Housing Policy
From housing need to housing built.
Housing needs analyses, production strategies, and middle-housing policy calibrated to local markets and state statutory requirements — connecting housing goals to the specific regulatory, financial, and partnership tools that produce units.
Housing policy calibrated to market reality — so it produces homes, not just targets.
Effective housing policy takes fluency in two things at once: the statutory framework that defines what a jurisdiction must plan for, and the development economics that determine what actually gets built. We ground needs analyses and production strategies in legally defensible methodology and calibrate them to what local builders will use — so the result is measured in homes produced, not plans adopted. Housing goals become housing on the ground.
Housing Needs + Capacity Analysis
Legally defensible housing needs analyses and buildable lands inventories — calibrated to state methodology requirements and grounded in local market conditions and demographic data.
Housing Production Strategies
Action plans that move from housing goals to specific regulatory, financial, and partnership strategies — vetted against local market conditions and organized by income segment and housing type.
Middle Housing + ADUs
Middle-housing code audits, amendments, and implementation support — grounded in pro forma feasibility testing and state statutory requirements to produce regulations that builders will actually use.
Expert spotlight
Jamin Kimmell, Partner, Housing Policy
Jamin is a land use planner and development code specialist who focuses on crafting context-sensitive, market-feasible regulations that help create more affordable, equitable and sustainable communities. Jamin has led complete zoning code rewrites, housing-focused code audits and updates, complex statutory compliance updates, housing policy plans, corridor plans, urban design studies and development permitting for major projects. He has contributed to more than 20 citywide housing studies and action plans and over 40 zoning code audits and updates, including drafting code amendments for communities in Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming and Utah. He is the author of two statewide guidebooks on best practices for residential zoning and design standards for walkable communities.
Jamin Kimmell, Partner
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