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The road to more housing still runs through permitting
Cato argues that the 21st Century Road Housing Act could speed housing by tying federal transportation dollars to local zoning and permitting reform.
A bipartisan housing bill clears the House, but the Senate test still matters
Fox News reported on a 396–13 House vote for a bipartisan housing reform bill that aims to cut barriers, boost supply, and lower costs.
How the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit turns tax liability into apartment capital
The LIHTC uses federal tax credits to attract private capital into rent-restricted housing, with state agencies allocating credits under income and rent rules.
Washington’s scissor stair reform shows how code fixes can unlock more homes
Washington enacted the nation’s first statewide scissor stair reform, a small but meaningful building code change that could lower costs and improve apartment design.
Waters and Warren split on housing strategy, even as both want a win
Politico reports that Elizabeth Warren and Maxine Waters diverged over a housing bill’s investor limits and deregulation, exposing Hill-to-Hill dysfunction.
Treasury's Section 901 implementation Q&A — initial read.
Treasury's first Section 901 implementation Q&A clarifies the seven-year disposition clock starts at certificate of occupancy. The harder questions — single-plat communities, refinance triggers, affiliated-entity treatment — wait for later guidance.
Housing Shortage Isn't Just a Money Problem
Politico examined how federal housing policy aimed at limiting institutional investors may be constraining capital and slowing new housing production, raising concerns about unintended consequences for supply.
The Fix Is on the Table
Homefront briefing on Section 901, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and the targeted fix needed to protect new housing production.
Residential transition lending is becoming housing finance infrastructure
Urban finds residential transition lending has grown into an $85 billion market that can finance infill construction, rehabs, and small-scale housing supply.
The Market Isn't Waiting
Homefront briefing on federal housing policy, market behavior, and what uncertainty means for what gets built.
The Supply Bill That Reduces Supply
Homefront briefing on federal housing policy and what the build-to-rent restriction could mean for housing supply.
Why Limiting Investment Time Horizons for Build-to-Rent Communities is Bad for Affordable Housing
I explain why treating purpose-built rental neighborhoods like scattered investor-owned homes risks shrinking the capital stack behind new housing supply.
Federal Housing Policy and the States
Remarks at the Council of State Governments East housing event on the emerging federal housing supply agenda, what is moving in Congress, and why state action remains decisive.
Housing Needs a System That Can Deliver
Remarks on why America's housing shortage is a systems problem, how fragmented governance produces underbuilding, and why a modern housing framework is needed to align local action, state capacity, federal investment, and accountability.
We Didn't Just Price Out Renters. We Priced Out the Ability to Build.
How regulation, delay, and rising development costs turned a housing affordability crisis into a breakdown in the basic ability to build — and where that leaves federal policy.
Housing Isn't Just an Affordability Crisis
America's housing shortage is not just about affordability. It is a production failure with consequences for public health, equity, transportation, and economic opportunity.
Is Congress Having Its YIMBY Moment?
Semafor examined the growing bipartisan federal agenda around housing supply, including proposals aimed at reducing barriers to development and rewarding local reform.
The Housing Shortage Isn't Just a Coastal Crisis Anymore
The New York Times examined how the housing shortage had spread well beyond high-cost coastal metros, drawing on Up for Growth's analysis to show underproduction as a national constraint.
There's a Massive Housing Shortage Across the U.S. Here's How Bad It Is Where You Live
NPR examined the scale of the national housing shortage, drawing on Up for Growth's analysis to show a deficit of millions of homes and the pressure it creates for prices, affordability, and access.
Housing Is Where Jobs Go to Sleep at Night
Why economic development policy is increasingly intertwined with housing — how a nationwide shortage of homes became a drag on jobs, GDP, and regional competitiveness, and the local barriers most responsible for it.
The American Housing Crisis Might Be Our Next Big Political Issue
Bloomberg CityLab examined the growing effort to make housing affordability and underproduction a national policy issue, including Up for Growth's early work on housing supply.
Just How Widespread Is the Housing Shortage?
The Wall Street Journal examined how broadly the housing shortage extends across the country, drawing on Up for Growth's early work on underproduction and the consequences of failing to build enough homes.
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