Foreclosures in the U.S. rose by nearly 20 percent in October 2025, year-over-year. In Washington state, foreclosure activity in October 2025 was 18.9 percent higher, with… Read More »Foreclosures: Homeowners are struggling to keep up with their housing costs
New York City is moving toward allowing the construction of single-room occupancy units (SROs) as small as 100 square feet for the first time in… Read More »New bill would revive single-room occupancy apartments in New York
Low-cost micro-units, often called single-room occupancies, or SROs, were once a reliable form of housing for the poor and for newcomers in many U.S. cities. Over… Read More »How states and cities decimated Americans’ lowest-cost housing option
Technology is revolutionizing housing by introducing tech-enabled solutions, reducing construction and regulatory costs and removing transaction friction. New technologies such as full-size 3D printers are… Read More »How technology can help with housing affordability
Bend is at the epicenter of a question about whether circumventing Oregon’s urban growth boundaries in some cases can provide a new tool for creating… Read More »Bend land use experiment results in lower-cost homes
For decades, building new meant building bigger. Down came the bungalows and ranch homesand up went the McMansions. But for the better part of the… Read More »Smaller Houses on the Rise
By Steve MaherOur Valley Our Future An idea that arose during Our Valley Our Future’s community outreach work in 2015-16 — which then led to… Read More »Trackside Craft District is coming but Brewers Row was first
A few years ago, the state Legislature passed a couple bills to incentivize local governments to allow for more housing density with the addition of duplexes, triplexes, attached dwelling units, and the like. Now, a new study has taken a look at what changes local governments, including several in NCW, made to accommodate denser housing after receiving grant funding to remove unnecessary regulatory constraints.
Hear from Kaylin Bettinger, Executive Director of Upper Valley MEND, about what they are up to in regards to providing affordable workforce housing.
Converting malls could create hundreds of thousands of badly needed homes.