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In 2025 it enacted SB15, which provided for lot size flexibility in new residential subdivisions by overriding some minimum local lot-size requirements.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Housing reforms that increase supply, such as allowing smaller lots in new subdivisions, permitting duplexes, townhomes, and backyard cottages on existing lots, and changing zoning laws to allow housing nearer to jobs, are land-use issues.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

In 2025, Texas passed bills legalizing housing on commercially zoned land and subdivisions of starter homes, which were rendered difficult or illegal to build by municipal zoning laws, large lot requirements, or other design requirements.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

Streets with old cottages give way to newer subdivisions on the south end, where many of the “No Data Center” lawn signs are found.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 2026

Discrimination in housing remained the standard, but postwar economic mobility had given families like hers and Dorothy Vaughans the means to move out of once-vibrant developments like Newsome Park and into comfortable, leafy, all-black subdivisions.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly