Urban Land Magazine
By: Mary Shanklin
February 24th, 2020

Whether it’s evaluating the negative impacts of single-family zoning in cities or blending single-family rental communities with apartments, developers are working to create more housing by taking new approaches, said panelists during the 2020 ULI Tampa Trends event.

Overhauling Zoning, Rents, Wages

In the realm of local government, Minneapolis has shifted paradigms by controlling rents, boosting minimum wages, and eliminating single-family zoning—reforms likely to spur discussion elsewhere.

It started a few years ago when officials took stock of the city’s historic track record dealing with minority communities, said Heather Worthington, director of long-range planning for the city.

“We had a lot of gentrification, but it was displacement,” Worthington said. “We want gentrification without displacing resi… (click here to read the remainder of the article)