The conversion of single-family houses into group homes in residential neighborhoods throughout the suburbs is becoming a popular alternative to traditional institutional living arrangements for both ...

Residents of Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge are growing increasingly nervous about the prospect of a population explosion hitting their communities due to illegal home expansions that create multi-unit ...

What does home construction have to do with overcrowded classrooms in schools? A lot, if you ask Councilmember Vincent Gentile. “School overcrowding can be a direct effect of illegal home conversion,” ...

San Francisco wants to set up a tax increment financing district for office-to-home conversions in Downtown. Mayor Daniel Lurie and Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman launched a bill to ...

New Home Star’s Chris Laskowski breaks down what’s stalling new home conversions in today’s market—and what to do about it. From weak webpages to ignored AI search, he lays out a builder’s to-do list ...

The City of Los Angeles may expand a policy that helped create 12,000 homes out of old office buildings in Downtown. The city aims to expand a 1999 adaptive reuse ordinance credited with an explosive ...

"We contacted our realtor and said ‘this is the house we want.’ She thought we were crazy." Welcome to Different Strokes, a look at unique home design choices that beg for further explanation. Angus ...

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