Badger Herald

Recent zoning code changes could make Madison housing more affordable

The Madison City Council approved a set of changes in their meeting Tuesday, Feb. 25 on the zoning code designed to support the creation of more types of housing. The vote was unanimously approved, ...
koco.com

Oklahoma committee weighs building code changes to address housing shortage, construction costs

KOCO KYLIE THOMAS IS LIVE NOW. KYLIE WITH WHAT’S BEING PROPOSED NOW. OKLAHOMA’S BUILDING CODES ARE OFTEN WRITTEN IN RESPONSE TO TRAGEDY OR LESSONS LEARNED FROM PREVIOUS FIRES. NOW A STATE COMMITTEE IS ...
KOIN 6

Mayor Wilson warns Portland’s affordable housing system is on verge of financial collapse

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — In a memo to councilors on Monday, Portland Mayor Keith Wilson warned the city’s affordable housing portfolio could soon face financial insolvency. “Barring swift action, major ...
Forbes

When AI Writes Code, Who Protects Production Systems?

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Sibasis Padhi is a Staff Software Engineer at Walmart and an expert in fintech microservices ...
The New York Times

Mamdani’s Housing Plan Aims to Shore Up NYCHA and Build Affordable Homes

Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a sweeping housing plan that calls for building 200,000 affordable units and seeks to improve New York City’s crumbling public housing system. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and ...
City Limits

Mamdani’s Housing Plan To Overhaul How City Responds to Tenants’ Heat Complaints, Other Code Violations

The Mamdani administration will announce a series of reforms Tuesday to improve how the city enforces building violations, part of its broader plan to build and preserve new housing across the five ...
Next City

Housing First Was Never Meant To Be the Whole System

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. The recent turmoil around federal behavioral health funding, ...
Hartford Courant

Opinion: How one man’s CT housing ‘success’ reveals system failure

In November 2024, we shared the story of Chris, a man struggling with mental illness and substance use, who was living in a tent. We described his experience of multiple forced encampment removals, ...
The Gazette

Building code change will reduce housing costs without reducing safety

A new Colorado law was passed in 2025 mandating cities with over 100,000 residents to modify their building codes to remove the requirement for the construction of duplicative or second staircases in ...
Nature

Collective Governance in Multi-Owned Housing Systems

Collective governance in multi-owned housing systems encompasses the institutional arrangements, decision-making processes and management mechanisms by which individual property owners jointly oversee ...
The Real Deal

City Council signals pro-housing agenda, targets code changes for tiny lots

The City Council is exploring construction code reforms that it says could squeeze up to 35,000 new apartments out of the city’s most overlooked parcels: small, odd-shaped lots peppered across all ...