The FAIR LA Plan

Get ready: by the end of the decade, Los Angeles might build over 450,000 new homes. This might surprise many readers. Have YIMBYs hypnotized the L.A. City Council? Not quite. Every eight years, cities are required under state law to update their housing elements, a...

A Better RHNA Methodology

SCAG has recently posted their latest RHNA methodology on their website, which you can see here.  But this methodology still encourages sprawl through an increased importance of “local input” as a factor. What would a better RHNA methodology look like?...

RHNA – The Best and Worst

We have a housing crisis and no single city, acting on its own, can fix it. Why don’t we just give each city a housing production target to reach at different income levels and then let them figure it out? Well, that exact process already exists, and it’s called RHNA....