Apartments
Make room for apartments, shops, and neighbors
Stop reserving most well-located land for the most expensive kind of home. Let more people live near jobs, schools, shops, and opportunity.
What communities can do
Make room for more neighbors.
No single rule caused the housing shortage. No single reform will solve it. These six changes remove different barriers between an idea and a finished home.
Missing middle
Bring back the homes between a house and a high-rise
Duplexes, fourplexes, cottages, courtyard apartments, and rowhouses once made ordinary neighborhoods work. Let them belong again.
ADUs
Let homeowners add a home
A backyard cottage, garage apartment, or basement home can house a parent, a renter, a caregiver, or the next generation.
Parking reform
Stop forcing every home to buy parking
Builders can still provide parking. Just stop hiding a mandatory space—and its cost—inside every apartment.
Homes near transit
Put more homes where the connections already are
A train station surrounded by housing bans is a public investment surrounded by a private waiting list. Let more people live within reach.
Faster approvals
Set clear rules—and say yes on time
Debate the rules in public. Then approve homes that follow them without years of hearings, bargaining, appeals, and delay.
A complete agenda
Supply. Stability. Subsidy.
More homes reduce scarcity across the market. Public and nonprofit housing, vouchers, and services reach people the market will not. Tenant protections help people navigate change. Different tools. One goal.
See how the tools fit →