Policy
Texas Treads A New Path Into Zoning To Battle Housing Crisis
Texas is one of the nation's most active homebuilding states, yet affordability slips out of reach for millions. Lawmakers now aim to rewire the state’s zoning laws to boost supply, speed up approvals, and limit local obstruction. We unpack three key bills and the stakes behind them.
Policy
A Leadership Moment Of Truth Comes With Rulings, Reactiveness
Industry and business community leaders must see beyond polarized agendas and transient business trends. Lasting profitability goes with an essential ride-along – brave and steadfast purpose.
Policy
Add To The Blueprint To Address Housing's Affordability Crisis
For each of the 10 barrier-lowering imperatives builders call on policymakers to adopt in this blueprint, there are operational, strategic, tactical, and business-cultural changes builders can and need to evolve to truly and accountably commit to "doing their part."
Policy
Inclusionary Housing: Affordability Crisis Solution Or Policy Mirage?
Scott Cox examines fresh data evidence underlying one of U.S. localities' widely trending housing attainability policy -- and electability -- strategies. Here is his take on five better ways to make progress.
Policy
Affordability Efforts Abound ... With Unintended Consequences
It is hard to shake the feeling that, in trying to solve our housing problems by selectively building for a small portion of specific classes of people, we are creating a more rigid community of haves and have-nots instead of solving the root causes of insufficient building.
Leadership
25 Finalists Recognized For Ivory Innovations' Annual Prize
Innovators demonstrated capability and commitment to housing innovation with feasible, scalable, and ambitious approaches to critical challenges faced by builders, residents, and communities nationwide.
