Reason Magazine
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The House of Representatives' $78 billion tax bill expands and tweaks the federal government's program for funding new affordable housing.
This week 's lead item is a rebuttal to the idea that what all Americans really want is to sprawl, baby sprawl.
The sprawling suburbia of New America suggests an alternative shaped by popular desires for a better life.
Portland 's "inclusionary housing" policy has been a poster child for unintended consequences.
Housing advocates are hoping recent changes to the program will transform it into a model for other cities to follow.
Portland 's inclusionary housing policy paired its affordability mandates with property tax abatements meant to make developers whole.
State reforms since 2016 have turned annual ADU construction from a rounding error into a quarter of the state's new housing.
This year , bills have been introduced in Nebraska , Virginia , Massachusetts , Kentucky , and Colorado that would allow ADUs on all residential land and preempt some ADU regulations.
Nebraska 's bill bans all the typical local regulations that can thwart ADUs.
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