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SPUR Talk: Convert Offices to Housing?

People are working from home, resulting in one in five offices in San Francisco sitting empty. The Bay Area also has a housing crisis. Which has more and more people, including Governor Gavin Newsom, thinking it's time to look at converting some of that disused office space into housing.

Roger Rudick

May 17, 2022

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Equity

New State Rule Would Force Suburbs to Legalize Thousands of New Apartments Near T Stops

The Baker administration is gearing up to implement a new law that could force suburbs in the MBTA service area to reform zoning laws and legalize the construction of tens or even hundreds of thousands of new homes near MBTA stations across eastern Massachusetts.

Christian MilNeil

January 13, 2022

Streetsblog Chicago |Driving

Minimum parking, maximum rent: Let’s cut tenants a break by ending parking minimums

It’s time to build on the success of the transit-oriented development ordinance and eliminate parking minimums for housing city-wide.

Richard Day

December 14, 2021

Streetsblog California |Affordable Housing

Parking Requirements Are Not a Useful Bargaining Chip for Increasing Affordable Housing

Opponents of A.B. 1401 concede that parking requirements are bad policy, but worry that removing them will undermine affordable housing production. Evidence suggests that's not the case.

Melanie Curry

May 19, 2021

Streetsblog Denver |Housing

Commentary: What do parking requirements have to do with affordable housing?

When I entered the affordable housing world, one thing I didn’t count on was how many projects across Denver don’t even pass the visioning stage. There are a variety of reasons for this, mainly revolving around finances, but the one I was not counting on was…parking.

Streetsblog Denver

April 16, 2021

Streetsblog San Francisco |Housing

Berkeley’s Move Towards Eliminating Single-Family Zoning

The legacy of exclusionary zoning is that it deprived certain communities the luxury of stability and wealth accumulation, which has left them more vulnerable to displacement as their neighborhoods become more attractive and accessible to wealthier outsiders.