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January 19, 2023
Uncovering JAPA: Manufactured housing deserves more academic attention.
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January 13, 2023
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: Is your community overdue for a new development code?
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January 12, 2023
Uncovering JAPA: Restrictive vehicle ordinances do not reduce the prevalence of vehicular homelessness, but shift it to different communities.
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January 10, 2023
Congress passes a new $85 million grant program aimed at zoning reform. The funding represents a new and significant incentive and support for local zoning reform and planning for housing affordability.
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November 11, 2022
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: Your zoning code probably isn't ready for modern coliving communities.
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July 18, 2022
A recent report demonstrates that the underproduction of housing units affects 47 states and Washington D.C., and its impacts are being felt in all kinds of places, from dense urban areas to small, rural towns.
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May 17, 2022
Get the latest information on housing reforms at state and federal levels, including the Biden administration's launch of the Housing Supply Action Plan.
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May 13, 2022
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: How can deregulation expand housing supply and support housing equity?
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April 21, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: Manufactured housing, despite the importance impact to low-income homeownership, remains an understudied topic in planning research and practice. This article provides a needed spatial and regulatory analysis of mobile home parks in Houston.
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March 14, 2022
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: Do high office vacancy rates mean that office-to-housing conversions are inevitable? How does zoning affect opportunities for adaptive reuse projects?
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March 3, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: Authors examine 180 cities in Southern California to determine if changing residential land uses reduce housing inequities.
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February 3, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding how major metropolitan areas have shifted their approach to zoning for density.
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January 21, 2022
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: Jenny Raitt challenges planners to reckon with zoning's racist legacy, and work to build integrated and equitable communities.
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December 16, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: How do uneven negotiating powers stymie affordable housing development?
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December 15, 2021
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: Three recent issues of Zoning Practice have offered bold new visions for alternatives to the status quo in zoning. These visions range from a radical rebuild to an attempt to harness self-interest to advance elusive collective goals.
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November 4, 2021
New federal support for zoning reform is in President Biden's Build Back Better framework thanks to planners' advocacy. White House leaders recently made the case for why tackling zoning and housing supply challenges is at the center of the President's economic agenda.
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November 2, 2021
The City of Seattle launched ADUniverse, using ESRI's ArcGIS to help residents understand their ADU options.
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September 30, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: An experiment to determine if the number of people impact the quality of a public space?
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September 16, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: How has the jobs-housing balance in California shifted from the results measured in earlier research?
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August 19, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: See early measurements on the impact of eliminating single-family zoning on Minneapolis property values.
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July 8, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the history of exclusionary zoning practices.
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May 20, 2021
Catch up on the latest efforts by planners who are leading zoning reform across the country.
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May 3, 2021
Boston's new zoning amendment works to affirmatively further fair housing and addresses concerns about displacement.
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April 13, 2021
Zoning reform efforts are underway in Connecticut, a state with a long history of exclusionary zoning. Several bills that aim to tackle zoning reform are in play at the legislature this session — and planners are weighing in.
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April 2, 2021
A bipartisan bill that would empower planners to reform zoning and development codes, create housing action plans, and modernize regulatory structures has been introduced in Congress.
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February 11, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Why do landlords set housing rents below market? Can planners use this to expand affordable housing without public subsidies?
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January 29, 2021
Sponsored Content from Granicus: Whether because of COVID concerns or in spite of them, the growth of the short-term rental market was rapid in 2020, and it looks like that trend will continue in 2021.
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January 27, 2021
A new economic development bill includes provisions that will make it easier for towns and cities across Massachusetts to produce more housing by greenlighting certain local zoning changes with a simple majority vote.
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January 21, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: How do researchers inventory restrictive regulations and assess their relationship to the underproduction of housing?
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October 22, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: What do quantitative methods reveal about LGBTQ neighborhood development and historic preservation?
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August 24, 2020
Sponsored Content from Granicus: A strong ordinance and a proactive approach can provide communities with a sustainable system for regulation of short-term rentals.
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June 18, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Affordable housing and resiliency must coexist. How can low-income households weather the storm?
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May 28, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the language of covenants, codes, and restrictions to learn the role homeowner associations play in regulating the aesthetic and ecological functions of yards.
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May 14, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Is it time to give the ax to single-family residential zoning? Nine JAPA viewpoints argue the question from both sides.
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March 5, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Planners may create communities more resilient to housing foreclosure by addressing location affordability.
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February 20, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: There is more to housing affordability than finding a place with a reasonable rent. What can planners do to promote energy efficiency and, more importantly, energy justice?
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February 3, 2020
As 2020 state legislative sessions start up, here are three top issues for planners.
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September 5, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Switching from Level of Service (LOS) measurement to Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) could streamline the development process in California.
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August 6, 2019
State legislation is a part of housing reform. Here are APA's actions for the states.
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August 1, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Single-family restrictions, lot sizes restrictions, and parking requirements limit developers’ ability to build affordable housing. However, in this quandary, we may also find the solution.
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July 11, 2019
Read about the three key housing crisis takeaways for planners in the new National League of Cities Housing Task Force report, Homeward Bound.
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June 13, 2019
One of APA's partners, Enterprise, describes its work in the arena of housing affordability and accessibility.
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May 21, 2019
Clovis, California's Cottage Home Program for affordable housing is expanding throughout the city.
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October 26, 2018
State and local ballot measures are driving voters to the polls this fall. We are watching some key planning-related measures that could have an impact on your community.
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March 26, 2018
Housing affordability challenges across the nation are some of the most pressing and controversial. Learn more about California housing legislation and the role of planners.
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February 21, 2018
The President's FY 2019 budget proposal dramatically changes the core functions of HUD by eliminating all community development programs and cutting off funds for renovating and modernizing public housing.
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January 11, 2018
In a controversial move, HUD issued a notice effectively suspending new fair housing planning rules until 2020. APA plans to submit comments on the action.
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November 6, 2017
The long-awaited tax reform legislation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (HR 1), contains provisions that will have potentially significant impacts on housing and economic development activities.
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July 14, 2016
A new study examines why Inclusionary Zoning is a driver of economic diversity and expanding opportunities in cities across the U.S.
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June 27, 2016
Building more market-rate housing in desirable areas, like Chicago's Lincoln Park, could increase access to affordable housing on a regional scale.
