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A network of local organizations working to fix the US housing shortage. Our members win pro-housing policy change. We can help you do the same. Also, memes.
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We need a lot more than 38,000 affordable rental units over the next 10 years (like literally millions more), but every home counts and every policy change that empowers more homes to be built is a step in the right direction. 👏
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Exclusionary zoning is preventing residents of “the worst state for renters” from finding a home & entrenching old patterns of segregation. Connecticut’s leaders should listen to DesegregateCT to right the ship and unlock a pro-homes, post-sprawl future.
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Our “unprecedented” affordability crisis is hitting renters the hardest. We need to build a lot more homes. Like, yesterday.
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… or, hear us out, we could build more homes?
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One of the cooler (pun intended) takeaways from this series is that better land use policies can improve the popularity of climate policies — even across party lines!
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After inflation, there’s one thing on everyone’s minds: HOUSING. It’s too expensive and hard to come by.
How we fix it: “The foremost tactic that has worked has been to make it easy to build apartments near commerce or near transit.” video.whyy.org/video/housin...
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Renters want to move to cities where housing is affordable? Who knew? 😮⁉️
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Big WIN for housing in Alaska! Anchorage just legalized up to 3 homes on every residential lot citywide — and without parking mandates. 🔥🔥🔥 Congrats to Anchorage Housing Club & their coalition!
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City of Yes is helping New Yorkers make it there and make it anywhere. These new reforms will create meaningful work nearer to where folks live. That’s great news! 🙌
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❗91%❗ of adult Gen Zers said housing affordability is an important factor when they cast their ballots. If any politicians are listening, fixing housing policy would be a smart electoral strategy.
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Idk, feels like “affordable housing” should include housing that is more affordable. www.ocregister.com/2024/06/25/l...
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“the ratio of the median single-family home sale price to household income — a good proxy for tracking nationwide home affordability — is 7.68 to 1, an all-time record.” 🤯
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Montgomery County, MD just took another big step toward eliminating single family zoning. This would be a huge win at a time when prices are soaring.
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This year, the Colorado Legislature and Gov. Polis took major steps to allow abundant homes and improve transit to respond to climate change. That’s leadership.
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Build more homes, keep more teachers. Makes sense to us. 🏫🏘️
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Governors of states where housing costs are rising rapidly are doing this one crazy thing to bring down costs: Making it easier to build more homes.
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“Housing is everything. Well it’s not everything, but if you were to pick a single aspect of the economy that has the biggest effect on people’s lives and that drives their perception of the economy more than anything else, the answer would be: housing.”
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Building more market-rate homes triggers a chain of moves that results in greater mobility across income levels and more affordable openings for renters in low-income neighborhoods. Build more homes.
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More affordable homes on the market means more opportunity for American families. This is good news.
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Want to improve school integration? Time to think about housing. “... our existing neighborhoods produce school systems that mirror housing segregation. Where families live shapes their educational opportunities.”
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One thing most of us have in common: the rent is too damn high. The good news is we know how to fix it.
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"More compact cities have a lot less driving than suburbs. Apartment buildings use a lot less energy than single family homes. Keeping development in cities protects rural areas and keeps them sequestering carbon." 💯
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Proposals from Desegregate CT would have helped “meet the moment” in Connecticut’s housing crisis, but lawmakers let the clock run out. Time management is a bad excuse for inaction while housing costs soar.
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If you have to choose between space for cars and homes for people, you should choose homes every time.
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More people living next to the things that matter the most in their lives. This is the way.
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The housing crisis has been worsening for so long, it’s hard to imagine anything else. But it wasn’t always like this, and we’re fighting to make sure it isn’t like this in the future.
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Faced with a housing crisis the likes of which was previously seen only in coastal cities, Colorado took major steps this session to right the ship and become a “national leader” on housing policy. 🏆
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2024 has brought unprecedented victories for pro-housing policies. This playbook might have seemed pie-in-the-sky before. Not anymore.
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@ravenscimaven.bsky.social’s story is a stark reminder that racism still stands in the way of finding a home for many —whether blatant like this or embedded in policies like exclusionary zoning.
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“In reality, the government should not be in the business of telling you who is worthy of living next to you based on whether they share your last name." 🔥
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New Jersey, where exclusionary zoning was deemed unconstitutional 50 years ago, is punching above its weight, ensuring homes remain affordable. “Last year, New Jersey permitted far more new homes than New York — despite having half the population.”
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Zoning rules aren’t tangential to our affordability crisis. They’re at the heart. Take it from the planners in Montgomery County, MD. 👇
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The good folks at @1000oregon aren’t accepting the false choice between livable cities and thriving farms. Better land use means more land is reserved for the work that keeps us all fed.
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“I can actually know what my costs are.” That’s critical for ensuring builders can create more homes and for making affordable projects feasible.
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The weather is heating up in Austin, but so is housing policy. 🔥 @AURAatx has championed big changes to the city’s housing rules, and costs are already coming down.
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Calling new homes "luxury" apartments is often used pejoratively to stop new housing.
But @mocomikee.bsky.social is right: "the more luxurious item is the one that costs more dollars than the other" —which means single-detached houses are far more luxury than apartments. ggwash.org/view/93183/w...
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Evidence from Buffalo and Seattle proves that parking mandates are a poison pill. @Sightline shows that 60–70% percent of new homes would have been illegal to build under the old, pre-reform codes. 🤯
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More homes = more opportunities. Fewer homes = fewer opportunities. 👇 “A failure to address the housing shortage could deprive the [tristate] region of 730,000 additional jobs.”
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Voters care about housing, and they’re ready to cast ballots for leaders with real, proven solutions.
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@jessekb.bsky.social isn't mincing words on ADU reform! 🔥
"Frankly, if we can’t do this one thing, we’re just not serious about tackling housing issues in Massachusetts."
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Some Massachusetts towns are refusing to comply with state law to zone for more homes. Meanwhile, metro Boston is facing the worst shortage of homes anywhere in the US.
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NIMBYs aren’t getting away with nebulous claims that more homes will cause them harm in Alexandria. That’s a win for our communities.
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“By creating single-family zoning and having fenced-off communities, you were able to exclude the 'others' ... what they called ‘economic segregation’ — but that was a guise for racial segregation.”
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“Legislators and activists alike should recognize that Minnesota voters care deeply about housing affordability, and these kinds of proposals have substantial support among Minnesota voters.” —@zyudhishthu.bsky.social
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Exclusionary zoning doesn’t just keep working people out. It keeps out businesses who would hire those people. Exclusionary zoning is a job killer.
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“What's more important — more housing units or more space for cars? It's not a hard choice in my book.” —Scott Epstein of @abundanthousingla.bsky.social
Homes > parking. Always.
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This series on how affordable housing works is spot on. In this issue, they explain why it’s so hard to build affordable housing in wealthy neighborhoods: Cost, opposition, and most importantly, time.
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“... limited inventory will probably continue to be the biggest barrier to homeownership in the coming months.” Failing to build homes makes homes more expensive. Duh.
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Again and again, frivolous environmental reviews and lawsuits are preventing us from building the homes people need. This abuse of environmental laws harms the very things these laws were enacted to protect — our communities and our environment.
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