American attitudes around home affordability will determine whether Congress treats housing as a priority or as another talking point to be dropped between election cycles.
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A fight over ground-floor retail mandates could become one of the most consequential zoning debates of 2026, with Washington state lawmakers moving to curb mandatory storefronts in new residential buildings. A bill in the Washington state Senate would flip the script on commercial zoning, requiring cities with more than 30,000 residents to allow housing by…
The past couple of years have been a whirlwind for industry veteran Lacey Conway. In the spring of 2024, her family firm Latter & Blum, of which she had been serving as CEO, was acquired by Compass, where she would later go on to serve as the executive vice president of mergers and acquisitions. Conway’s latest…
With a third or so of the public homebuilders’ first 2026 earnings cycle complete, the theme and variations – guidance misses, land impairments, margin compressions, even a net-negative-earnings or two, with the rare upside surprise – confirm it’s one of the most grinding, grueling selling environments in more than a decade. Step back from the…