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Starter Homes Live in Texas, Die in Arizona
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's stories include: A win for starter homes in Texas… …and a defeat for them in Arizona A new constitutional challenge to affordable housing fees in Denver A veto of a rent-recommendation algorithm ban in Colorado After suffering a near-death experience last week, Texas' Senate Bill 15, a.k.a. the Texas Starter Homes Act, has passed the Legislature and now goes to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk. The bill would prevent larger cities in larger counties from requiring that homes sit on lots larger than 3,000 square feet in new subdivisions of at least five acres. Proponents argue the bill will enable the construction of more inherently affordable owner-occupied housing in cities that currently require much larger minimum lot sizes. "Texas is the first state to take seriously the idea that a basic starter home, without any subsidy, is usually affordable to people making average or below average incomes, [and] should be available throughout the state," says Salim Furth, a researcher at George Mason University's Mercatus Center. Minimum lot size bills have been one of the more controversial and less successful YIMBY reforms in state legislatures. Texas' bill is one of the first to make it over the finish line. The initial version of S.B. 15 would have capped minimum lot sizes at 1,400 square feet, which mirrors unzoned Houston's minimum lot sizes. That version passed the Senate back in March but was watered down in negotiations between the House and Senate during last-minute considerations of the bill. The legislation survived an effort by Texas House Democrats to effectively gut the legislation. Rep. Ramon Romero Jr. (D–Fort Worth) briefly succeeded in amending the bill to only require that cities create a starter home zoning district with the smaller minimum lot sizes. The amendment would not have required cities to actually apply this new zoning district to existing land or to new subdivisions. This would have effectively made S.B. 15 a voluntary paperwork exercise. Romero, who also briefly managed to kill S.B. 15 via a procedural move in the House earlier in May, has criticized the idea that allowing smaller homes on smaller lots would yield more affordable homes. "It's already been proven that just because you have smaller (homes) does not immediately equate to more affordable (homes)," he said to The Texas Tribune last month. (One study of minimum lot size reductions in Houston, Texas, facilitated an "unprecedented" increase in the rates of infill housing construction in single-family neighborhoods.) That gutting amendment was stripped out of the bill in last-minute negotiations between the House and the Senate, meaning that S.B. 15 will have some teeth, provided that Abbott signs it into law. While the bill does not apply to existing residential areas, Furth says it will provide developers a lot more flexibility when constructing new subdivisions, where most new housing in Texas is being built. "Most single-family home production in Texas is done in non-residential or extremely large lots. A normal Texas subdivision is going to be five-plus acres, and maybe 100 acres," he tells Reason. "This will allow [builders] to include small homes in that mix and make sure there's a variety of price points and variety of styles." Meanwhile, in Arizona, a near-identical Starter Home Act is effectively dead in the Legislature. Similar to Texas' S.B. 15, Arizona's S.B. 1229 initially would have prevented cities from requiring homes in new five-acre-plus subdivisions to sit on lots of 1,500 square feet or more. It also would have prohibited cities from dictating home designs and aesthetic features. As in Texas, the bill was amended to raise its minimum lot size cap to 3,000 square feet. That helped get the legislation out of the Senate on a 16–13 vote, with Republicans and Democrats on each side of the vote. Two House committees also approved the bill in March and early April. But it then stalled over what proponents say was persistent opposition from the Arizona League of Cities and Towns and Gov. Katie Hobbs' office. Hobbs vetoed a very similar starter homes bill last year, citing concerns that that bill didn't explicitly carve out areas near military bases or explicitly include fire safety standards. The governor's concerns were incorporated into S.B. 1229. Yet the League, a taxpayer-funded association that lobbies on behalf of local governments, still opposed the measure's limits on local land use regulation. The League had pushed for amendments to S.B. 1229 that would have dramatically limited its scope by imposing price and income limits on new starter homes and requiring that buyers live in the homes for 15 years. These demands were a nonstarter with proponents of S.B. 1229, and negotiations on a compromise measure broke down earlier this spring. "Our last meeting was about an hour and a half in the governor's office. I could tell [the governor's staff] were not going to come over to our side at all. They were literally letting the League [of Cities and Towns] run the table," Sen. Shawna Bolick (R–Phoenix) tells Reason. With the threat of Hobbs' veto hanging over S.B. 1229, the bill was never brought up for a floor vote. Despite the failure of the starter homes bill, Arizona did pass a handful of other housing reforms. That includes House Bill 2928, which expands last year's statewide legalization of accessory dwelling units in cities to unincorporated county land as well. The state also passed a bill allowing for third-party plan reviews of single-family projects. A homebuilder in Denver is suing the city over what it says are unconstitutional affordable housing fees being slapped on two of its pending residential projects. Denver's Linkage Fee ordinance requires residential projects of 10 units or less to either set aside units to be rented or sold at below-market rates or pay per-square-foot "linkage" fees. When local builder redT Homes sought approval for two projects, a four-unit single-family home development and a two-duplex project, the city said it would need to pay linkage fees of $45,000 and $25,000 on each respective project. A string of U.S. Supreme Court decisions has established that the Fifth Amendment protects property owners from having to turn over money or property when applying for a development permit, unless there's some nexus between those exactions and the actual impact caused by the permitted project. Denver claimed when passing its linkage fee ordinance in 2016 that new development raises economic activity and, therefore, raises demand for work-force housing. redT counters that its planned homes are making housing more affordable, not less, by expanding overall housing supply. By charging it an affordable linkage fee anyway, Denver is charging it for an impact it's not having. That, it argues, violates the Fifth Amendment's protections against "unconstitutional conditions." redT Homes is suing Denver in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. "These affordable housing fees almost by definition fail" the Supreme Court's test for unconstitutional conditions, says David Deerson, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, which is representing redT Homes. "A fundamental law of economics is that an increase in supply tends to lower prices. Denver can't force developers like redT Homes to pay fees to solve problems that not only are they not creating, they're already solving," he says. A favorable federal court ruling for redT Homes could have major implications for housing development nationwide. Like Denver, hundreds of jurisdictions have adopted similar "inclusionary zoning" policies that require housing developers to include below-market-rate units in their projects or pay in-lieu affordable housing fees. And like Denver's linkage fees, a similar constitutional argument can be made that inclusionary zoning's affordable housing mandates take developers' property to mitigate an impact they're not having. Developers and property rights advocates have periodically challenged inclusionary zoning laws in court, typically with little success. In 2019, the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Marin County, California's inclusionary zoning policy that the California Supreme Court had upheld. (The Pacific Legal Foundation also litigated that case.) The Supreme Court's 2024 decision in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado established that fees and permit conditions imposed on whole classes of projects by legislatures must still have some connection to those projects' impacts. The Sheetz decision was a narrow one. It didn't directly deal with inclusionary zoning. But it did widen the universe of permit conditions that can be challenged as "unconstitutional conditions." Potentially, a new inclusionary zoning case with a new set of facts might pick up this Court's interest and result in a decision that puts some guardrails on affordable housing mandates and fees. On pure policy grounds, inclusionary zoning acts as a tax on development, reducing production and raising costs. Ending these policies could unlock a lot of potential new projects. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has vetoed a bill that would have banned the use of rent-recommendation software. Proponents of the bill argue that this software facilitates price-fixing among landlords by sharing nonpublic data on prices and vacancies between competitors. Colorado, along with a number of other states and the U.S. Department of Justice, is currently suing rent-recommendation software provider RealPage for antitrust violations. Polis said in a veto letter, posted online by Colorado Public Radio, that while he shares concerns that this software could be used to drive up prices, the measure was overly broad. "We should not inadvertently take a tool off the table that could identify vacancies and provide consumers with meaningful data to help efficiently manage residential real estate to ensure people can access housing," said the governor in his veto letter. "This bill may have unintended consequences of creating a hostile environment for providers of rental housing and could result in further diminished supply of rental housing based on inadequate data," he wrote. The governor said he would prefer for state and federal lawsuits to play out. He said he'd be open to a future bill that made a distinction between collusive and noncollusive uses of nonpublic competitor data. Read Reason's past coverage of the RealPage controversy here. New York City's rent-stabilized housing stock is in increasing financial distress, thanks to rising operating costs and the city's suppression of rent increases. To remedy the situation, New York assembly member, and New York City mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani is proposing to remedy the situation by freezing rents. Los Angeles Times covers the California Legislature's efforts to exclude urban infill housing from the state's notoriously burdensome environmental review process. Organized labor is cool on the effort, altruistically asking, "What's in it for us?" The biggest opponents of a public housing redevelopment project in New York City? The [wrong link here] of multimillion-dollar homes nearby. The Connecticut Legislature has passed a major housing bill that requires localities to zone for more affordable housing, increases density near transit stops, and pares back minimum parking requirements. The post Starter Homes Live in Texas, Die in Arizona appeared first on
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01-06-2025
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Texas lawmakers to allow smaller homes on smaller lots
Texas lawmakers have sent a scaled-back zoning proposal to allow smaller homes on smaller lots to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk — a bid to put a dent in the state's high home prices. Lawmakers in the Texas House and Senate passed Senate Bill 15 this weekend after the proposal to give builders the flexibility to build smaller houses in the state's largest cities kicked up heat from House Democrats, who repeatedly tried to kill the bill. The Senate approved the bill by a unanimous vote Saturday. The bill was more controversial in the House, where lawmakers endorsed the latest version by a slimmer 78-57 vote Sunday. The bill found bipartisan support in the House, where a majority of Democrats and Republicans voted in favor. 'These are homes your employees, your kids and grandkids can afford,' said state Rep. Gary Gates, a Richmond Republican who carried the bill in the House. SB 15's passage caps off a session in which lawmakers passed an array of bills intended to tackle the state's high housing costs, primarily by cutting local regulations and red tape in order to allow more homes to be built. Texas needs hundreds of thousands more homes than it has, according to one estimate. That shortage, housing advocates and experts have argued, played a key role in driving up Texas home prices and rents as the state boomed. This year, state lawmakers sought to mitigate that shortage with a package of bills that would supersede local zoning ordinances and reduce other hurdles to building homes. Among the most far-reaching proposals they sent to Abbott would make it harder for residents to stop new homes from being built and allow apartments and mixed-use developments in more places, like retail and commercial corridors, in the state's largest cities. SB 15, a top priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who runs the Senate, aims to force the state's biggest cities to allow smaller homes on smaller lots in some places. Doing so gives homebuilders more latitude when it comes to the size of homes they're allowed to build. Homes on smaller lots have generally been found to be less expensive than homes on bigger ones, research has shown. The bill bars major cities from requiring homes in new subdivisions to sit on more than 3,000 square feet. That's down from 1,400 square feet, which the Senate initially pitched. The state's biggest cities often require single-family homes to sit on around 5,000 to 7,500 square feet of land, a Texas Tribune analysis found. SB 15 doesn't touch existing neighborhoods, and only would apply in new subdivisions with at least five acres of land. If Abbott signs it, the bill would only apply to cities with at least 150,000 residents in counties with a population of 300,000 or more. Some 19 of the state's largest cities fit that criterion, per a Tribune analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. It also wouldn't apply in cases in which homeowners association and restrictive covenants prevent smaller lot sizes. The proposal spurred a lot of drama in the last days of the legislative session. The idea of the state telling cities what kinds of homes they can allow didn't sit well with a contingent of House Democrats, who tried repeatedly to kill the bill on procedural grounds or gut it. They and some Republicans argued local residents wouldn't get a chance to weigh in on new development resulting from the bill if it passed. 'Leave it up to the cities that know what's best for their city,' state Rep. Ramon Romero, D-Worth, said. Romero successfully amended the bill on the House floor last week so the bill would only apply if cities adopted a new zoning category that allowed homes to the smaller lot size outlined in the bill. That provision would have effectively rendered the bill useless, the bill's proponents argued. House and Senate lawmakers ripped that amendment out of the bill in negotiations between the two chambers. House Democrats had railed against the bill — taking seemingly contradictory approaches. Romero argued that homes built on smaller lots wouldn't necessarily be cheaper. Meanwhile, state Rep. Barbara Gervin-Hawkins, D-San Antonio, questioned Gates last week about whether the bill would create 'future ghettos.' Some Republicans, too, objected. State Rep. Tony Tinderholt, an Arlington Republican considered one of the House's most conservative members, argued the bill would eventually lead to higher crime in places that saw homes on smaller lots. Other bills lawmakers sent to Abbott aimed to make it easier to convert vacant office buildings into residences and would force cities to allow manufactured homes. They also relaxed local rules in college towns that say how many unrelated adults can live in a home. Other ideas to allow more homes died quietly this session. A proposal to make it easier to build additional dwelling units in the backyards of single-family homes, which died in the House two years ago, missed a key deadline last week and died before it could come up for a vote. Another idea to allow houses of worship to build homes on their land never made it to the House or Senate floor. First round of TribFest speakers announced! Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd; U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio; Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker; U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-California; and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas are taking the stage Nov. 13–15 in Austin. Get your tickets today!
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28-05-2025
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Texas House revives zoning reform bill to lower minimum lot sizes
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Senate Bill 15 — which prevents larger cities from imposing minimum residential lot sizes of 3,000 square feet or larger — appeared to be dead on Sunday. State Rep. Ramon Romero Jr., D-Fort Worth, had called a point of order on the bill, claiming a population bracket improperly restricted a political subdivision. He was correct. 'The bill as reported from committee exempted from its application a location that is, among other things, within 'one mile of a campus of the perimeter of a law enforcement training center in a county that has a population of 2,600,000 or more but less than 2,700,000,' the House journal from Sunday reads. 'The chair notes that the rule permits the use of minimum or maximum population in a bill to limit its application, but not both. Here, the bracket includes only Dallas County. The chair would be required to find a reasonable relationship between the location of a law enforcement training center in Dallas County and the bill's purpose of increasing the housing supply…The chair can find no such relationship.' When a point of order is sustained, the bill must go back to committee to fix the error before going back through the process to reach the House floor. That presented a problem for SB 15, as the bill had to be voted on by Tuesday at midnight, and the bills to be brought up on deadline day had to be cemented on Sunday night. Quickly, legislators got to work to fix the bill in time. At 2:50 p.m., SB 15 was sent back to committee, and by 6:52 p.m. it was in the hands of the calendars committee, who controls the docket of bills for each day. The calendars committee earmarked SB 15 for Tuesday's major state calendar that night, pushing it to the top of docket. Another lawmaker tried to get the bill killed again, saying it was expedited improperly. 'I respectfully raise a point-of-order against further consideration of Senate Bill 15 on the grounds the bill was improperly placed on the major state calendar,' State Rep. Barbara Gervin-Hawkins, D-San Antonio, said. Items placed on the major state calendar must be of importance to the entire state. Gervin-Hawkins argued this bill shouldn't qualify, because it's application is limited to municipalities with over 150,000 people. After a lengthy delay, her point of order was overruled. 'The bill is a major reform of state land use law and will have major implications for housing and economic activity throughout the state,' State Rep. Brooks Landgraf, R-Odessa, said as he presided over the Speaker's desk. 'Additionally, rule 6, section 25, gives the committee on calendars wide discretion over which calendar it will place a bill on. The point of order is respectfully overruled.' After a pair of amendments, the bill passed a third reading with a 87-48 vote. SB 15 aims to reduce housing prices by improving housing availability. Austin recently changed their minimum lot size for single-family homes from 5,750 square feet to 1,800 square feet. Houston changed their to 1,400 square feet for certain residences within the city center in 1998, expanding it to the whole city in 2013. A Pew study claims this allowed single-family homes to be replaced with townhouses, opening up more affordable housing options. 'We're looking down a very bleak future [if we don't take action],' Nicole Nosek, founder of Texans for Reasonable Solutions, said. 'We're looking at a situation where not only are we not going to be able to have our kids and our grandkids live in the same city that they grew up in, but on top of that — all this flourishing economic activity that we're seeing move to Texas, we jeopardize that by not allowing the middle class to own a piece of the American dream of home ownership.' SB 15 aims to mandate the changes Austin and Houston voluntarily went through. The bill prevents a municipality with over 150,000 people from imposing a minimum lot size less than 3,000 square feet (changed from 1,500 square feet with a floor amendment). While the idea sailed through both the Senate and House committees unanimously, and passed the Senate floor 29-2, there was pushback in the House, particularly from those representing the Dallas-Fort-Worth area. 'I don't want to take away the ability for my city and the people of my city to be able to control the size of the lots and the homes that are put there,' State Rep. Tony Tinderholt, R-Arlington, said. 'I own a security company, and I'll tell you that these high-density locations cost hundred of thousands and sometimes a couple million of dollars a year to secure after they've been there 10-20 years because they become crime-ridden.' The opposition was bipartisan. 'Do you believe that residents should be silenced when it comes to your law that is affecting someone's neighborhood? When they bought their home, they moved into a single-family residential area,' Romero said. 'You don't believe that people should have their voice heard?' SB 15 will be heard for a third reading on Wednesday. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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27-05-2025
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Texas House OKs bill to allow smaller homes on smaller lots amid housing affordability crunch
The Texas House gave a thumbs-up Tuesday to a bill allowing smaller homes on smaller lots in Texas' biggest cities, part of a broad push by state lawmakers to put a dent in the state's high home prices. But the House made significant tweaks that would limit how many new homes could be built under the bill, setting up a potential showdown with the Texas Senate over one of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's biggest priorities. Senate Bill 15 would reduce how much land cities say single-family homes in new subdivisions must sit on. The idea is to let homebuilders construct homes on smaller amounts of land, thus reducing the overall price of the home. 'This bill allows the option of building homes at different types and price points to meet the demand and needs of buyers,' said state Rep. Gary Gates, a Richmond Republican who carried the bill in the House. 'Lowering the size and type of residential housing will increase the amount of housing that can be built and lowers housing costs.' Initially, SB 15 would forbid major cities from requiring homes in new subdivisions to sit on more than 1,400 square feet as first proposed in the bill. Gates amended that provision Tuesday to 3,000 square feet. The state's biggest cities tend to require single-family homes to sit on around 5,000 to 7,500 square feet of land, a Texas Tribune analysis found. The provision would only apply in new subdivisions with at least five acres of land, and wouldn't touch existing neighborhoods. The bill would only apply to cities with at least 150,000 residents in counties with a population of 300,000 or more — 19 of the state's largest cities, per a Tribune analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. It also wouldn't apply in cases in which homeowners association and restrictive covenants prevent smaller lot sizes. Tuesday's 87-48 vote came after a dramatic turn of events at the tail end of the legislation in which a Democrat tried to kill the bill on a technicality, but supporters managed to revive it in time to reach the full House before a key deadline. Some Democrats weren't convinced the bill would tame housing costs — though evidence broadly suggests that homes on smaller lots have lower values than those on bigger lots. Some of them expressed uneasiness about the state weighing in on what kinds of homes can be built and where, a power the state grants to cities. 'They (residents) didn't elect their state representatives to decide how their city would develop, not on that level, not with this kind of density,' said state Rep. Ramon Romero, D-Fort Worth, who previously moved to kill the bill on procedural grounds. Romero successfully tacked on an amendment that will require cities to adopt a separate zoning category to comply with the bill, essentially meaning the bill wouldn't automatically apply to existing single-family zoning categories. A majority of the chamber's Republicans and Democrats voted in favor of the bill Tuesday. It has to clear a second, final vote Wednesday in order to advance. From there, the Senate would have to sign off on changes the House made to the bill — or appoint a conference committee to hash out the differences between the two chambers. SB15 is part of a constellation of proposals in the Texas Legislature aimed at curbing the state's high housing costs, chiefly by clearing red tape and cutting local regulations in order to allow more homes to be built. Texas needs about 320,000 more homes than it has, according to an estimate by the housing group Up For Growth. That shortage, housing experts and advocates argue, played a key role in driving up home prices and rents as the state boomed. Lawmakers on Monday sent a bill to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk that would allow apartments and mixed-use developments along retail and commercial corridors. Both chambers have approved bills to make it harder for property owners to stop new homes from being built near them and encourage cities to allow the construction of smaller apartments. They've also initially approved a bill to relax local rules in college towns that say how many unrelated adults can live in a home. House lawmakers also gave preliminary approval to a bill intended to reduce hurdles to convert vacant office buildings into residences. Whether a separate bill to allow additional dwelling units in the backyards of single-family homes, which died in the House two years ago, will make it over the finish line before a key deadline in the House on Tuesday night remains to be seen. First round of TribFest speakers announced! Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd; U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio; Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker; U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-California; and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas are taking the stage Nov. 13–15 in Austin. Get your tickets today!
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25-05-2025
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Texas House Democrat kills bill to allow smaller homes on smaller lots
A proposal to allow smaller homes on smaller lots in Texas cities — part of a slew of bills intended to tame the state's high home prices and rents — died by a procedural move in the Texas House Sunday. Senate Bill 15 — a top priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who leads the Senate — would have reduced the amount of land cities require for single-family homes in new subdivisions. That would give homebuilders the flexibility to build smaller homes on less land, reducing the final cost of the home. Some city officials as well as neighborhood activists who oppose new housing balked at the idea, arguing the proposal would be an undue incursion on cities' ability to say what kinds of housing can be built and where. The bill included narrow language designed to prevent it from taking effect within a mile of a police training center in Dallas County. Rep. Ramon Romero Jr., D-Fort Worth, raised the proposal to kill the bill, stating that language was out-of-bounds. The proposal was upheld, preventing the House from further discussing the bill. Romero did not immediately return a phone call and text requesting comment. State Rep. Gary Gates, a Richmond Republican who carried the bill in the House, said he's looking for ways to resurrect the bill but doing so would be difficult given that the Legislature is running out of time. The legislative session ends June 2. The bill sought to reduce the ultimate cost of a home by reducing how much land homebuyers would ultimately be required to purchase. Major cities in Texas tend to require single-family homes to sit between 5,000 and 7,500 square feet of land, according to a Texas Tribune analysis. The bill would have barred cities from requiring homes in new subdivisions to sit on more than 1,400 square feet. That provision wouldn't have applied in existing neighborhoods, and new subdivisions would have to sit on at least five acres of land. Given higher home prices and high interest rates, reducing the amount of land is necessary to give would-be homebuyers a path to homeownership, Gates said. 'If you're in a house that you bought a number of years ago, life looks good to you,' Gates said of the bill's opponents. 'We don't live in that world anymore.' The proposal is part of a package of GOP bills aimed at reining in the state's high home prices and rents by allowing more homes to be built. Texas builds more homes than any other state but not enough to keep up with demand amid the state's population boom. The state needs 320,000 more homes than it has, according to an estimate by the housing advocacy group Up For Growth. As a result, home prices and rents have skyrocketed, housing advocates and experts say. Lawmakers this year have advanced proposals aimed at reducing red tape and local regulations to let more homes be built. Legislators have pushed bills to allow apartments and mixed-use developments along retail and commercial corridors and additional dwelling units in the backyards of single-family homes. They've also pushed legislation to make it harder for landowners to stop new homes from being built near them and to allow homebuilders to more quickly obtain city building permits. None of those bills has yet reached the governor's desk. House lawmakers are also expected to take up other housing affordability bills Sunday. Those bills aim to make it easier to convert vacant office buildings into residences and encourage the construction of smaller apartments. They also would bar cities from outlawing manufactured homes and relaxing rules in college towns that restrict how many unrelated adults can live in a home. On Sunday, the Senate is expected to vote on House Bill 24, a priority for House Speaker Dustin Burrows. It aims to make it more difficult for property owners to block new housing. First round of TribFest speakers announced! Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd; U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio; Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker; U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-California; and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas are taking the stage Nov. 13–15 in Austin. Get your tickets today!
