Zoning Reforms to Mitigate America’s Affordable Housing Crisis

No one tool can solve a problem as seemingly intractable as the lack of affordable housing in the U.S., but many cities recognize that zoning reform can be a valuable catalyst to increase all types of housing supply.

“The silver lining is that the affordable housing crisis is so severe that this is one of the top issues facing constituents, so politicians are more likely to address it,” says M. Nolan Gray, a Los Angeles–based city planner and the author of Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. “For example, dozens of cities scrapped their exclusionary single-family home zoning and parking requirements in the past few years, which was previously inconceivable.”

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