Evidence from Montana and Texas shows rural GOP lawmakers leading upzoning to spare farms and rangeland from sprawl while boosting housing supply. A Mercatus survey finds about two‑thirds of Republican trifecta states passed pro‑housing bills in 2025, and North Carolina’s unanimous legislature scrapped parking mandates. This is an unexpected coalition with business groups and environmentalists that reframes YIMBY as cross‑partisan—and often red‑state‑led.
— It signals a durable policy lane that could depolarize housing, flip culture‑war priors, and reshape urban growth nationwide.
Santi Ruiz
2025.10.16
78% relevant
The ROAD to Housing Act, co‑sponsored by Republican Tim Scott and Democrat Elizabeth Warren and reported out of committee 24–0 before passing the Senate, reflects the emerging cross‑partisan pro‑supply trend seen in red‑state legislatures. It extends that pattern to the federal level with incentives, technical assistance, and regulatory streamlining to boost housing supply.
2025.08.26
92% relevant
The newsletter reports Montana’s legalization of duplexes/tiny homes, Texas’s minimum-lot-size cuts and apartments in commercial zones, and a survey showing about two‑thirds of GOP trifecta states passed pro‑housing measures—mirroring the documented red‑state YIMBY coalition between business, rural, and environmental interests to curb sprawl.
M. Nolan Gray
2025.08.25
100% relevant
Montana’s 2023–2025 packages (duplexes, ADUs, single‑stair code, 'free use of property') and Texas’s dozen‑bill reform slate; Kahn & Furth’s Mercatus survey of GOP trifectas.