NYTIMES (Jane Margolies) - A Homeowner Built Townhouses in a Jersey City Backyard
As YIMBYs and NIMBYs debate where to build housing, a project in Jersey City, N.J. shows how seemingly irreconcilable sides can find common ground.
NYTIMES (Amanda Abrams) - A 22,000-Home Community Is Being Built in a 5,000-Person Town
Chatham Park, a master-planned community in Pittsboro, N.C., is expected to expand the town to 60,000 people when completed.
NYTIMES (Dana Rubinstein) - A Parking Dispute Where the Judges Aren’t Exactly Impartial
A decades-old fight over a parking lot reserved for judges in Brooklyn has picked up steam with a new generation of combatants.
WASHINGTONPOST (Tim Craig) - A town of 7,000 planned so many data centers, it’s like adding 51 Walmarts
Developers plan to build six sprawling data center campuses in Archbald, Pennsylvania, covering about 14 percent of the town’s land. Residents are fighting back.
WASHINGTONPOST (Julie Z. Weil) - He builds affordable tiny houses. The problem is where to put them.
Timbercraft owner Doug Schroeder has a new strategy to help the niche dwellings go mainstream.
YOUTUBE (The Hill) - FL Mom Wakes Up To Find A 5G Cell Tower Inches From Property Line
Lisette Monzon, a Florida mother, woke up to find a 5G cell tower built inches from her property line. She describes the lack of rules and systems in place, and how construction workers destroyed items in her backyard to build the tower overnight. #science #celltower #5g
THEFEDERALIST (Helen Raleigh) - Politicians Think More Zoning Laws Will Fix Housing Prices, But The Data Says Otherwise
Should land-use decisions rest with the families who live there or with politicians pursuing ideological agendas from above?
NPR (Jennifer Ludden) - Bucking stigma, more places turn to factory-built for affordable housing
Mobile homes have long been zoned out of cities and suburbs. But with updated designs and a housing shortage, they're increasingly being welcomed as more-affordable starter homes.
NPR (Jennifer Ludden) - Bucking stigma, more places turn to factory-built for affordable housing
Manufactured homes have long faced stigma and been confined to trailer parks. But with updated designs – and zoning codes – more suburbs and cities are turning to them for affordable housing.
NYTIMES (Mihir Zaveri) - Historic District Rules May Keep NoHo Parking Lot From Becoming Housing
Some residents in the Manhattan neighborhood are fighting the construction of two apartment towers, which could rise up to 19 stories on the site of a parking lot.