Colorado Bans HOAs From Banning Home Businesses
Homeowners associations are the most, and the least, libertarian form of governance.
Homeowners associations are the most, and the least, libertarian form of governance.
The needless complexity of affordable housing programs are hurting people they're supposed to help.
The Eighth Amendment provides little, if any, protection for the homeless. But courts can help them by striking down exclusionary zoning, which is the major cause of housing shortages that lead to homelessness.
Which is bad news for anyone hoping to rent a place to live.
Economist Bryan Caplan, former National Association of Home Builders Director Jerry Howard, and I will speak at event sponsored by the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
A Cato Institute policy brief found that while licensed occupations see a nice bump in pay, licensing requirements lower wages for other similar occupations.
Plus: Zoning reform in Minnesota stalls, a New York housing "deal" does little for housing supply, and Colorado ends occupancy limits.
The push to regulate social media content infringes on rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.
Despite their informal nature, those norms have historically constrained U.S. fiscal policy. But they're eroding.
Plus: Problems for Saudi Arabia's The Line, Hawaii considers a short-term rental crackdown, and when affordable housing mandates get you less affordable housing.
As remote work becomes the new normal, Mississippi's insistence on an archaic 50-mile radius for real estate supervision faces scrutiny.
Moratoria caused landlords to be less willing to rent to black tenants.
Instead of a hefty real estate tax hike, voters want more logical, long-term solutions to a genuine crisis.
Urban policy analyst Addison Del Mastro advances it in the Catholic journal America.
It's in cities that greater absolute numbers of religious people can compensate for declining per capita rates of religious observance.
New Zealand alleviated a severe housing shortage by liberalizing regulations that had previously blocked most new construction.
The state’s policies and practices seemed designed to strangle the legal cannabis supply.
In interview with Joe Selvaggi of the Pioneer Institute, I explain the harm caused by exclusionary zoning, and why it violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Plus: The White House's rent controls, San Francisco's bad-to-worse turn on housing, and the latest unintended consequence of eviction moratoriums
Plus: A listener asks if Trump or Biden have done anything to secure the blessings of liberty.
Oregon lawmakers recently voted to recriminalize drugs after voters approved landmark reforms in 2020.
Too many property owners are having trouble asserting their rights, but not everything is "squatter's rights."
Giving the state control over insurance rates turned pricing into a Byzantine regulatory process.
Some Democrats want to mimic Europe's policies on phone chargers and more.
Where these laws allow squatters to occupy houses without the owner's consent, they qualify as takings of private property that require payment of compensation under the Fifth Amendment.
Plus: New York refreshes rent control, AOC and Bernie Sanders call for more, greener public housing, and California's "builder's remedy" wins big in court.
Plus: A listener asks about the absurdity of Social Security entitlements.
If you fail to see a problem with Apple's actions, you may not be an overzealous government lawyer.
In Fragile Neighborhoods, author Seth Kaplan applies his Fixing Fragile States observations domestically.
All too often, admission is only open to students whose families can afford a home inside the districts’ boundaries or pay transfer student tuition.
The market offers many alternatives to bad desserts. We don’t need the FDA to step in.
Plus: Squatters, Julian Assange, teen babysitters, Hong Kong migration, and more...
Economic nationalists are claiming the deal endangers "national security" to convince Americans that a good deal for investors, employees, and the U.S. economy will somehow make America less secure. That's nonsense.
Plus: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is fooled by TikTok housing falsehoods, Austin building boom cuts prices, and Sacramento does the socialist version of "homeless homesteading."
The New York Times and the Atlantic report on how the movement to curb exclusionary zoning and build more housing has managed to cut across ideological lines.
Some Democrats want to mimic Europe's policies on phone chargers and more.
They are to be commended. But other property owners should also be freed of exclusionary zoning.
The president who vowed to cut government spending rescinds the 48 percent pay raise he gave himself.
The Colorado governor talks about live housing reforms in the state legislature, the federal role in housing policy, and whether we should abolish zoning completely.
The president wants to raise the rate from 21 percent to 28 percent, despite it being well-established that this is the most economically-destructive method to raise government funds.
Prominent political commentator and zoning reform advocate comments on my work on this topic (with Joshua Braver).
New immigration pathways are letting private citizens welcome refugees and other migrants—and getting the government out of the way.
Plus: Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs dithers over whether to veto bipartisan Starter Homes bill, Biden says "build, build, build," and Massachusetts sues anti-apartment suburb.
Teaneck already had tensions over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A real estate sale caused it to snap.
New immigration pathways are letting private citizens welcome refugees and other migrants—and getting the government out of the way.
Kristy Kay Money and Rolf Jacob Sraubhaar are now suing the city of San Marcos, Texas, saying they're being forced to keep a Klan-linked symbol on the front of their house is a physical taking.
Plus: Illegal immigrants at Whole Foods, AI predicting homelessness, Chinese espionage, and more...
The project might determine whether new generations will be able to take part in the American Dream.