• CNU endorses Housing Supply and Affordability Act

    CNU has endorsed the Housing Supply and Affordability Act, introduced in the US House and Senate last week. The bill is sponsored by Representatives Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), and Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.). As...Read more

  • Vermont adopts historic housing reform

    The HOME act allows missing middle housing statewide, reduces parking requirements, targets entitlement delays, and received widespread support.
    Editor's note: Vermont recently became the latest state to eliminate exclusive single family zoning statewide. Municipalities must allow duplexes anywhere single family homes are allowed. In areas served by sewer and water, municipalities must allow multiunit dwellings with four or fewer units to...Read more

  • Healing small cities through land use and transportation

    On the Park Bench experts reveal how to overcome barriers to healthy, thriving cities in America’s heartland.
    “We don’t know how. It costs too much. It won’t work here.” These three objections are raised by public officials when confronted with the need to reform land use and transportation, according to Mark Fenton, who presented on CNU’s On the Park Bench webinar Healing Small Cities . Fenton and co-...Read more

  • Spokane streamlines ‘missing middle’ housing

    A house plan catalog is designed to expedite construction of compact housing that fits the neighborhood context throughout the city.
    Spokane, Washington, is moving forward with highly streamlined approvals for a catalog of “missing middle” building plans in response to rising housing costs. The city of 228,000 people, where home prices increased substantially in recent years, officially declared a “housing emergency” last summer...Read more