Housing abundance is the only durable strategy for low-income families to have the kinds of homes they need and desire.
Housing
The best pathway to housing affordability is housing abundance. Americans need more housing of all shapes and sizes to meet their diverse needs. That’s critical to restoring homeownership, a central component of the American Dream.
America’s growing housing crisis is a self-inflicted wound, stemming from harmful zoning regulations that infringe on individual property rights and curtail housing supply. Unaffordable housing is making it harder to start and grow a family, stay in someone’s community, and live where they want.
The path to housing abundance begins with removing burdensome regulations that stop developers from building the homes communities want and need. It also includes ensuring speedy permitting and providing certainty for developers.
All Housing
FREOPP’s approach is unapologetically market-oriented, but it is not indifferent to the real, everyday pain families are feeling.
To create such a main street from scratch today, a suburb or small town would have to discard typical zoning
They talk about affordability, zoning, fire codes, NIMBYism, discretionary review, and how to craft policy for housing abundance.
Strengthening property rights and allowing traditional housing would lead to more family-friendly communities.
More Americans will have the opportunity to live in affordable homes as the regulations that limit small multifamily housing fall.
FREOPP continues to lead policy reforms that will improve the lives of Americans who need help most
Pennsylvania's underproduction of homes is because of zoning, which restricts what property owners can build