The city will provide new technical and financial support to homeowners who want to build accessory dwelling units ADUs on their properties, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to announce Tuesday. ADUs, or so-called granny flats, are independent residences on the same lot as one-family or two-family homes, and depending on location are also called in-law suites, backyard cottages or basement apartments.
The new THUD bill builds on the work we accomplished last cycle to ensure our nation's transportation and housing infrastructure and programs best serve the needs of the American people, said U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, who chairs the THUD subcommittee. Whether it be in the sky or along our waterways, rail lines and highways, this bill supports the safe, efficient and reliable movement of people and goods nationwide. It also invests in housing and wraparound services for our nation's most vulnerable such as women, children, and veterans while advancing policies that make housing more affordable for all Americans.
Chow said Moscoe’s key passion was building a vibrant public transit infrastructure and promoting ridership growth. She added that he read virtually every City Council and TTC report and had an encyclopaedic memory of their content, bringing it to Council and TTC meetings. She also said he advocated for WheelTrans and taxi drivers and supported giving the province control of the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway.
Florida is a noteworthy example. State leaders amended the state's 2023 Live Local Act for the third time this year. New Hampshire lawmakers are now revisiting a housing law passed last year. Housing advocates say the pattern of amendments is not evidence of flawed laws. They argue it reflects the reality that state preemption of local zoning authority requires continuous revision when local governments treat each new restriction as a puzzle to be solved in reverse.
HUD's new State and Local Best Practices for Home Construction report offers a set of recommended policy changes that target permitting fees, building codes, land-use limits and inspection timelines that add costs and risks to new-home projects.
Last July, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a landmark law shielding apartment and residential projects from lengthy environmental review processes to boost the state's housing supply and improve affordability. It's working but not without a fight. Developers wasted no time seizing the opportunity. A growing list of housing developments are securing exemptions from reviews under the 1970 California Environmental Quality Act, which environmentalists and not-in-my-backyard groups used to stall or stop projects.
For more than two decades, Chattanooga has used payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements to reshape its downtown. But the tax-break tool that once helped fill the Tennessee River city with market-rate apartments has been retooled for a different purpose: mixing affordable and market-rate units. City officials say seven of every 10 renters are either rent-burdened or severely rent-burdened.
One week ahead of its opening in Baku, the thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13) will bring together architects, planners, policymakers, and researchers under the theme “Housing the World: Safe and Resilient Cities and Communities,” focusing on housing insecurity, climate adaptation, governance, and inclusive urban development. Taking place at the midpoint of the implementation of the New Urban Agenda, the forum expands the discussion of housing beyond construction alone, framing it as a critical component of environmental, economic, and social resilience.
That provision, Section 901, would ban institutional investors that own 350 or more single-family homes from purchasing additional single-family properties, other than manufactured housing. On a more controversial note, while it would provide an exemption for build-to-rent (BTR) communities, it would mandate that new BTR communities be sold to individual homeowners within seven years. Industry stakeholders say that the uncertainty caused by Section 901 has largely frozen capital flow into new BTR construction.
The publication of the 1926 census last month showed just how common it was to rent out a spare room to a stranger, from Dublin households taking in culchies moving up to the Big Smoke to seek work to rural homes accepting 'paying guests' such as farm labourers or travelling salesmen.
The bipartisan Starter Homes Act would loosen local mandates on minimum lot sizes, parking and design requirements, and require cities to allow duplexes, triplexes, and accessory dwelling units in more neighborhoods.
The biggest winners from the Conservatives' help to buy scheme were high-earners who were already likely to buy a house, with the top 10% of earners receiving the largest cash benefit.
