NAHB

2025 State of Zoning Reform: Trends, Tools, and Impact From the Past 5 Years

Companion report to the NAHB "Mapping Zoning Reform Across the United States", highlighting national and regional zoning reform trends.

NAHB

Mapping Zoning Reform Across the United States

NAHB’s Mapping Zoning Reform Across the United States webpage is an interactive resource designed to help users quickly understand where and how zoning and land use reforms are being adopted across the United States. These maps translate complex policies into an accessible visual format, allowing users to see patterns, gaps, and momentum in zoning reform at the state, county, and local levels.

Urban Land

From Vision to Viability: The Terwilliger Center’s 2025 Award Winners and Housing Innovation

Five new case studies based on the Terwilliger Center’s 2025 award winners: Market Street Village in San Diego, Sendero Verde in New York City, The Aster in Salt Lake City, The Kelsey Ayer Station in San José, and The Wilder in Nashville. Each of them offers an important, in-depth look at the financing structures, development strategies, community partnerships, and public policies that make such ambitious projects viable.

Urban Land

Finding Stability Amid Volatility: What’s Next for the Cost of Housing Development

Leaders from across the development and construction industries discussed how they are adapting to a volatile yet stabilizing housing landscape.

Urban Land

Sacred Space: Churches Turn Surplus Land into Housing

As congregations across North America grapple with shrinking membership and aging facilities, a new opportunity is emerging: transforming faith-owned land into affordable housing and community-serving spaces.

ULI Indiana

Redevelopment of the Former Indiana Women’s Prison Site

A report presenting recommendations for the equitable redevelopment of the former Indiana Women’s Prison site in Indianapolis.

ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing

Building the Future 2025

This year’s flagship report from the Urban Land Institute's Terwilliger Center for Housing: Building the Future 2025: Transformative Trends in State, Local, and Federal Housing Policy.

Jacobsville Area Community Corporation, Evansville, Indiana

Jacobsville Redevelopment Area Master Plan

Housing policy recommendations for the Jacobsville Redevelopment Area Master Plan, Evansville, Indiana

Southern Indiana Development Commission

Southern Indiana Housing Resilience Initiative: Program Guide

A strategic framework to address housing challenges and support sustainable development in Southern Indiana.

Kosciusko County Community Foundation

Affordable Housing Strategies for Kosciusko County

This report informs efforts in Kosciusko County, Indiana to identify project, programmatic, and partnership solutions to meet the affordable housing needs for low- and moderate-income residents.

ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing

Case Study: PAH! Hiland Plaza

PAH! Hiland Plaza was awarded the 2024 ULI Terwilliger Center Award for Innovation in Attainable Housing

ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing

Case Study: Chattanooga Missing Middle Housing

Chattanooga Missing Middle Housing was awarded the 2024 ULI Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award

ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing

Case Study: The Laureate - Derwood, Maryland

The Laureate was awarded the 2024 ULI Jack Kemp Award for Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing

ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing

Case Study: 425 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, NY

425 Grand Concourse is a winner of 2024 ULI Terwilliger Center Award for Innovation in Attainable Housing

City of Bloomington, Ind.

Expanding Housing Opportunities in Bloomington

Presentation prepared for the Bloomington, Indiana City Council on how zoning reforms can help add to a greater mix of housing types and support a vibrant, inclusive community.

City of Bloomington, Ind.

Consolidated Plan CP/AI Public and Stakeholder Meeting Input

Organized and led nine public meetings/stakeholder workshops to support the development of the 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan and Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice for the City of Bloomington.

Urban Land Institute

Building the Future: Innovations in State and Local Policies to Boost Housing Supply

An in-depth exploration of the innovative policies that state and local governments across the U.S. are adopting to tackle the country’s pressing housing shortages.

ULI Indiana

Lebanon: Elevating the Community with Areas of Opportunity

The City of Lebanon and the Boone Economic Development Corporation sought guidance from a ULI Indiana Technical Assistance Panel on a mixed-use area southwest of Lebanon’s downtown district with industrial, retail, and residential uses.

ULI Indiana

Developing New Mixed-Use Options on West Michigan Street

A report from a ULI Indiana Technical Assistance Panel (TAP) on how to foster growth, inclusivity, and vibrancy in the Near Westside with the redevelopment of nearly 5 acres of vacant land on West Michigan Street in the Haughville neighborhood of Indianapolis.

Urban Land

Legalizing More Housing Construction with State and Local Innovations

Making infill development easier, adding a state role to local land-use controls, and connecting housing with transit were some of the top trends in housing policy that emerged at the 2024 ULI/Charles H. Shaw Forum on Urban Community Issues. The forum topic, “State and Local Innovations to Expand Housing Opportunities,” reflected something that many communities around the United States are grappling with: dire housing shortages.

Urban Land

New Opportunities and Challenges for Financing Affordable Housing

In the session “Financing Tools to Make Affordable Deals Pencil” at the 2024 ULI Housing Opportunity Conference, panelists shared a variety of tools and strategies designed to support the production of more affordable housing.

Urban Land Institute

Case Study: Caton Flats

Caton Flats transformed a Caribbean vendors’ market and municipal surface parking lot in Brooklyn, New York. The new construction, mixed-use property retained the existing marketplace, added office and commercial space, parking, and mixed-income housing.

Urban Land Institute

Case Study: Broadway Lofts

Broadway Lofts is a mixed-use development on a former brownfield site in the heart of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, in the middle of the state’s lower peninsula. Mt. Pleasant is a rural city with a population of 21,688 full-time residents, as well as home to 14,000 students at Central Michigan University. Broadway Lofts was awarded the 2023 Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Awards by the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing.

Urban Land

Leveraging Land for More U.S. Housing with Innovative Partnerships

Communities can add to local housing supply by leveraging underutilized land owned by houses of worship and school districts, according to panelists at “Innovative Partnerships to Leverage Land for More Housing,” at the 2024 ULI Housing Opportunity Conference.