Across the Triangle, there’s never a shortage of public hearings where housing is on the table. This week, we’re watching a few cases in Durham, Fuquay-Varina and Raleigh. We’ve sorted through the agendas so you don’t have to, check out the details below.

+ don’t forget about our Raleigh Candidate Forum
on Wednesday, October 7 at 7pm at Trophy Maywood

📣 This Week’s Call to Actions:

There are opportunities to show up for housing in three different places over the next couple nights.

FUQUAY-VARINA

🏘️ REZ-2026-11 at 417 & 419 Raleigh Street

Tonight, Monday, October 5 at 7pm

This is a small infill project that requires a public hearing and Board commission. The 0.414-acre site currently has two attached townhomes. The rezoning would allow it to be divided into three lots with one row house on each.

💡 The rezoning is consistent with Fuquay-Varina’s adopted land use plan. Staff recommends approval, and the Planning Board unanimously recommended approval.

💡 Since the case first reached the Town Board, the applicant has held additional neighborhood meetings and revised setbacks, roof heights, fencing, landscaping and other design details in response to neighbors because there’s continued opposition. At the end of all that process, we are talking about three homes instead of two.

The public hearing has already closed, but opponents may continue showing up during general public comment. Housing supporters can still make sure Commissioners hear from people who support small-scale infill near downtown. And maybe add a suggestion that projects like this should be allowed by-right, without a hearing, next time.

👉 Come to the Board of Commissioners meeting tonight
or email the Mayor and Commissioners before the meeting.

📧 Fuquay-Varina Board of Commissioners contact information

DURHAM

🏢 Z2400035 at 3815 Wake Forest Road

Tonight, Monday, October 5 at 7pm

A proposed development at 3815 Wake Forest Road would bring approximately 200 multifamily homes to an area that is predominantly single-family, but close to transit and existing commercial amenities.

🏘️ More homes near transit and everyday destinations are exactly the kind of growth Durham needs to be able to accommodate.

👉 Come out tonight to support housing, you can sign up right before the meeting or email City Council ahead of time.

📄 View the Durham City Council agenda and case materials.
Look for the case and then Attachment F for full details.

BTW - you can meet up with YIMBY’s before the meeting at Queeny’s.

RALEIGH

💚 Three housing cases Tuesday night

Tuesday, October 6 at 7:00 p.m.

Raleigh City Council has three housing rezonings worth watching this week.

🏡 Z-43-25 – 6309 Litchford Road
Would allow up to 47 homes on 3.79 acres. The project has already been scaled back during the rezoning process and has faced sustained neighborhood opposition.

🏙️ Z-50-25 – 2233 & 2321 Capital Boulevard
Would rezone nearly 20 acres from three-story industrial mixed-use to allow substantially taller commercial mixed-use development, including housing.

🚍 Z-07-26 – 3911 Western Boulevard
Would increase allowed height from three to seven stories on a small mixed-use property along Western Boulevard within Raleigh’s Transit Overlay District.

The deadline to sign up to speak has already passed, but you do not have to speak to show Council that Raleigh has a constituency for more housing.

💚 Come Tuesday night. Wear green. Sit with us.

🪧 We’ll have our new green VOTE YES! signs to hold up when these cases are heard.

📄 View Tuesday’s Raleigh City Council agenda

Raleigh will also hold a public hearing Tuesday on the proposed Data Center Moratorium, at the front of the meeting, which they announced will have a maximum hearing time of 30 minutes.

📅 AND WEDNESDAY: Raleigh Candidate Forum

After two nights of watching current elected officials make housing decisions, Wednesday is a chance to hear from the people asking Raleigh voters to put them on City Council.

CITYBUILDER and our partners are hosting a Raleigh City Council Candidate Forum focused on housing, growth, planning for the future and the choices Raleigh faces as it continues to grow.

​How to Show Up

You don’t need to be an expert to speak. If you care about housing, that’s enough. Arrive early to sign up, wear green or any pro-housing gear so supporters can find each other, and keep your comments simple. Even 60 seconds makes a difference.

“I support more housing choices in this area. We need more homes, and this is a good place to add them.”

Housing decisions are made meeting by meeting. If you want a region where more people can afford to live, this is where it happens.

Show up. Speak up. Bring someone with you.

Thanks for taking the time to email a Councilor, show up, and speak for housing!

- Jenn Truman
and the Yes! In my Triangle and CITYBUILDER teams

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Hear Raleigh Candidates Talk About Housing

Join us for an evening with Raleigh candidates to talk all about housing in our city: what it should look like, where it should go, and how we get more of it! CITYBUILDER is hosting a Housing Forum to hear what candidates running for office in Raleigh think about the city’s housing shortage, and how to solve it.

RSVP to Raleigh Candidate Forum

🗓️ Wed Oct 7th 6:00pm - 10:00pm
📍 Trophy Brewing & Taproom, 656 Maywood Ave, Raleigh
⏰ Doors will open at 6pm; the forum will last from 7-9pm, and the event will end at 10pm.

Thanks to Trophy Brewing for providing the space for this important event, sponsored by CITYBUILDER and Yes! In My Triangle.

On the National Radar:

Austin Rents Decline by 18% in One Year

Closer to Home:

Cary Approves 625-unit Mixed-Use Housing Development

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Gov. Stein Nominates New Opportunity Zones

Closer to Home:

Chapel Hill Begins Discussion of Town’s LUMO Rewrite

Tarheels on a tear: After passing the town’s first significant housing reforms in decades, Chapel Hill town council is gearing up to rewrite its 20-year-old Land Use Management Ordinance (LUMO). Council recently released a draft of the new LUMO, which will dictate zoning and development throughout the town for decades to come.

Coming coverage: CITYBUILDER will share more updates on Chapel Hill’s LUMO rewrite as the process advances. Stay turned for more!

What to Do Next:

Come to Book Club on Sep 30

On Wednesday, Sep 30, we’ll be discussing Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Prosperity, with our conversation led by Aaron Lubeck. Whether you’ve read the book, or just read our summary; all are welcome to join!

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📘 Stuck by Yoni Appelbaum
📅 Wed Sep 30th 12:30pm - 1:30pm
📍 PRESS Coffee Crêpes Cocktails
400 Hillsborough St suite 108, Raleigh, NC 27603, USA

☕ CITYBUILDER will purchase your non-alcoholic beverage of choice.

👉 RSVP here

Come for the ideas. Stay for the people who want to build a Triangle where everyone has a place to live. We’ll see you there.

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The Property Tax Revolt Could Make Housing More Expensive

Closer to Home:

Raleigh Legalizes Minor and Exempt Subdivisions Unanimously

What to Do Next:

Invite a Student to Our Policy Talk on Sep 22!

CITYBUILDERs in training: Our virtual policy talk on Tuesday, Sep 22nd will explore more of the Triangle’s incredible programs that teach how to build better cities. If you know a high school or college student who’s interested in architecture, engineering, planning, or design, then please share this opportunity with them.

🕛 Tuesday, September 22nd at 12pm (virtual on Google Meet)

RSVP for Policy Talk

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Asheville’s housing reforms make national news

Closer to Home:

Durham passes resolution supporting tenants unions

What to Do Next:

Sign up to speak in support of exempt plats by 3pm today

Sign up by 3pm on Friday, Sep 11th to speak at Raleigh’s public hearing on Tuesday afternoon, where council will consider an ordinance that would legalize exempt plats.

Signup to speak

Exempt plat ordinance: Raleigh City staff has prepared a draft ordinance (TC-4-26) to update the City’s subdivision regulations and legalize exempt plats. Read that draft ordinance here!

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California Could Allow Two ADUs Per Lot Statewide

Closer to Home:

Raleigh City Council Unanimously Approves Heritage Park Redevelopment

What to Do Next:

Come Learn How to Speak at City Council Sep 10th

Join CITYBUILDER and Yes! In My Triangle on Sep 10th for this free training to learn how to speak at City Council and public meetings. We’ll be joined by local leaders and advocates, as well the Duke University Improv team!

🕰️ Thursday September 10th • 6:30pm - 8:00pm
📍 Residence Inn by Marriott Durham McPherson • 1108 W Main St, Durham

In this this training we will:

• Learn how to sign up to speak at meetings

• Practice composing and delivering messages with impact

• Gain public speaking confidence through improv games

This training is FREE and open to the public, but spots are limited!

RSVP for How to Speak at City Council

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Asheville ends single-family exclusionary zoning

Closer to Home:

Raleigh Planning unanimously recommends legalizing exempt plats

What to Do Next:

Sign up by 3pm to support Heritage Park redevelopment

On Tuesday, Sep 1 at 7pm, Raleigh City Council will hear Raleigh Housing Authority’s request to rezone from RX-3 to DX-12 with conditions to provide additional height and flexibility for future phases of the Heritage Park redevelopment. Phase 1 is already beginning construction. Heritage Park is a multi-phase redevelopment expected to add substantially more housing. More zoning capacity gives RHA flexibility to fit more homes into future phases.

The rezoning includes a commitment for at least 122 homes affordable at or below 30% AMI for at least 30 years.

The site is near the planned Western Boulevard BRT corridor, making this an especially good place to allow more housing.

Affordable housing needs YIMBY supporters too.

We recently saw overwhelming organized opposition help stop an RHA affordable housing proposal in Cary. We can’t assume affordable housing will be approved just because the need is obvious.

Sign up here to speak by 3:00 p.m. Friday.
If you can’t speak, please send an email to City Council in support this weekend, or come out in green Tuesday night and help show Council that Raleigh residents support more housing, and more affordable housing!

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The number of kids in cities is falling

Kids on the decline: According to Wall Street Journal reporters Rachel Louise Ensign and Paul Overberg, “the number of children under 18 living in big U.S. cities is down 6% in the past decade… compared with a 1% decline nationwide. The drop is especially stark among families with little kids: The number of children under 5 in big cities fell 15%, compared with a drop of 7% nationwide. Even cities that are gaining population are losing children.”

Housing for families: This is a clarion call: we need cheaper multifamily housing now. Family-oriented units (quadplexes, cottage courts, small apartment buildings) must be allowed in order for families with children to thrive in urban environments.

NC pulls ahead: By eliminating parking minimums across nearly the entire state, North Carolina has encouraged the walkable, family-friendly housing that every community needs. When housing developers don’t have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a parking lot in an urban or suburban center, they pass those savings on to families in the form of lower rents and home prices.

Closer to Home:

Gov Stein Signs Regulatory Reform in Law

What happened: On August 11th, Gov. Stein signed the Regulatory Reform Act of 2026 (SB 445) into law. This bill contains a few housing policy changes, namely that cities with over 50,000 residents must allow ADUs in residential areas (cities can still regulate size and design). We’ll discuss the bill’s other changes in detail in a later piece.

Bipartisan support: State Rep Jeff Zenger (R-Forsyth) said that the bill “removes burdensome regulations, protects property rights, expands affordable housing, and supports businesses, workers, and military families.” With bipartisan support in the General Assembly, this legislative win shows that expanding housing is a winning issue in NC.

What to Do Next:

Comment in Raleigh’s Engagement Portal to Support Exempt Plats

New Raleigh ordinance: Raleigh City staff has prepared a draft ordinance (TC-4-26) to update the City’s subdivision regulations and legalize exempt plats. Read that draft ordinance here!

Comment by Aug 25: Raleigh Planning Commission will be discussing this at their regular meeting Tuesday, 25 August at 9:00am.

This is exactly the moment when City Staff and Planning Commission need to hear your voice. Whether you personally would benefit from this ordinance passing, or you know a project that would. Even if you just want more mid-sized housing and recognize that this ordinance would enable that… let them know!

Submit a comment!

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Meeting schedules are starting to fill back up after the summer lull.

This week, we’re watching Raleigh’s proposed subdivision reforms, a pair of rezonings in Apex, and several other planning and development discussions across the Triangle. We’ve sorted through the agendas so you don’t have to.

📣 This Week’s Call to Action: APEX

Raleigh and Durham are both off this week, so our attention shifts to Apex. Link to Agenda.

There are two interesting rezoning cases in Apex this week, neither of which are expected to be controversial, but they highlight an important lesson: every municipality has different development rules.

🏡 Rezoning Case No. 26CZ04 – 2913 Evans Road

A 0.46-acre rezoning to allow an existing single-family lot to be subdivided into two single-family lots.

💡 Staff and the Planning Board both recommend approval.

💡 Conditions include extending curb and sidewalk, along with additional architectural standards.

🏘️ This is exactly the kind of small-scale infill that arguably shouldn’t require a rezoning at all. If you have a few minutes, consider emailing Town Council to support the request AND remind them that projects like this should be allowed by right rather than requiring a legislative rezoning.

📄Link to staff report. 📄 Link to Planning Board summary.

🎓 Rezoning Application No. 26CZ03 – Veridea SD Plan Amendment / Wake Tech Conlon Campus

This request would amend the approved Veridea Sustainable Development plan to accommodate the future Wake Technical Community College Conlon Western Wake Campus.

💡 A good example of how rezonings aren’t always about housing. They also help communities adapt to changing civic needs including placing campuses near mixed use housing and job centers.

📄 Link to staff report.

RALEIGH

📝 Opportunity to Comment: Raleigh Minor & Exempt Subdivision Regulations

Not every housing decision happens at a public hearing. Sometimes the biggest changes happen while the rules are still being written.

Raleigh is proposing updates to its subdivision regulations that would create a new minor subdivision process and implement state-authorized exempt subdivisions. Together, these changes could reduce review time and costs for small-scale infill, making it easier to divide lots and create more housing choices. Evan Bost wrote about this on CITYBUILDER earlier this year.

💡 Comments are being accepted through August 19, before the Planning Commission Text Change Committee meeting that day.

👉 Take a few minutes to review the proposal and submit comments in support of making small-scale infill simpler, faster, and more predictable.

💬 Read the draft ordinance and Submit Comments

​How to Show Up

You don’t need to be an expert to speak. If you care about housing, that’s enough. Arrive early to sign up, wear green or any pro-housing gear so supporters can find each other, and keep your comments simple. Even 60 seconds makes a difference.

“I support more housing choices in this area. We need more homes, and this is a good place to add them.”

Housing decisions are made meeting by meeting. If you want a region where more people can afford to live, this is where it happens.

Show up. Speak up. Bring someone with you.

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Read How States & Localities Can Begin Implementing the ROAD to Housing Act

The ROAD ahead: The ROAD to Housing Act contains dozens of sections, most of which have implications for state and local governments. Researchers from Institute for Progress and Pew Research have created a broad set of recommendations for states and municipalities that want to take full advantage of these new federal policies.

Manufactured parity: One of the first steps that IFP & Pew list is certifying to HUD that state policies treat all manufactured homes the same as site-built homes. They write “This certification allows changes to the federal manufactured housing code to take effect in that state, lowering the cost per home by thousands of dollars.”

This is an important step for North Carolina. Currently, 10% of NC’s housing is manufactured/mobile homes (that’s twice the US average). Policymakers, planners, and government staff should think about how to fast-track these changes to allow more, better manufactured housing.

Closer to Home:

Raleigh is Considering Exempt Plats

What happened: Last month, Raleigh City staff prepared a draft ordinance (TC-4-26) to update the City’s subdivision regulations and legalize exempt plats. Read that draft ordinance here! This text change is scheduled for a public Planning Commission Text Change Committee meeting on August 19, 2026.

Why it matters: Modernizing Raleigh’s minor subdivision review process would bring the capital in line with most other NC municipalities, and reduce barriers to building small and starter homes. Currently, it takes 1-2 months to create a small lot subdivision in Durham, while it takes 1-2 years to create the same subdivision in Raleigh.

What to Do Next:

Write Into Engagement Portal to Support Exempt Plats

Comment before Aug 19: This is exactly the moment when Council and Planning need to hear your voice. Whether you personally would benefit from this ordinance passing, or you know a project that would. Even if you just want more mid-sized housing and recognize that this ordinance would enable that… let Council know!

Submit a comment

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Local governments make hundreds of decisions each year that determine where homes can be built, how neighborhoods grow, and whether it’s easier or harder to add housing. Most of them happen with little public attention.

Starting this week, Rezoning Watch will be a regular CITYBUILDER feature highlighting the meetings, rezonings, and land use decisions worth following across the Triangle. We’ll cut through the agenda packets, explain what matters, and point out the cases that deserve a closer look.

Many councils are returning from their summer break, making this a good time to launch. This week is relatively quiet, with one straightforward townhome rezoning in Durham and several communities easing back into their meeting schedules.

Durham

​Andrews Chapel Road Townhomes (Z2500032)​

📍 Tonight, August 3 at 7:00 PM
at Durham City Council Chambers, 101 City Hall Plaza

🏘️ Request to annex and rezone 4.5 acres within Durham’s Urban Growth Boundary to allow 28 townhomes

💡 Straightforward single-family to townhome rezoning in an established area. The site is already expected to develop. This allows more homes on the same land, expanding housing choices in an area already planned for growth.
💡​Inside the Urban Growth Boundary, this is the type of housing Durham needs to incrementally increase housing supply
⚠️ Expect the usual concerns about traffic and environmental impacts, despite the site already being designated for urban development

👉 Speak in person tonight by signing up outside Council Chambers before the meeting begins.

​How to Show Up

You don’t need to be an expert to speak. If you care about housing, that’s enough. Arrive early to sign up, wear green or any pro-housing gear so supporters can find each other, and keep your comments simple. Even 60 seconds makes a difference.

“I support more housing choices in this area. We need more homes, and this is a good place to add them.”

Housing decisions are made meeting by meeting. If you want a region where more people can afford to live, this is where it happens. Show up. Speak up. Bring someone with you.

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Study Finds High-Income Housing Construction Creates ‘Moving Chains’ for Low-Income Renters

Multifamily math: Pew research has shed light on a study from 2023 that looked through the address history of 52,000 residents of new multifamily buildings in large cities. The paper by Dr. Evan Mast concludes that “constructing a new market-rate building that houses 100 people ultimately leads 45 to 70 people to move out of below-median income neighborhoods, with most of the effect occurring within three years.”

Moving chains: The pattern described above is known as a “moving chain”, and it illustrates the ripple effect that new high-income housing has across the market. It makes intuitive sense: when new luxury housing is built, the people who move in don’t appear out of thin air. They mostly come from cheaper apartments. Once they move, their old apartments are vacant, and they’re no longer competing with lower-income people for those cheaper units. Thus, lower-income people move in to their apartment.

Closer to Home:

Cary NIMBYs Kill Affordable Housing Opportunity

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Massachusetts Might End Single-Family Zoning

Duplexes everywhere: Yesterday, an amendment (#372) that would legalize duplexes across the state of Massachusetts was added to an economic development bill moving through the state senate. If passed into law, this provision would ensure that duplexes can be built anywhere single-family homes can, with few exceptions.

Massachusetts is missing housing: The Bay State is the second-worst state in the nation for homebuilding and affordability, according to rankings from Realtor.com. This likely-to-pass reform is a welcome shift towards pro-housing policies.

Closer to Home:

UNC To Shut Down On-Campus Housing for Graduate Students

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ROAD to Housing Act Becomes Law Without Trump’s Signature

Finally law: Last Friday at midnight, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law without President Trump’s signature. After nearly a year of negotiations and decades of inaction, a flood of new federal housing policies will start to reshape how America builds.

What this means: From bringing down the price of manufactured homes, to incentivizing communities to allow more housing, the ROAD Act has a lot worth celebrating. Here at CITYBUILDER, we’re focused on how North Carolina’s state and local governments can implement the reforms from this bill to unlock more housing. Stay tuned!

Closer to Home:

NC Senate Advances Regulatory Reform Bill

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NC Ends Parking Minimums (almost) Statewide

Signed by Stein: On Monday, Governor Stein signed the Parking Lot Reform and Modernization Act (aka H162). When the bill takes effect on January 1st, 2027, North Carolina will be the first state in the nation to eliminate nearly all parking minimums statewide (parking minimums are still active in coastal counties), covering 90% of the state’s population.

First in the nation: While some cities had already removed parking mandates, and other states have limited them on housing projects or in transit areas, NC is leading the way on ending parking mandates across the board for housing and commercial projects alike. Allowing businesses and builders to choose how much parking they need has been shown to reduce costs, and it also reduces the environmental impact and flooding risks caused by parking lots.

Environmental Impact: It’s no secret that parking lots lead to major stormwater runoff, flooding, and pollution across our state. That’s why Catawba Riverkeepers was a key part of making this bill possible. Included in the bill is a provision that grants local municipalities the ability to offer incentives to increase stormwater protections when properties are redeveloped. This is a big win too.

More room for housing: To top it all off, NC’s parking reforms will make room for more homes in walkable areas. Cutting down on 30-minute commutes? Count us in! If you helped us advocate for this reform in any way, from calling your state senator to being a paid subscriber, we sincerely thank you.

Closer to Home:

Raleigh Considers Bringing Back Exempt Plats and Minor Subdivisions

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China Builds 26-Story Apartment Building in 5 Days

Manufactured marvel: Five days. That’s how long it took 100 workers in China to construct a 26-story residential tower. But if that sounds crazy, wait for this part: The workers didn’t mix any concrete, weld a single beam, or saw a single board. As Fix the News reports:

The modules arrived on flatbeds, 12m x3m x2.4m each, the exact footprint of a 40-foot shipping container — pre-wired, pre-piped, pre-furnished, and locked together like the world’s tallest piece of IKEA furniture.

High-speed housing: By assembling 208 move-in ready apartments in five days, Broad Sustainable Building has proven just how rapidly manufactured housing can be deployed. With the ROAD to Housing Act set to finally unleash the full potential of manufactured housing in the United States, it’s time to see if American companies can rival their Chinese counterparts in constructing housing with speed on a large scale.

Closer to Home:

NC Parking Reform Heads to Gov. Stein

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Trump Refuses to Sign ROAD Act; It Could Become Law Anyways

Congress passes ROAD Act: On Tuesday, the House passed the ROAD to Housing Act 358-32, one day after the Senate passed it 85-5. This is huge. After almost a year of negotiations, Congress just passed the most substantial housing reform bill in decades.

Trump refuses to sign: On Wednesday, President Trump refused to sign the bill, vowing to stonewall the legislation until the SAVE America Act is passed. However, Punchbowl News is reporting that House Speaker Johnson will present the ROAD Act to Trump on Monday, kicking off a 10-day window for him to either sign or veto the bill. If he does neither, the bill becomes law anyways.

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Federal ROAD to Housing Act Gets Even Better

Near the finish line: After ten long months of back-and-forth between the House and the Senate, the biggest federal housing bill in decades is close to becoming law. On Tuesday, the ROAD to Housing Act’s lead sponsors in the House and Senate released an encouraging joint statement on the bill’s final prospects. Sen. Scott said on CNBC that he expects the bill to pass in 2-3 weeks.

This bill is big: Pesky provisions that restricted build-to-rent housing were removed from the most recent version of the bill. Surprisingly, some great policies that the House stripped from the ROAD Act have made their way back in! Tahra Hoops from The Rebuild has a great summary of why this bill would be so transformative if signed into law.

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Illinois Eliminates Parking Minimums Near Transit

Illinois’ People Over Parking Act took effect on June 1st, eliminating parking minimums around transit corridors and hubs across the state.

The impact: According to housing advocate Micheal McLean, an estimated 781 square miles of Illinois are now exempt from municipal parking minimums. This includes a majority of the city of Chicago.

Transit triumph: Specifically, the law exempts from parking minimums any development project within one-half mile of a public transportation hub or one-eighth mile of a public transportation corridor. Check out just how big that area is using this map from Chicago Cityscape.

Closer to Home:

NC Parking Reform Makes it Through Senate Ag Committee

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Australian Housing Minister Issues Call To Build More Density

Danger down under: It’s not just America that faces a massive housing shortage, Australia is staring down a growing supply gap of hundreds of thousands of homes. During a speech at the National Press Club, the country’s Housing Minister, Clare O’Neil said:

“We need to build more dense cities in our country, full stop. […] For the first time, people are making the connection between the housing development down the street from them, and the capacity of their children to get into a home of their own. And that’s a connection that needs to be made.”

Anglosphere ailments: Housing shortages are currently hitting English-speaking countries much harder than other nations. As this graph from the Financial Times illustrates, The U.S., U.K., Australia, and more have experienced lower rates of housing growth than their European and East Asian peers.

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