The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has approved a resolution amending the city’s planning code to encourage the conversion of commercial buildings into housing. The amendment will remove select fees and application...more
The New York City Council on Dec. 5, 2024, approved the third and final proposal of Mayor Eric Adams' City of Yes zoning initiative, the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity (COY HO). COY HO is a comprehensive set of changes...more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado may have a profound impact on inclusionary zoning ordinances and bylaws in Massachusetts. I suspect few of those regulations – if challenged – will...more
On September 5, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors finally passed on second reading two pieces of legislation, together referred to as the “Housing Fee Reform Plan.” The Plan, previously discussed on July 7, July 21, and...more
The “Housing Fee Reform Plan” legislation, which we reported on previously, is heading back to the Board of Supervisors next week. On Monday, July 24, the Board’s Land Use and Transportation Committee will consider the two...more
The Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia (OAG) filed a petition in December 2021 to amend Subtitle I of the Zoning Regulations to apply the Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) program to currently exempt Downtown...more
In an Executive Directive dated February 7, 2023, Mayor London Breed declared that “San Francisco needs to fundamentally change how we approve and build housing.” The Directive, titled “Housing For All,” comes on the heels of...more
CITY HALL- Chief of Staff to Mayor Kenney to Resign, Join ChristianaCare in Executive Role- Jim Engler, the Chief of Staff to Mayor Jim Kenney, has announced that he will be resigning at the end of the month to accept a...more
DC Mayor Muriel E. Bowser's administration continues to seek ways to achieve its goal of building 12,000 new dedicated affordable housing units by 2025. In the year since the city's Zoning Commission approved "IZ Plus," an...more
On March 8, 2022, Mayor Ras J. Baraka introduced amendments to the City of Newark’s Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance (“IZO”) that may have far reaching impact on residential development in the City. The proposed amendments...more
On February 8, 2022, the Housing Affordability Task Force reported to the Government of Ontario on the state of the housing market in Ontario. Its 33-page Report makes 55 recommendations intended to remove impediments to the...more
On December 2, 2021, the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia (OAG), filed four petitions with the Zoning Commission (ZC) to amend the Zoning Regulations as an effort to increase the supply of...more
The Toronto City Council adopted an Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) policy framework during the Council meeting from November 9-12, 2021, making it mandatory for certain new residential developments to include affordable housing....more
CITY HALL - Councilmembers Quiñones-Sánchez and Gauthier Look to Reform Affordable Housing Requirements - New legislation proposed by Councilmembers Maria Quiñones-Sánchez and Jamie Gauthier is taking aim at how the city...more
The District of Columbia Office of Planning (OP) recently issued a status report in response to a request by the Zoning Commission (Commission) to review the existing Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) program and provide...more
At the conclusion of its public hearing on Nov. 16, 2020, the Zoning Commission for the District of Columbia (Commission) took proposed action on Z.C. Case No. 20-02, which proposes text amendments to the Zoning Regulations...more
The San Francisco Jobs Housing Linkage Fee (JHLF) is set to more than double under the “Housing for SF Workers” ordinance recently passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (Ordinance). Mayor London Breed refused to...more
In the spring of 2017, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a major overhaul of the City’s inclusionary housing fee provisions. ...more
Against the backdrop of a deepening affordable housing crisis in California, the U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to review a decision of the California Court of Appeal upholding the City of West Hollywood’s inclusionary...more
Many of our clients have asked us how they can avail themselves of the state’s revamped 421-a tax exemption program — the Affordable New York Housing Program — on a project that is also subject to the city’s Mandatory...more
San Francisco wasted no time implementing AB 1505, which authorizes localities to adopt ordinances requiring developers to provide on-site inclusionary affordable housing units in rental projects, provided that there is an...more
The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 30, 2017, denied a petition for certiorari filed by the developers of an 11-unit residential condominium project in the City of West Hollywood seeking to challenge the application by the City of...more
A package of 15 new housing bills will have far-reaching implications for every city in California. Collectively, these new laws are meant to significantly boost affordable housing production by removing local land use...more
On September 29, 2017, Governor Brown signed into law a 15-bill housing package. The housing package did not include AB 915, which would have authorized the City and County of San Francisco to impose local inclusionary...more
Governor Brown has signed 15 bills designed to address the State’s severe shortage of affordable housing. Among its other effects, the legislation will (1) generate funds for affordable housing developments; (2) require...more