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America's Housing Shortage Won't Be Fixed With 'One Weird Trick'

Highlighting individual wonky rules that drive up housing costs is good. But getting America building again is going to require more than a few marginal reforms.

Reason · Aug 26, 2025

New York's City of Maybe

Plus: Colorado passes a string of zoning reforms, an upscale Los Angeles grocery store sues to stop new housing, and Democrats urge the White House to get moving on fair housing.

Reason · May 14, 2024

Will Eric Adams' 'Get Stuff Built' Plan Actually Get Stuff Built?

The mayor is proposing a long list of helpful, but marginal, reforms that would speed up the city's approval processes for new housing.

Reason · Dec 9, 2022