2026 Legislative Priorities

>> Allow single-family and small multi-family homes on modestly sized lots where water and sewer are available

>> Create more affordable homeownership opportunities  

>> Conserve land and reduce sprawl

>> Cap excessive requirements that derail housing projects or add thousands of dollars in cost

>> Modeled on recent laws passed by New Hampshire and Connecticut

>> Offer a new gap-financing tool for adaptively reusing vacant offices, former schools, and other underused structures as housing

>> Create jobs and revitalize neighborhoods

>> Addresses ambiguities and technical corrections from prior-year legislation

>> Update laws based on stakeholder feedback about what is and is not working to get homes built