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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.

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Elections

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's nice to see Democrats pick up the State House in Virginia and keep the Senate. In the 2017 and 2019 elections, I thought Democratic wins in Virginia presaged a lot more. Maybe for secondary cities like Baltimore and Richmond, casinos, in some situations, are acceptable. Richmond, Virginia.