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Faced with a crippling housing shortage, California’s governor and legislative leaders have agreed to reward local governments that make it easier to build houses faster and punish those that don’t.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Editorial Board responded to an executive order establishing the White House Council on Eliminating Barriers to Affordable Housing Development. While much of the article focuses on the creation of the Council, the editorial board got to the root of our country’s housing affordability problem:

This week, twenty presidential hopefuls will take the stage in Miami for the first Democratic primary debate. In between all the personalities and policy proposals, housing affordability is among the issues expected to receive considerable attention.

Washington Post columnist Charles Lane reflects on the need for ambitious housing solutions in cities throughout Blue America.

Political blogger Kevin Drum explains in Mother Jones why rent control, as it turns out, doesn’t help those who need it most.

As rent control regulations are renewed in New York, The New York Times Editorial Board breaks down how a big idea in Minneapolis points the way for other cities desperately in need of housing. The growing city did away with single-family zoning to make way for the creation of more housing.

Rent control legislation introduced in the Illinois state legislature this year may have been defeated, but many are warning that the issue won’t wind down anytime soon.

A new report from the National League of Cities revealed that most of America’s mayors have one thing on their mind: housing.