LEED v4.1 now available, the risk of ill-fitting construction equipment for women, renters' electric car conundrum, Chicago's passive house passes polar vortex test, and addressing affordable workforce housing shortages
The infusion of private capital from outside industries into affordable housing initiatives will change communities, and may change the framework of how shelter is delivered there
New LEED credit for timber traceability, ICC code releases for repurposed shipping containers, San Francisco clears ADU permit backlog, tech keys to affordable housing, and a 3D-printed 2,000 square-foot home
A new housing trend is getting big in Denver: tiny living. Buildings made entirely or mostly of apartment units smaller than 500 square feet are proliferating.
Codes organizations to develop new guidelines for shipping containers as building components, free rooftop solar panels to qualifying NOLA residents, Lower Manhattan's coming streetscape transformation pilot program report, NYC's modular construction aff
The State of Oregon's first-in-the-nation rent control bill caps annual rent hikes to seven percent (plus inflation), and is one of the quickest ways to alleviate pressure on housing affordability.
Existing-home sales dropped to the lowest level in more than three years, in January 2019, down 1.2 percent over the previous month. Annually, sales were down 8.5 percent, per data from the National Association of Realtors.
Utah's housing zoning reform bill, SB34, aims to increase supply of affordable housing and may be a useful case study for other cities and states around the country.