 by bp56691

Spanberger faces pressure from local governments and a small but vocal group of civic organizations to veto the bill, extending the fight after they failed to stop it in the state’s General Assembly.

Minimum residential lot size dispute heats up in a Texas county

April 8, 2026 by bp56691

A battle has brewed over residential lot sizes in Texas after Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law last year reducing them in the state’s biggest cities. Since the law didn’t apply statewide, Montgomery County, which abuts Houston, is trying again to increase its lot sizes after doing so last March. County planners say the increase […]

California steps up reform to join the single-stair bandwagon

April 7, 2026 by bp56691

California lawmakers have been at the forefront of zoning reforms to increase housing supply and affordability. New legislation filed Tuesday would put the state on the path to joining single-stair reform that other states and cities have already adopted. Assemblymember Alex Lee’s newly filed bill proposes increasing housing construction by reforming California’s building code to […]

NYC builds taller housing again, as state, city law reset the stage

April 3, 2026 by bp56691

New York City is increasing housing density, though much of the early progress stems from state law changes and rezonings that predate Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration. Those moves are now starting to show up in steel and concrete, even as Mamdani advances his own housing agenda. The clearest example is in Midtown South. City officials […]

Austin council pushes new zoning laws for missing middle housing

March 30, 2026 by bp56691

Austin city lawmakers bent on ensuring the Texas capital sustains momentum in a housing supply expansion that cuts into a home shortage and slows price growth took another step last week. Thursday, the Austin City Council approved a new package of land-use changes that would accelerate construction of missing-middle housing types such as duplexes, fourplexes […]

Spanberger’s Virginia housing agenda falls short on local pushback

March 18, 2026 by bp56691

New Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s first-year housing agenda delivered new money and new tools for affordable housing preservation, but it fell short on the package’s biggest supply-side proposal: a statewide push to allow multifamily housing by right in many commercially zoned areas. A pair of bills would have required local zoning codes to allow multifamily […]