Zoning

Affordability Unlocked is a program that lets developers ignore certain building restrictions. In exchange, they must rent or sell half of the homes they build to people earning low incomes.

Austinites voted last year to reinstate a ban on public camping. In other words, voters made living on the streets a crime. Experts say solving homelessness means building or finding thousands of homes for those who don’t have them. And that housing has to go somewhere.

The hope is to allow developers to build more housing, which experts say could ease the rise in housing prices. But some elected officials worried the changes they made did not go far enough to help.

Austin City Council members on Thursday will consider this question in an attempt to allow more housing to be built.

Racial covenants made it illegal for Black people to live in white neighborhoods. Now they're illegal, but you might still have one on your home's deed. And they're hard to remove.

Amending a restrictive covenant often requires hiring a lawyer and getting buy-in from a majority of neighbors. HB 1202, which passed out of the House and is being considered by the Senate, could make deleting discriminatory language easier.

The City of Austin on Thursday appealed a Travis County judge’s order voiding votes taken in an ongoing process to adopt a new land development code.Last…

Lawyers representing a group of Austin homeowners will argue in court this week that landowners have the right to formally protest the rezoning of their…

The Austin City Council released the second draft of its land development code Friday. It's the latest step in the city's more than half-decade-long…

The University of Texas is rising – or rather, buildings on West Campus are now allowed to go higher.The Austin City Council voted Thursday to increase…