This month the White House released a Housing Development Toolkit. The report starts by talking about the local barriers to building and makes this statement:

“The growing severity of undersupplied housing markets is jeopardizing housing affordability for working families, increasing income inequality by reducing less-skilled workers’ access to high-wage labor markets, and stifling GDP growth by driving labor migration away from the most productive regions.”

It then goes on to highlight a number of tools that American cities have adopted or should adopt “to promote healthy responsive, affordable, high-opportunity housing markets.” 

They are:

• Establishing by-right development
  

• Taxing vacant land or donate it to non-profit developers
  

• Streamlining or shortening permitting processes and timelines
  

• Eliminate off-street parking requirements

This month the White House released a Housing Development Toolkit. The report starts by talking about the local barriers to building and makes this statement:

“The growing severity of undersupplied housing markets is jeopardizing housing affordability for working families, increasing income inequality by reducing less-skilled workers’ access to high-wage labor markets, and stifling GDP growth by driving labor migration away from the most productive regions.”

It then goes on to highlight a number of tools that American cities have adopted or should adopt “to promote healthy responsive, affordable, high-opportunity housing markets.” 

They are:

• Establishing by-right development
  

• Taxing vacant land or donate it to non-profit developers
  

• Streamlining or shortening permitting processes and timelines
  

• Eliminate off-street parking requirements