Checks in on NZA project updates two years in and celebrates launch of Arizona Zoning Atlas.

Highlights the National Zoning Atlas as new tool to help people navigate zoning’s relationship with real estate.

Sara Bronin’s sweeping vision gives planners a tool to push for reform.

Summary of the 2024 Economic Report of the President’s proposals for improving housing affordability, highlighting HUD’s grant $4 million grant to the NZA to close data gaps in zoning.

Coverage of HUD and Terner Labs’ 2024 symposium, Housing Technology Series: Planning for New Supply, where NZA founder and director Sara Bronin discussed how the National Zoning Atlas not only informs legislative changes but also standardizes understanding among researchers and policymakers.

Showcases how the NZA has informed state and local zoning policy reforms to date, and how the tool can be leveraged to influence positive reforms into the future.

Interview with NZA founder and director Sara Bronin and zoning code project coordinator Aline Fader about how the NZA sheds light on a regional view of land use from Long Island to Connecticut.

Overview of competition winners selected by the Federation of American Scientists, Learning Collider, and the National Zoning Atlas for policy ideas to increase housing supply.

Discusses the Atlas’s successes in informing and promoting pro-housing zoning reforms.

NZA outreach coordinator Diana Drogaris discusses how the National Zoning Atlas facilitates market-to-market analysis of housing rules — a benefit for builders and suppliers of manufactured housing.

Profiles the release of the National Zoning Atlas integrated zoning atlas map launch.

Points new policymakers to using the National Zoning Atlas to ensure future zoning reforms accommodate abundant options for affordable housing.

Overview of NZA founder and director Sara Bronin’s contribution to JCHS’s 2022 symposium on housing and digitalization.

Showcases the National Zoning Atlas, along with the Zoning Restrictiveness Index, as two tools succeeding in making zoning data more comprehensive, standardized and accessible to the public.

A 50-year survey of HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research’s role in seeking to understand the extent and effects of regulatory barriers on housing— with mention of funding the National Zoning Atlas to help people understand zoning codes.

NZA leaders in Montana, Tennessee, & California share how zoning atlases are the analytical tool lawmakers are missing when it comes to counteracting harmful zoning practices.

Article demonstrating how the National Zoning Atlas helps make local housing laws more available and digestible in order to revolutionize housing policy analysis and pave the way for zoning law reform.

Status update on the ongoing efforts to create a comprehensive National Zoning Atlas, featuring check-ins with the Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire atlases.

Q&A with NZA director Sara Bronin discussing the National Zoning Atlas’s potential to inform evidence-based policymaking.

Covers updates from state atlas and research initiatives from within the National Zoning Atlas research collaborative.