On Dec. 4, 2025, The Pew Charitable Trusts, International Code Council (ICC), National League of Cities, and the American Planning Association hosted a roundtable of local planning and building officials and national housing stakeholders and experts.

In the 1970s, as rapid inflation squeezed American families’ budgets, elected officials felt pressured to take visible actions to help their constituents.

With no relief from high home prices and rents, more and more state legislators are interested in pursuing housing reform. As a result, state legislatures set new records for the number and strength of new laws intended to unlock homebuilding.

In this multi-part series, we join an analysis of a novel database of municipal zoning reform efforts across the United States with an argument for the necessity of a tenant-inflected zoning reform, as a method and approach to ground future zo

Since 2021, developers in Minneapolis have started to build new housing with significantly less parking, suggesting an untapped demand for parking-free or parking-light housing options.

Major changes to planning laws and regulations relating to the use of public spaces is needed to encourage greener transport use.  The Transport Planning Society (TPS) has published a new report, Just The Ticket!, which outlines no less…

The Regional Plan Association published “Parking Policy Is Housing Policy: How Reducing Parking Requirements Stimulates Affordable Housing Production.”

New York City can use our 32,000 acres of roadway to prevent flooding and adapt to climate change, support transportation alternatives and better goods movement, and expand access to economic opportunity. Here's how.

TransForm analyzed plans for housing at several urban rail stations, offering ideas about how to best achieve goals on reducing single occupant vehicle trips to transit stations.

By Karen Chapple, Ph.D., Dori Ganetsos, and Emmanuel Lopez

The mayor's parking commission recommended 21 potential changes after the city's contract with ParkMedford/REEF Parking expires this fall.

Strategies > Transportation Demand Management > Parking Availability and Pricing

What if cities and communities rethought parking policy and designed it not only to serve transportation goals but also equity goals? Leading with equity creates better transportation options for all. It also opens up new ways of looking at traditional problems and solutions. This includes the commo