Great Moments in Unintended Consequences (Vol. 7)
Good intentions, bad results
A new paper finds that lower income property owners are seeing the biggest falls in property values while high-income renters will get the biggest discounts on rent.
Children forced to Zoom into school ended up with suboptimal immune systems—the opposite of herd immunity.
A study suggests that "right-to-counsel" in eviction cases actually leads to greater homelessness.
Lawmakers are proposing to create a "California Dream Fund" that would subsidize up to 45 percent of the costs of a new home.
For more than a decade, politicians have moved toward seizing short-term wins through any mechanism available to them.
Two new studies create counterfactual pandemic scenarios seeking to answer that question.
A new study of inclusionary zoning policies in the D.C. and Baltimore metro areas finds that the policy ends up raising rents.