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Minneapolis Strikes a Blow for Affordable Housing by Slashing Zoning Restrictions

Yesterday, the City of Minneapolis struck a major blow for both property rights and affordable housing by enacting the most extensive reduction in zoning restrictions adopted by any major US city for ... read more

Carson Plan: Deregulation to Promote Affordable Housing

The topic was the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development's recently announced plan to combat the lack of affordable ... attempting to "strike a powerful blow on behalf of the poor and vulnerable" ... read more

Viewpoints: From city hall to classrooms, Texas faces big decisions in 2018

Not only will the Austin City Council wrestle with a contentious overhaul of the city’s cumbersome land-use and zoning regulations ... if density will accelerate or slow the city’s affordable housing ... read more

The Year in Review: A Timeline of 2016

Jan. 1: Wake County officials list transportation and affordable housing as their top issues for ... July 29: A federal judges strike down North Carolina's voting restrictions, citing the ... read more

Our readers talk back.

During a good blow from the west ... climates imposed upon the South. Lack of affordable housing is mostly a government created problem: mold, zoning, property taxes, Americans With Disabilities Act, ... read more

Housing Bubble and Real Estate Market Tracker

Building Activity Continues To Lag In August (Minneapolis ... 20 strike. Implied volatility on these options stands at 90% - a tender understatement in light of the 152% licking that Countrywide ... read more

To Save Themselves, US Newspapers Put Readers to Work

Shawnda Mitchell spends her days as an IT specialist for a local nonprofit organization that helps place children of low-income families in day care ... boring stories about arcane changes in local ... read more

Steve Minn: How the core cities can address the affordable-housing problem

Minnesota cities can enter into contracts with existing owners to keep rents and income restrictions below ... density could help drive affordable housing. Both St. Paul and Minneapolis have density ... read more

Christopher Stefanoni son 'demoted in Little League to punish dad over housing plan'

The U.S. Department of Justice in 2010 began investigating whether the town was violating the Fair Housing Act with a zoning policy approved in 2009 that gave top priority for new affordable housing ... read more

FHA Finances Collapse as Agency Leadership Insists Everything is Just Fine

As expected, an independent audit of the Federal Housing Administration, which currently insures more than $1 trillion worth of U.S. mortgages, released last Friday showed the agency in a massive ... read more

In poor areas, mini farmers markets are oases

The effort got its start three years ago, after a local group struggled to open a small market outside a low-income housing complex. The group asked the Minneapolis City Council ... in many areas of ... read more