Pressure is mounting on the House of Representatives to pass the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which would prohibit institutional investors from buying single family American homes.
A record percentage of Americans live in a single-person household, nearly quadrupling over the past 80 years, according to U.S. Census data.
The Build Back Better Act, or the Democrats’ social and environmental spending bill, includes financial incentives for state and local entities to change zoning laws, specifically those that would replace single-family homes with multi-unit properties to provide more “affordable housing.”
If the Thrive Montgomery 2050 plan is put in place in Maryland multi-unit housing would be incorporated into single-family home neighborhoods.
Academics in California claim segregation still exists in the Bay Area and single family homes there have a legacy of racism.
California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law that increase housing density in single-family-home neighborhoods.
Berkeley, California, is considering a plan to end zoning for single-family homes by December 2022.
Oregon is gearing up to change zoning laws to allow communal living spaces and multi-family units in single-family home neighborhoods.
