We need 1 more vote to keep Phoenix families in their mobile homes
Four left-leaning Phoenix City Council members wrote this opinion piece asking for one more vote to pass a zoning overlay to prevent a mobile home park from being redeveloped and the residents evicted. Unfortunately, it relies on misleading statistics like the idea that Maricopa County renters were evicted in January at the highest rates since […]
Three Million U.S. Households Making Over $150,000 Are Still Renters
More high-income households than ever are renting: Between 2016 and 2021, the number earning $150,000 or more rose 87 percent to result in over three million such households out of the 44 million that rent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The South and Southwest, including Phoenix, saw a surge in high-income renters moving there […]
Local Opinion: Housing crisis needs creativity, not NIMBY-ism
This opinion writer champions creating housing around Tucson on infill sites where roads and utilities already are in place—such as an abandoned golf course in the case of the proposed Quail Canyon—rather than bulldozing pristine desert. She decries the rampant NIMBYism that opposes any new housing from being built near existing neighborhoods, and she suggests […]
Four Areas Lead the Way in Phoenix Region’s Apartment Building Boom
Brand-new data on the Valley’s apartment building boom indicates supply might be overtaking demand, due to 3,500 new units under construction being added to the 16,500 units that came on the market in 2022. This is happening as demand is slowing, probably because of inflation and jitters about the economy. Vacancies were the lowest in […]
Sheraton project OK’d, 2nd complex stalled
An innovative hotel conversion project on a county island in Ahwatukee near the I-10 and Elliot Road got the go-ahead from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, but an office conversion a few miles south near Chandler and I-10 is hung up. The first, a redevelopment of the Four Points by Sheraton Phoenix South Mountain, […]
Zillow’s panel of experts: Fix zoning to improve housing affordability
Zillow polled an independent panel of economists and housing experts about how to ease the nation’s housing crisis. They said the same thing Arizona’s Housing Supply Study Committee and many others have been trumpeting: Zoning reform is the key. The country needs to add more housing, but to do that, exclusionary and restrictive zoning must […]
Minnesota Developer Lands Financing For Planned Affordable Housing Complex Near Phoenix
Buckeye is getting 200 units of affordable housing, thanks to real estate development firm Roers Cos., based near Minneapolis. Merchants Capital out of St. Paul financed the project, Solana Villas, and says it’s expanding its presence in affordable and multifamily housing. The eight-building, garden-style development on 10.7 acres will include a mix of one-, two- […]
Multifamily Keeps Benefiting From Hurting Housing Supply
Multifamily housing is filling a yawning gap for the masses of potential homebuyers that can’t find supply. Over 15 million new households formed from 2012 to 2022, including more than 2 million last year alone, but only 8.5 million homes were completed during that span. Where are those 6.5 million households setting up? In apartments, […]
Housing crisis has ‘waitlist shoppers’ across US vying for few Arizona vouchers
As the housing crisis hits families across the nation, thousands of people from nearly every state are applying for vouchers in other states in hopes of landing an open spot anywhere possible. Glendale alone saw 11,000 applications for 350 openings, and less than 20 percent of those randomly selected were already living there. The supply […]
Yuma County Supervisors vote against approving Foothills rezoning
In a 3-2 vote after a three-hour, standing-room-only meeting, the Yuma County Board of Supervisors caved to NIMBYs and quashed a request for rezoning hundreds of acres around Fortuna Wash for housing. More than 630 naysayers flooded the board with letters of opposition, dragging out the tired tropes of traffic, water, public services, and so […]
