>In austin we are starting to have an affordability crisis, whereas cities like houston are doing much better. >The taxation is the same, what is different is

>In austin we are starting to have an affordability crisis, whereas cities like houston are doing much better. >The taxation is the same, what is different is the restrictive zoning in austin. In austin permitting can take 6-9 months and single family zoning restricts what can be built. The city council tried to revise zoning and failed due to NIMBYs, but they are trying again this year. Austin's problems are straight out of a California textbook on what not to do.