Monthly Archives: March 2023

Developers in Colorado are using modular homes to address the housing crisis. These homes require minimal construction on site. This housing solution involves public and private efforts, including free land from San Miguel County, grants from heavyweight foundations to launch a nonprofit developer and unique lending. Colorado Sun | A modular home community near Telluride […]

Disney said checkmate to the political drama. To quick recap, Disney is located in a special district, and the Florida legislature upended it. To match this, before the switch over, the special district passed special covenants and entered into a development deal with Disney Co. moving all the power of the special district to Disney. […]

California proposes adding housing to the state’s health care safety net. The program would include 6 months of rent for qualified low income enrollees. Some say inadequate housing are driving health outcomes. Similar programs are ongoing in Arizona and Oregon. Route Fifty | Prescription for Housing? California Wants Medicaid to Cover 6 Months of Rent

Green burials come in 3 shades of green. First the hybrid, let’s call this kelly green, a kelly green cemetery is a conventional cemetery that has an area for burials without a concrete vault or chemical embalming. The next is a dedicated natural burial cemetery let’s call this forrest green, that uses no non-native materials […]

North Carolina passed an Ag-Gag bill that prohibited disclosure of “undercover animal-cruelty investigations and publiciz[ing] what they uncover.” The bill left the legislature and made a very fast trip to the courts. The court said that protecting private property rights is good and all but limiting free speech is not. Harvard Univeristy | Property Law […]

Arkansas legislature has passed SB197 (2023 |AR) that says local governments infringe on private property rights in their regulation of short term rentals. Trust issues are alive and well between states and cities as the bill also prohibits cities from enforcing existing short term rental rules. Cities can require permits, but no more. This reminds me of […]

Welcome new eminent domain messaging- using eminent domain for a pipeline in Iowa is being called profit over people. Iowa Capital Dispatch | Disasters happen when businesses put profits above people

Ah.. Florida, you’re getting a lot of attention this year. Everyone wants to suss out the politics of your Governor. Florida legislators want statewide rules on short term rentals. They say local governments cans till have noise, trash and parking ordinances but they have to be the same rules that apply to all residents. “The […]

San Luis Obispo is reviewing home deeds to clear the deeds of racist provisions. Restrictive covenants in the 1940s limited residential property to caucasians. In 2021, the California Legislature passed AB1466 (CA | 2021), that outlawed discriminatory language in covenants, conditions and restrictions and develop a plan to remove the covenants. Governing | San Luis […]

Texas Attorney General Opinion KP-0437 answers the question whether a public facility corporation sponsored by a municipal management district created under chapter 375 of the Local Government Code can act outside its geographical territory. The answer: Probably yes and then cautions ” Whether a PFC should have this authority and the limitations of such authority […]