With zoning-reform fever sweeping local governments, state legislatures, and even Congress, there is an urgent push to understand exactly how zoning works. Unfo

Empirical research on land use regulation has a credibility problem. For two decades, studies linking regulation to housing costs, residential segregation, and

America needs more homes in the right places. That means fixing zoning.

The National Zoning Atlas (NZA) tracks the way zoning treats minimum lot sizes across thousands of jurisdictions. Learn more about what minimum lot sizes are and what the NZA has discovered to date ab...

Before Illinois overhauls zoning laws through Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s BUILD housing plan, lawmakers should first understand how local zoning rules actually restrict housing development, the founder of th...

Transportation law has a congestion problem—at least for innovative, locally driven projects that aim to reduce driving. The legal battles over congestion...

Documents obtained by Arizona’s Family Investigates this week outline the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars converting and operating a warehouse into a 1,...

For over a century, the Yale Law Journal has been at the forefront of legal scholarship, sparking conversation and encouraging reflection among scholars and students, as well as practicing lawyers and...

GREAT PODCAST! There is political urgency in the Housing Crisis: There is academic fascination with Urban Design: There is popular cultural obsession with Community Building. But the basic directio…

Help Us Make Land Use Data Actionable and Accessible! We’re building the National Zoning Atlas and National Preservation Atlas to make information about the land use rules that shape our communities a...

Explore the National Zoning Atlas Media Resources page to learn how reporters can access data, reports, and visuals to support accurate reporting on how zoning shapes housing, land use, and communitie...

The Virginia Zoning Atlas is a project of the National Zoning Atlas, which aims to digitize, demystify, and democratize information about zoning conditions in more than 30,000 U.S. jurisdictions. The ...

Sara C. Bronin, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World (2024).Ezra RosserProfessor Sara Bronin’s book, Key to the City, pulls back the curtain on how urban zoning works. And through in-depth cit...

I spoke with Professor Sara Bronin to learn about zoning: what is it, what is its purpose, and how does it work.  Link to her book on bookshop:  Link to her website tool to learn about zonin...

"Zoning Snapshots" summarize data collected by the National Zoning Atlas team - and can be generated by the user for every jurisdiction, county, or metropolitan area covered by the NZA.

What does zoning reform have the power to change?

The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.

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The New Mexico Zoning Atlas is a project of the National Zoning Atlas, which aims to digitize, demystify, and democratize information about zoning conditions in more than 30,000 U.S. jurisdictions. In...

Gov. Jared Polis' recent executive order tying grants to compliance with statewide housing goals is the latest chapter in Colorado’s ongoing saga to address its housing affordability crisis.

A Houston-born expert on urban planning expert says it's time for Houston to rethink the z-word.