Cities and towns can flex a new zoning tool to build starter homes and boost opportunities for homeownership.

New programs and technologies are delivering the critical starter home supply that the country needs for stronger communities and economies.

If you want to understand why the American starter home seems to have gone extinct, don’t look at greedy developers, rapacious investors or discriminating banks. Look at the government policies that ...

At its core, the template is a zoning framework whose beauty lies in its simplicity. It gives local governments a clear legal ...

Between inflation, high interest rates and wage stagnation, it can feel harder than ever to make the dream of home ownership real. And some markets are definitely tougher to shop in than others. But ...

Will 2026 be remembered as the year of the starter home? Since January, bills have been introduced in Florida, Connecticut, Maryland and at least nine other state legislatures to allow smaller houses ...

Will 2026 be remembered as the year of the starter home? Since January, bills have been introduced in Florida, Connecticut, Maryland and at least nine other state legislatures to allow smaller houses ...

BRAINERD — Lakes Area Habitat for Humanity joined hundreds of local Habitat organizations and affordable housing advocates recently on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. to ask Congress to take action ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A suite of legislation working through the Idaho Senate hopes to make housing easier to come by — and cheaper to pay for — ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's zoning practices have made homebuilding more expensive and burdensome, a Republican lawmaker told his colleagues, urging their support for a bill he said would change things in ...