A proposal to convert unused or underused parking garages and lots into housing units says it can help solve the housing crisis. Los Angeles transformed an underused parking lot it owns into apartments for low-income or homeless seniors. Route Fifty | Can parking garages alleviate the housing and homelessness crisis?
Monthly Archives: October 2024
Pre-condemenation Access court case to watch
A court case before the Iowa Supreme Court is one to watch concerning pre condemnation access to land. The issue is whether “it is unconstitutional for a pipeline company to undertake land surveys and examinations before it is vested with eminent domain.” What would today’s U.S. Supreme Court do with this? KCCI | Iowa Supreme […]
Montana. Affordable Housing. The election.
This week we followed a series of articles about how Montana’s much hyped affordable housing legislation of year(s) past isn’t as amazing as they say. That reality is running full steam ahead into the election. You know the one, U.S. Senator Tester (D). Tester is making the case for the reality of housing in his state. […]
Building Standards and Hurricane Helene
Some say that the actions of NC legislature made housing more affordable but also made homes more vulnerable to damage. It is said that legislators in the last 15 years rejected limits on “construction on steep slopes; blocked a rule requiring homes to be elevated above the height of an expected flood; weakened protections for […]