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Is Zoning Government's 'Most Significant Regulatory Power'?
Interview with NZA founder and director Sara Bronin discussing how demystifying zoning–and developing tools like the National Zoning Atlas—will help people harness zoning for positive change.
How zoning shapes our world with Sara Bronin
Interview featured on Connecticut Public Radio program with NZA founder and director Sara Bronin about how zoning touches every aspect of our lives, including our physical and emotional health.
See how your state uses zoning codes to control land use
Checks in on NZA project updates two years in and celebrates launch of Arizona Zoning Atlas.
Technology Is Helping the Real Estate Industry Navigate Complex Zoning
Highlights the National Zoning Atlas as new tool to help people navigate zoning’s relationship with real estate.
Densely speaking - The National Zoning Atlas (sara bronin and scott Markley)
NZA founder and director Sara Bronin and geospatial project coordinator Scott Markley take listeners behind the scenes of the National Zoning Atlas on the Densely Speaking podcast's season kickoff.
How the National Zoning Atlas Visualizes and Demystifies the Power of Zoning
Sara Bronin’s sweeping vision gives planners a tool to push for reform.
National Zoning Atlas Founder Sara Bronin is Empowering Communities to Transform Land Use
Interview with NZA founder and director Sara Bronin discussing how the NZA facilitates opportunity for engagement among planners and community members and how it can help people advocate for zoning reform nationwide.
President Biden’s Proposals to Spur Affordable Housing Development
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.
Housing Technology Series: Planning for New Supply
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.
Mapping the future
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.
The mapping tool that’s trying to make zoning laws accessible to all
NZA founder and director introduces the National Zoning Atlas on NPR’s Marketplace.
A Bigger Picture
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.
Fresh Ideas To Increase Housing Supply
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.
Can a National Zoning Atlas Chart a Way Out of the US Housing Crisis?
Discusses the Atlas’s successes in informing and promoting pro-housing zoning reforms.
Project Aims to Decode Nation’s Zoning
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.
RESEARCHERS LAUNCH UNPRECEDENTED SURVEY OF LOCAL REGULATIONS WITH ‘ZONING ATLAS’
Profiles the release of the National Zoning Atlas integrated zoning atlas map launch.
Younger Generations Hold the Keys to More Affordable Housing
Points new policymakers to using the National Zoning Atlas to ensure future zoning reforms accommodate abundant options for affordable housing.
House Party with Ivory Innovations: Sara Bronin, National Zoning Atlas
Ivory Innovations podcast interview with NZA founder and director, Sara Bronin, discussing the first-ever effort to compile the nation’s 30,000 zoning codes in a single database and how ordinary people can get involved with the project.
CAN DIGITALIZATION IMPROVE HOW WE PLAN, REVIEW, AND REGULATE HOUSING?
Overview of NZA founder and director Sara Bronin’s contribution to JCHS’s 2022 symposium on housing and digitalization.
The Zoning Data Revolution is Here
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.