Housing costs are usually the largest item in a household’s budget and can determine a family’s financial stability.

Ten free sessions across Manhattan and Brooklyn on how cities are built, priced, and connected, so the lower-carbon choice becomes the easy one.

Across the country, dead malls remain locked up by decades-old agreements with former anchor tenants.

"Strong reforms are necessary in California if we're going to have public transit agencies that are successful," says this week's guest.

Author Nolan Gray joined state lawmakers and local leaders across Michigan to talk zoning, reform, and what it'll take to fix the housing shortage.

America’s housing debate often treats public opinion as a simple contest between pro-housing reformers and anti-growth opponents. But new polling from the AEI Housing Center suggests a more useful way...

The history of transit ridership in the US is what it is: But it matters enormously how we talk about it.  Many US transit agencies will be facing the voters in the next two years, seeking new funding...

Most large urban areas throughout the US have increased their housing supply near transit over the past four decades, encouraging more residents to live in n…

A step towards more family friendly housing

Which states have VMT mitigation laws, why some efforts have failed, and where VMT mitigation policies could become law.

America's housing and childcare shortages are converging into a single affordability crisis with major macroeconomic consequences.

But some cities with the best opportunity are leaving it on the table.

Two laws signed by Governor Brad Little should boost the supply of starter homes in Idaho, the second-least affordable state in the nation.

Final touches on Spokane’s new 12% parking tax glided through the Spokane City Council Monday night and will take effect next month.

After decades of explosive growth, Austin, Texas, in the 2010s was a victim of its own success. Lured by high-tech jobs and the city’s hip reputation, too many people were competing for too few homes....

If the U.S. wants to remain a nation of homeowners, it has no choice but to start building condos again.

Traffic on several Arlington roads is lower today than decades ago, despite huge increases in density and activity.

Article Summary JB Pritzker will propose a plan during his State of the State address to drastically limit local governments’

After a series of legislative failures, Oregon’s state transportation agency faces a financial crisis that could prompt a rethink of its approach. The situation offers lessons for the nation’s broken ...

The Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown Law made a surprising and contrarian argument in a new paper: adding more homes does not benefit low-income tenants. Three recent separate analyses o...

By rethinking the building code and allowing single-stair apartment buildings, the city made small-lot, mid-rise apartments feasible — and sparked a wider reform movement.

Apartments are safer and more affordable than single-family homes. Why do we treat them like a hazard?

# A pair of bills advancing this week at the state legislature would finally allow Sound Transit to rise above the local permitting fray in several key areas. The reforms could save as much as nine mo...

In most supply-constrained high-cost metropolitan areas across the US, we’re used to seeing only two kinds of multifamily housing projects get built. One is a large building with ample amenities like ...