Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter includes stories on: • How Texas cities are attempting to undermine state-level zoning reforms. • New York landlords and Zohran Mamdani make nice ahead of his likely election win. • New York's Board of Elections weighs whether to remove housing streamlining measures from the city's November ballot.

Can Texas Cities Mandate Pools and Saunas To Stop New Apartments?

In August of this year, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbot signed Senate Bill (S.B. 840) into law, which requires larger cities in larger counties to allow new mid-rise apartment buildings in commercially zoned areas.

The bill got a lot of praise from YIMBY housing advocates for being a good, clean reform that legalizes new housing constructi

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