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Family Homesteads With Tangled Titles Are Contributing to Rural America’s Housing Crisis

June 25, 2025/

Across the US, heirs’ property laws hamstring families that want to build housing or leverage their land for loans. One Alabama project shows how policy reform and savvy design can build a way forward.
The question isn’t whether design can respond to these challenges, but how it can lead by pushing antiquated regulatory and legal frameworks to evolve.
by Jennifer Pindyck, Christian Ayala Lopez and Rusty Smith / Auburn University


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