With their recently approved platform that calls for loosening zoning, Texas Democrats may find common ground with Republicans on housing affordability crisis.
Texas Democrats and Republicans may be approaching a bipartisan consensus on how to tackle the state’s housing affordability crisis at a time when a majority of Texans say they spend too much money on keeping a roof over their heads. The Texas Democratic Party last weekend adopted a platform that includes calls to relax local zoning regulations that determine what kinds of housing can be built and where.
West Side church explores building affordable housing on extra land Housing advocates and policy experts have increasingly placed a good chunk of the blame for that shortage on cities’ zoning regulations that regulate, among other things, how much land a single-family home must sit on and whether other kinds of housing like duplexes and small apartment buildings can be built alongside single-family homes.
Vacant building on near West Side could become affordable housing for seniors “The problem of housing has become too big and widespread for members of either party to ignore,” said Joshua Blank, research director of the Texas Lyceum poll. “It doesn’t really matter whether you see your constituency as primarily urban, primarily suburban, or primarily rural: all three are facing a problem when it comes to housing costs. And ultimately, housing costs don’t discriminate by party.
Legislature changes rules on controversial tax breaks used to incentivize affordable housing House Democrats, in the minority, led a successful charge to kill last year’s granny flats proposal, in part because they felt cities should choose what kind of housing they allow, not the state. The state ultimately grants cities their zoning authority.
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