• The ‘missing middle’ of zoning code reform

    Beyond the battles between NIMBY and YIMBY, a third option— call it “QUIMBY”—offers a promising path forward.
    Imagine that you’re a parent with a couple of quarrelsome kids. You give them some slices of cake, and perhaps not surprisingly, they fight over who got the bigger slice. Now imagine instead that you tell one of the kids to slice the cake, and let the other kid pick the first slice. Watch how...Read more

  • An agenda for the housing crisis

    A Delaware Senator, Lisa Blunt Rochester, offers wide-ranging solutions to the US housing problem.
    The New Way Home Agenda , a report by US Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) on solutions to the US housing crisis, is a remarkably common-sense document on a complicated issue—the kind that an individual senator or member of Congress doesn’t often produce. The 35-page document released last week...Read more

  • Legislation advances for zoning reform, pre-approved plans, pattern books and more

    Senators propose federal support for pro-urbanist ideas including local zoning reform, pre-approved plans, infill, and transit-oriented development.
    The ROAD to Housing Act 2025, which was passed unanimously by the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on July 29, includes support for federally funded pattern books, pre-reviewed plans, zoning reform, streamlined infill housing, and transit-oriented development. The bipartisan...Read more

  • Washington flips the switch on parking reform

    State legislation takes a new approach to removing parking mandates—one that is far more comprehensive.
    Today, I am covering something that happened two months ago, as I was preparing for CNU, so I didn’t have time to report on it then. However, it is important enough to revisit now. The State of Washington adopted a new approach to statewide parking reform that the Sightline Institute calls “the...Read more