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Tennessee has enacted SB 2100 (2024 | TN) that allows large scale developers to use in-house building safety inspectors. The goal is said to be to streamline the building process. Tennessee Outlook | New law allows Tennessee developers to hire their own building safety inspectors

Barcelona is working to ban AirBnB because short term rentals are making the city unaffordable for year long residents. @bloombergbusiness

We talk about converting office buildings to housing and the building code hurdles that can exist. Let’s turn to converting churches to housing. Meet SB 4 (2023 | CA), Affordable Housing on Faith Lands Act, that supports faith based organizations that convert their surplus properties to build 100 percent affordable housing. Maryland, New York and Virginia […]

States are passing building codes that focus on more thermal energy sources like heat pumps to heat and cool homes and buildings. “At the start of June, Eversource Energy commissioned the United States’ first networked geothermal neighborhood operated by a utility, in Framingham, Massachusetts” Route Fifty | The secret to decarbonizing buildings might be right beneath your […]

A survey by Pew Charitable Trusts indicates that swing voters can hold the key to loosening home building building ordinances that will create more housing. Pew Charitable Trusts | A Swing Constituency Could Help Allow More Homes

Big storms have left a path of destruction and led to rising insurance costs. To address the issue, Alabama passed legislation to pay for the cost of roofs the can withstand hurricanes. The goal of paying for roof upgrades is to stave off a home insurance crisis that leads to insurers pulling out of the state.  “Since […]

Last year Florida passed a ban on Chinese nationals from owning property. SB 264 (2023 | FL)   The bill made it a felony for a person who does not have a green card, that includes long term workers who are here legally under HB-1 visas. The criminal statute also extends to sellers and real estate agents. CNN | […]

 California’s ADU bill, AB 1332 (CA| 2023) , created online platforms for property owners and developers to review pre-approved ADU plans in their jurisdiction. “The Community Planning Collaborative, a housing policy and community engagement firm, has developed an online platform for government officials, architects and residents to manage authorized housing plans and where homeowners or developers will […]

 There’s been talk of squatters in empty houses, of renters with lengthy leases squatting, and now AirBnB-ers are squatting. So it is said for a North Carolina Airbnb listing. An airBnB condo in Durham, NC has been occupied for 8 months, without payments. The original payments were paid in cash and negotiated off the app. […]

Broward County, Florida, home to Two Live Crew and a notable Supreme Court 1st amendment ruling,  has turned to drones to spray for mosquitos in remote park lands and wetlands. This means no more machete wielding county workers spraying for mosquitos. The county also points to drone spraying as being  less invasive to private property.  Governing […]