Houston Matters discusses how land use and zoning practices might play into the La Porte pipeline fire and get reaction to Mayor John Whitmire’s State of the City address as we discuss the ...

Housing requires land, and local governments control what can be built via land-use and zoning regulations. The limitations imposed by these ordinances — which control the location, height and ...

Most land use, zoning, and building regulations are made at the state and local level. It is true, that the federal government does in fact influence housing policy but mainly through subsidies ...