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Pro-zoning candidates in Caroline, New York, won the elections for town supervisor and three seats on the town board.

Many of our land-use policies have their roots in housing discrimination, and they continue to stand in the way of affordable and equitable housing. These policies need to change. Restricting single-family zoning is a place to start.

The people who could benefit from new housing stock aren't on this map—they're exiled to unincorporated areas.

The people who could benefit from new housing stock aren't on this map—they're exiled to unincorporated areas.

There’s a malaise haunting land use planning—few now question that the system of zoning we inherited has produced cities that are unaffordable, inequitable, segregated, and sprawling. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way: zoning reform is in the air. But why stop at mere reform? As M. Nolan Gray argues in Arbitrary Lines, it’s time for a fundamental rethink of our system of land-use planning.

Can Caroline, New York, resist the imposition of its first-ever zoning code?

Caroline has no zoning code. That makes it an extreme outlier in the United States.

Two new books help explain one of the main public policy drivers of the affordable housing crisis.

Thousands of Hawaii residents have been forced to leave the state in recent years. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 15,000 people left Hawaii in 2022.

In Caroline, New York, officials are trying to impose the city's first zoning code. These residents won't have it.