Stroock Presents: GOAT Town, Episode 4: Office-to-Residential Conversions in NYC – Magic Bullet or Merely One Piece of the Puzzle?
Creative Housing Solutions Pop Up Across Oregon
Business Better Podcast Episode: Affordable Housing in Chinatown, Los Angeles: How To Better Serve Your Community
Affordable Housing on the Front Range: Inclusionary Housing Ordinances and the New Middle Income Housing Authority
Orrick Public Policy Podcast #25 – A Conversation with the California State Senate Majority Leader Robert M. Hertzberg
Inside DC: Highlights and Implications of the FY 2022 Budget
[WEBINAR] Housing and Land Use Legislative Update
[WEBINAR] Advancing the Policy Discussion Around Housing
[WEBINAR] Innovative Partnerships to Overcome Housing Challenges in Communities
The National Zoning Atlas (NZA) team is digitizing, demystifying, and democratizing information about zoning conditions in more than 33,000 jurisdictions in the United States. Fully comprehending the zoning conditions of a...more
A major affordable housing development underway in Fairfax County, Virginia, is setting a new precedent for large-scale, multi-phase transactions in high-cost suburban markets. Located adjacent to the County’s Government...more
Happy Independence Week to our readers. 249 years after our great country declared its independence, will some multifamily owners and investors soon be free from TOPA? ...more
As spring begins to give way to summer, legislative activity shows no signs of cooling off. Our May TOPA Alert generated many questions and comments and a further update on the pending TOPA reform legislation is included...more
Good news for Kentucky local governments—they’ve got a new tool to help tackle housing shortages, thanks to legislation passed during the 2025 Kentucky General Assembly. Senate Bill (SB) 25 now allows local governments to...more
Kentucky local governments now have an additional tool to help address their housing shortages thanks to legislation enacted during the 2025 Kentucky General Assembly. A provision of Senate Bill (SB) 25 authorizes local...more
This month’s Alert updates recent housing legislation, including proposed amendments to the DC Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA), the launch of the DC RentRegistry portal, and updates to Montgomery County's rent...more
On January 8, 2025, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) issued a significant decision in Attorney General v. Town of Milton, SJC-13580, affirming the constitutionality of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation...more
New York City has taken what it intends to be a significant step toward addressing its housing crisis with the City Council’s December 5, 2024, approval of the third, and final, element of Mayor Adams’ City of Yes housing and...more
On December 5, 2024, the New York City Council approved with modifications the NYC Department of City Planning’s (DCP) City of Yes for Housing Opportunity, the third and final of Mayor Adams’ City of Yes initiatives. The new...more
From the campaign trail to the kitchen table, it’s hard to avoid the fact that Oregon has a housing shortage. That crunch is perhaps most severe when it comes to the construction of affordable, multifamily units. Across the...more
The Florida Housing Finance Corporation has recently updated its guidance surrounding the Multifamily Middle Market Certification and its application process, as established by the Live Local Act. This initiative is...more
The Housing Construction and Community Development Committee is currently considering the Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act (the “Act”), a new law allowing religious corporations or certain religious nonprofit corporations...more
Assembly Bill (AB) 3068 (Haney, Quirk-Silva, and Wicks) would provide for the streamlined ministerial (i.e., no CEQA) approval of qualifying adaptive reuse projects involving the conversion of an existing building to...more
New York recently adopted the Affordable Neighborhoods for New Yorkers (ANNY) Tax Incentive and the Affordable Housing from Commercial Conversions (AHCC) Tax Incentive programs, as well as a host of other new and modified...more
On April 20, 2024, after months of negotiations, the New York State Legislature enacted the state’s 2024-2025 Budget (Budget). The Budget represents the most significant state action on housing in several budget cycles and...more
A number of affordable housing components of the New York State Budget Bill are worth calling out for developers, as the moves, along with the hundreds of millions of dollars coming from the state, should spur development. ...more
On October 21, 2022, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development (“EOHED”) issued final guidelines to the Commonwealth’s 177 MBTA communities for compliance with M.G.L. c. 40A, § 3A...more
The city of Berkeley will pay $4 million in connection with its mishandling of an application to build 260 housing units on the old Spenger's parking lot. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch fined Berkeley $2.6...more
On October 21, 2022, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development (“EOHED”) issued final guidelines to the Commonwealth’s 175 MBTA communities for compliance with M.G.L. c. 40A, § 3A...more
Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed legislation authorizing a new tax abatement to promote improvements to affordable housing in New York City. In June 2023, lawmakers in New York State passed the Affordable Housing...more
Governor Newsom recently approved multiple state housing bills passed by the State Assembly and Senate. The following is a summary of a few of the key bills that are expected to benefit multi-family, mixed-income housing...more
While the New York City real estate market has never been for the faint-hearted or undercapitalized, the combination of post-pandemic shifts in office demand and high interest rates has made this the most challenging era...more
The Hermosa Beach City Council unanimously approved its Housing Element, which now must be submitted to the state Department of Housing & Community Development for certification. The state has said Hermosa Beach must build...more