Will the 'Abundance' Agenda Make California Great Again?
Democrats would have a stronger rebuke to Trumpism if civic service in blue states were the national model rather than a laughingstock.
Democrats would have a stronger rebuke to Trumpism if civic service in blue states were the national model rather than a laughingstock.
Bills designed to allow more starter homes and apartments near transit face an uncertain future in the state Senate's housing committee.
Shahzaad Ausman has had to sue the county to confirm that he can continue to live in his own home.
The Atlantic's Derek Thompson urges Democrats to embrace more libertarian, pro-growth policies in his new book.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's plan to create a federal housing developer is a terrible idea.
Challenging the common knowledge of urban planning
The panelists included M. Nolan Gray, Jennifer Hernandez, and myself.
Plus: the federal government tries to stiff landlords over eviction moratorium one last time, the Supreme Court declines to take up eminent domain case, and starter home bills advance in Arizona and Texas.
A Rhode Island town seeks to use eminent domain to block construction of a large-scale affordable housing project.
Set in South Korea, Apartment Women reflects real concerns about the country's lagging birth rate.
The owners, who were planning an affordable housing project on the site, first learned about the seizure from the mayor's social media post.
"Supply-side progressives" like Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are ultimately technocrats, not libertarians. But they recognize that more is better than less and that a good society is not zero-sum.
One proposal would create a streamlined process for selling off federal land to state and local governments, but only if they allow housing to be built on it.
Plus: Texas and Minnesota consider an aggressive suite of housing supply bills, while San Diego tries to ratchet up regulations on ADUs.
On Monday, a Montana judge roundly rejected homeowners' legal challenge to new laws allowing duplexes and accessory dwelling units in single-family areas.
Economist Bryan Caplan and I will speak at event sponsored by the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
Lawmakers in Arizona and California are attempting to overcome local resistance to meaningful starter home reforms.
"The effects were immediately seen by everyone and they were all beneficial," says the former vice president of Argentina's central bank.
From insurance to affordable housing mandates, California's regulatory noose tightens over wildfire rebuilding efforts.
The right to a reasonable accommodation has produced some absurd results.
When regulations limit what kind of housing can be built, the result is endless arguments about what people really want.
"The effects were immediately seen by everyone and they were all beneficial," says the former vice president of Argentina's central bank.
Some of California's architectural wonders were consumed by the flames.
Johnston, Rhode Island, Mayor Joseph Polisena promised to "use all the power of government" to stop the privately financed 252-unit project.
The right to a reasonable accommodation has produced some absurd results.
Inflation and rent prices are down, and the country has a budget surplus.
Allowing duplexes and triplexes in single-family neighborhoods doesn't increase housing supply much. But it does give people more choices.
Anyone who thinks state regulatory agencies will help them doesn't understand how these agencies actually operate.
A thicket of red tape has made the island's rebuilding efforts painfully slow.
Lawmakers across the country introduce bills to strengthen private property rights, crackdown on out-of-control regulators, and get the government out of micromanaging stairways.
Zoning laws, occupancy limits, and short-term rental restrictions are keeping housing off the market and driving up costs.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom must allow prices to rise if he wants homes to be rebuilt as quickly as possible.
Needless regulation on fire insurance, "speculators," and duplexes means fewer dollars are going to rebuild Los Angeles.
The California governor is using state of emergency powers to make unsolicited offers to buy people's property in fire-affected areas "for an amount less than the fair market value."
It shouldn't take a disaster for the state to consider fixing the rules that make it so expensive to building housing there.
The Golden State has many bad policies in desperate need of reform. It's not obvious they had more than a marginal effect on the still-burning fires in Los Angeles.
Decades-old, voter-approved restrictions on insurers raising premiums have created a regulatory disaster to match the natural one.
The destruction of numerous homes exacerbated the city's already severe housing crisis. Curbing exclusionary zoning is crucial to addressing the problem.
Milton Friedman once observed that you can't have open immigration and a welfare state. He was mostly right.
Cities become affordable when lots of new housing is built, not when a larger percentage of a small amount of new housing is made "affordable" by regulation.
The latest federal homelessness survey finds an 18 percent annual rise in the number of people living without permanent shelter.
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