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Apartment complex owners sue New Jersey town over new fees
Among other requirements, landlords in Edison must pay $100 per unit per year under a new housing ordinance.
By Mary Salmonsen • Sept. 16, 2024 -
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Minnesota bans pot smoking, vaping in multifamily properties
The move is a first of its kind among states, although 85 California municipalities have banned smoking in multifamily units, according to the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation.
By Mary Salmonsen • Sept. 13, 2024 -
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From worsening climate change to a shifting transportation landscape and the housing affordability crisis, cities have their work cut out for them.
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Low-income families face high energy burden, prompting calls for more government action
One in four low-income U.S. households spends more than 15% of their income on energy bills, finds an analysis by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Sept. 13, 2024 -
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Q&ACincinnati mayor says zoning overhaul reflects ‘generational change’ in how people think of cities
Years of community engagement revealed Cincinnatians don’t support getting rid of single-family zoning altogether — but they were open to relaxing it in some areas, Mayor Aftab Pureval said.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Sept. 11, 2024 -
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3 commercial-to-residential conversions receive city government support in Washington, D.C.
Five businesses are also getting grants to open or expand into downtown spaces that have been vacant for at least six months, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Sept. 10, 2024 -
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Multifamily permitting drops in urban areas
Higher interest rates and supply chain concerns have taken a toll on new apartment construction, according to the National Association of Home Builders.
By Mary Salmonsen • Sept. 9, 2024 -
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Atlanta’s homelessness response could get a $60M infusion
A bond and the city’s affordable housing trust fund would unleash millions of dollars under a proposal by Atlanta’s mayor and city council. Up to 700 affordable housing units could be built with the funds.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Sept. 6, 2024 -
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Homelessness response team heads to streets in Birmingham, Alabama
As it does in some California and Texas cities, the organization Urban Alchemy will respond to certain nonemergency calls in Birmingham instead of the police.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Sept. 5, 2024 -
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‘Housing production strategy’ passes in Portland, Oregon
In its first such plan, the city outlined dozens of ways to meet housing needs in coming years as rents and home prices outpace income.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Sept. 3, 2024 -
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California tackles housing shortage, homelessness with 2 new laws
“The homelessness crisis demands immediate and innovative action, not the status quo,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has recently cracked down on encampments of people experiencing homelessness.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Aug. 30, 2024 -
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Cities assert tenants’ right to cooling in a warming world
Grappling with fatal heat waves, local governments are passing laws that make landlords provide working air conditioning. Financial and other challenges remain, however.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Aug. 27, 2024 -
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DOJ sues software firm RealPage over algorithm that allegedly drives up rents
The attorneys general of several states joined the suit, which accuses the company of an “unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords.”
By Leslie Shaver • Aug. 26, 2024 -
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Q&AWill New York City make landlords provide air conditioning? Its climate chief is optimistic.
Coordinating any such mandate with the city's building decarbonization law requirements could reduce the burden it might create for building owners, Rohit Aggarwala explained.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Aug. 26, 2024 -
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Colorado sees a wave of landlord-tenant rules
Local governments recently gained a right of first refusal on affordable housing sales, as well as a first offer on market-rate housing. Other new laws focus on for-cause evictions and rent stabilization after natural disasters.
By Mary Salmonsen • Aug. 23, 2024 -
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NYC rezoning allows transit-oriented development around four new train stations in the Bronx
The New York City Council plan includes 7,000 new housing units around the stations in the East Bronx, currently considered a transit desert.
By Dan Zukowski • Aug. 23, 2024 -
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Deep DiveAn air conditioning law, the first in its region, changed tenants’ rights in this Maryland county
Montgomery County began requiring landlords to provide AC in 2020 amid climate concerns and renter complaints. Despite a shaky start, officials say things are going smoothly now.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Aug. 22, 2024 -
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Deep DiveShould tenants have a right to cooling? More cities say yes amid record heat.
As rental cooling standards pop up around the country, experts warn that they aren’t a perfect solution to the rising danger of scorching temperatures.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Aug. 20, 2024 -
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The cities expecting the most newly constructed apartments this year
Although apartment construction is expected to break records in 2024, the U.S. is still behind on the number of new units some say are needed by 2035 to mitigate affordability issues.
By Mary Salmonsen • Aug. 19, 2024 -
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23 mayors oppose California’s rent control ballot measure
Proposition 33 would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, allowing local governments to set rent control without restrictions.
By Mary Salmonsen • Aug. 16, 2024 -
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San Francisco passes ban on revenue management software in rental housing
The ordinance, which has not yet been enacted, asserts that the software allows residential landlords to indirectly coordinate with one another, raising rents, lowering occupancy rates and increasing evictions.
By Mary Salmonsen • Aug. 14, 2024 -
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HUD’s latest affordable housing push is $100M for communities
State and local governments can apply for grants to address high development costs, outdated land-use policies, climate change risks and other barriers, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Aug. 14, 2024 -
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Homeless veterans get supportive housing leg-up with HUD policy change
Expanded eligibility and a $20 million investment in local agencies will get more veterans into housing, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Aug. 9, 2024 -
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Relocation first is San Francisco’s new homelessness strategy
With a report that shows 40% of the city's homeless population comes from elsewhere, San Francisco can't "solve the housing and behavioral health needs of people across our country," Mayor London Breed said.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Aug. 6, 2024 -
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2,500 homes slated for former basketball arena site in Sacramento, California
The 183-acre master-planned community is one of several new multifamily projects underway on or near sports arenas across the U.S.
By Mary Salmonsen • Aug. 1, 2024 -
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$36M for low-income housing energy efficiency available from US DOE grants
Local governments and other entities can get up to $2 million each for weatherization and workforce training efforts.
By Ysabelle Kempe • Aug. 1, 2024
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