From some current housing articles: A bipartisan consensus around making it easier to build while builders and those in the construction industry have long complained about regulatory hurdles, their concerns weren't reflected among policymakers and the media until housing became unaffordable even for the elite. There was a turning point when college-educated millennials began struggling with the high cost of housing, while similar Americans "in prior generations, at this point in their life, would have been in homes, had some equity, not stretched so thin, starting to build some wealth”. At the same time, the housing shortage has begun to impact communities across the country rather than just large coastal metros. It's led to a rare cross-party alliance. You have the intellectual elite of the progressive side of the ledger kind of merging with what I would describe as the lunch pail builder, developer on the conservative side of the equation. It's a funny situation now because you have Republicans and Democrats basically pushing for broadly the same policies but using radically different rhetoric. Popular deregulatory policies include legalizing accessory dwelling units, eliminating minimum lot size requirements, and rezoning to allow for mixed-use development and more housing near transit. In very blue places, up-zoning or streamlining permit approvals may not even be called deregulation, whereas in redder places, people are more likely to lean into cutting red tape and property rights and letting the market work.

What's happening in your community and how will this affect the urban fabric, for better or worse, as we currently know it?