Portland Metro Chamber的动态

Broken City is the best book I've yet read on how to create more affordable housing in complex, urban environs. patrick condon's book takes a systems approach. Well researched; evidence-based. Focus is on reducing land price. Onus is placed on municipalities to implement policies and zoning; eg overlay zoning.

To my Floridian friends, Here is a good article about the new Live Local act and the dynamics between the Florida Legislature and local municipalities. This will indeed impact every one of us: https://lnkd.in/gMZAUkJA

What will be the fate of the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity amidst the current political uncertainty? Check out our latest piece in the NYLJ to hear our thoughts! Jodi Siegel Stein #cityofyes #nyc #development #realestate #zoning #landuse #housingopportunity #nycdevelopment #nycrealestate

The New York State FY 2025 budget legislation recently eliminated the “12 FAR” cap for #residential buildings, allowing the FAR for residential uses on a #zoning lot to exceed 12 for the first time since the New York City Zoning Resolution was adopted in 1961. Learn more about the #legislation and how it relates to the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity text amendments:

Does allowing municipalities to create inclusionary zoning actually help with housing affordability or make it worse? I've argued that it benefits a very small number while hurting everyone else. Maybe now is the time to revisit this in BC. How about * not * including inclusionary zoning in the new ACC rules? Here is an article that looks at the pros and cons of inclusionary zoning: https://lnkd.in/gVsSFPXR

Work on a target of 1.5m new homes over the coming parliament is already under way with the restoration of mandatory housebuilding targets, a new National Planning Policy Framework, a review of the green belt and the identification of sites for a new crop of new towns all on the agenda for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government under Angela Rayner. But there are still major obstacles in the way of those 1.5m homes, not least that governments have never delivered so many without a major investment in council housing, and planning reform alone will not be enough to make homes more affordable. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

progress is slow

SOLVING THE HOUSING CRISIS While nobody wants to live next to a hog farm and while zoning can help avoid that problem, zoning has often been used to exclude people from housing and business opportunities based on race and class. Fortunately, meaningful zoning reform is gaining traction. These zoning reforms could be even more meaningful if coupled with a land value return tax shift. For example, say that Town A wants to increase the housing supply in a particular neighborhood and increases the allowable density. In theory, allowing more people to share the cost of the land would create more affordability. But, in reality, increasing the density causes land prices to rise, thereby defeating some or all of the desired affordability benefit. However, if land value return was enhanced, then publicly-created land values would be returned to the community instead of becoming windfalls for private landowners. This would help keep land prices down and thereby ensure a more robust affordability benefit from reformed zoning.

In this blog post, I highlight the key pieces of current and upcoming legislation on the docket for 118th Congress. While?communities?and states are finding innovative ways to address the nation's?housing deficit, partners in Congress and the Biden administration can do more to spur housing production through federal action on zoning reform — APA's 2024?policy priority. #ItTakesAPlanner

5 Zoning reforms every planner should know and every community should get behind, if we want to ensure planning is effectively using its levers to better support housing affordability, diversity, innovation, inclusion and sustainability. My favourites - the Yes In My Back Yard Act, the more Housing near Transit Act and the Yes in Faith’s Back Yard Act - of course. If the USA can get behind what is fast becoming popular bi-partisan housing policy, can we? YIMBY Qld #housing #affordability #inclusion #innovation #sustainability