AUSTIN, Texas — Austin leaders want to fill downtown with more skyscrapers and were hoping to get it done under the downtown Density Bonus Program. But a new state law is forcing them to change plans.

AUSTIN, Texas — Members of the Austin City Council have taken a step to overhaul a program meant to address affordable housing. On Thursday, city leaders approved a resolution to give the city room to ...

Austin planners are scrambling to recalibrate downtown development rules after a new state law stripped cities of their power to regulate density. Before the law, Austin used FAR caps to control size ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The city of Savannah recently passed and Affordable Housing Overlay District, which approves where a new density bonus for ...

An ADU complex in the Golden Hill. (File photo by Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters The City Council is about to gut a housing program in San Diego that works. The irony is this is not because of budget ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The Density Bonus 90, or DB90 ...

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The city is proposing a bonus program that would allow for increased units per acre in exchange for affordable housing.

Everyone now agrees that we need more homes. The public has caught up to where economists have been for decades — high prices are driven by a shortage of homes. It’s a matter of supply and demand.