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Housing Industry Update 2025 - Mid-Year Report

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Across the United States, empty office buildings have become a common sight. According to Moody’s Analytics, office vacancies are at their highest since the 1990s. The COVID hangover has left us with an abundance of vacant or...more

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Inflation and Rising Costs Won’t Slow Multifamily Momentum

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Vacancy rates across the state are showing improvement, particularly in San Francisco, which reflects California’s housing shortage. Demand also remains strong, and supply is growing, suggesting confidence in the sector...more

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Land Banks & Community Land Trusts Creating “Permanently” Affordable Housing

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Land banks and community land trusts (CLTs) are non-profit corporations each formed under Ohio law. They share similar missions to unlock the potential of vacant, abandoned, and/or tax-delinquent (VAD) properties....more

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City of Yes Proposal Offers Increased Housing Development Opportunities

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For over a year now, the City of Yes (“CoY”) zoning update, which aims to bring back more flexibility and density in development across the City, has been a hot topic of conversation in the New York City development sphere....more

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2024 Massachusetts Affordable Housing Bill Includes Provisions Intended to Promote Residential Housing Construction: What You Need...

The Massachusetts Affordable Homes Act (H. 4977), signed into law on August 6, 2024, includes provisions intended to promote residential housing construction. These provisions: (1) require municipalities to permit accessory...more

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Sustainable Development and Land Use Update 11.09.23

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The Biden administration is launching a multi-agency effort to encourage states and cities to convert more empty office buildings into housing units, with billions of federal dollars available to help spur such transitions....more

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Critical State Housing Laws Approved by Governor Newsom

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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

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What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: September 2023

A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco - These three new blocks of housing are among S.F.’s best. They’re for the formerly homeless (S.F. Chronicle): Exploring three recently...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Hotel and Office Conversions — an Update

Since January 2021, multiple proposals were introduced in the New York State legislature to permit underutilized hotel and/or office buildings, many of which have become financially distressed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

The Governor’s Proposed Commercial Conversion Initiative

On Jan. 19, 2021, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo proposed an amendment to Section 277 of the New York State Multiple Dwelling Law (MDL) that would “authorize flexibility in zoning to address high commercial vacancy rates and...more

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