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The pro-housing movement earned major victories in states across the country this year.

Last week, the City Council in Alexandria, Virginia, passed its “Zoning for Housing” plan.

The Montgomery County Council will soon consider a measure that would eliminate parking requirement for new housing located near transit.

As the Minneapolis City Council debated whether to advance a rent control ordinance, the city’s Mayor, Jacob Frey, worked behind the scenes to reassure housing providers.

Last week, at a Washington, D.C. housing conference, HUD Deputy Secretary Adrianne Todman and U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D – OR) and Todd Young (R – IN) discussed how Congress and the Biden administration can work to solve the nation’s housing affordability crisis.

In just the first 12 days after NYC’s ADU pilot program was announced, more than 1,300 homeowners applied to participate in it.

In an opinion piece for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Ronda Puryear argues against a rent-control plan floated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Nationwide rent control would worsen, not alleviate, the housing crisis, says Puryear. She also contends that it would lead to inequitable housing outcomes, with affluent residents “crowding out” working-class renters from affordable apartments. […]

California’s Department of Housing & Community Development (HCD) has threatened to decertify the City of San Francisco’s housing element if the city doesn’t take steps to make it easier to build new housing. In response, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors advanced legislation this week to reform how the city approves development.