Housing & Urban Policy
Housing and urban policy: the politics, the legislation and what it does to supply. Thesis Driven reports on state pro-housing bills and what they actually delivered, the abundance movement and the backlash to it, preemption fights between states and cities, rent regulation and tenant protection, subsidy and tax policy, court rulings that reset the ground rules, and why affordability keeps outrunning production.
Can Building "Family Friendly" Apartments Make Financial Sense?
A study of the importance - and feasibility - of family-friendly units
Autonomous Vehicles Are a Moral Imperative
Driverless technology is crossing the chasm to must-have while our politicians doze (at best)
The Opportunity in Bankrupt Colleges
US colleges and universities – or at least the bottom half of them – are in for a rough decade. Already facing
How Rate Volatility Broke America's Housing Finance System
A $2 trillion problem hidden in plain sight
What’s Happening in Local Land Use | Q3 2025
Tracking the past three months of notable local land use and zoning decisions
The Most Important Housing Bill You've Never Heard Of
Why Oregon's HB 2258 could be a model for solving the housing crisis
The YIMBY Army Marches
Developers faced with difficult entitlements are increasingly turning to a new ally: housing advocates
