In Austin, Texas, a battle is brewing over residential zoning and affordable housing.
As people flocked to the Texas metropolis over the last 10 years, decades-old zoning laws pit older homeowners against millennial movers. Though the city is in the process of rewriting its laws, that process is meeting with resistance from the older, largely boomer crowd of city politicians that have zoned most of the city to be single-family-only. Their continued resistance could threaten the affordability of Austin housing — and it's already turning the city into the south's San Francisco.
Image: Austin is so popular it's becoming unaffordable. Reuters
