Austin’s Slowest City Department Tries to Pick Up the Pace

This idea – that regulation and slow permit reviews make housing more expensive – is something you’d expect to hear from developers. However, Felicity Maxwell, executive director of Texans for Housing, told us she believes that 60% to 70% of housing advocates in Austin today share the belief. “Most of the folks who are younger and involved with groups like the Austin Housing Coalition are both pro-affordable housing and pro-deregulation – the YIMBY policies,” she said.