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The Tax Credit That Builds Most of America's New Affordable Rentals The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, born in Reagan's 1986 tax law, quietly finances most new affordable apartments. Here is how it works, who profits and why it is so slow. Utah's Celebrated Drop in Chronic Homelessness and the Questions It Raised In 2015 Utah said it had nearly ended chronic homelessness, and the country cheered. What the program really did, how the counting changed and what critics found later. What Minneapolis Learned After Ending Single-Family-Only Zoning Minneapolis became the first big US city to end single-family-only zoning in 2018. Few triplexes followed, but the city built a lot of housing and rents held steadier than nearby. Why Progressive Cities Became the Hardest Places in America to Build A San Francisco vote against 495 apartments on a parking lot shows how progressive cities made building slow and costly, and why the left has to own and fix its permitting problem.