It explains how to better use both existing state constitutional provisions, and constitutional amendments. Based on a longer academic article, coauthored with Joshua Braver.
A district court ruled that Johnston, Rhode Island, can't use its own bespoke eminent domain process to block an affordable housing development.
It is the first comprehensive analysis of how to use state constitutional law to combat exclusionary zoning. Coauthored with Josh Braver.
Plus: A new lawsuit challenges New York's rent freeze, a study affirms new supply helps everyone, and the battle between data centers and clouded leopards.
This year’s rent freeze is just the latest regulation pushing New York City’s rent-stabilized housing stock toward financial and physical collapse.
From rent control and Medicare for All to tariffs, politicians left and right are embracing policy ideas that have been repeatedly shown to not work.
Plus: San Francisco slashes affordable housing mandates, wide support for streamlining environmental review, and Mamdani's rent ripoff report.
New York’s rent freeze will turn more rent-stabilized units into unlivable “zombie apartments.”
Developers rush to use California's new apartments-near-transit law, North Carolina eliminates parking requirements, and the federal housing bill finally becomes law.
Plus: Trump's escalating war with Iran, the bipartisan congressional housing bill, and Graham Platner's campaign collapse
Plus: L.A. criminally charges contractors offering to build an ADU in the Palisades, South Carolina streamlines squatter removal, and a Florida city uses eminent domain to thwart state housing law.
First-place wins include work on America's gerontocracy, an interview with anti–death penalty activist Helen Prejean, and some Star Wars comedy.
Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani both do their bit to sabotage healthy housing policy.
Plus: the DSA's policy agenda, Trump's chaotic Iran strategy, and America's 250th birthday
The NYC Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze rent for approximately 1 million apartments on Thursday night.
I took part along with prominent abundance liberalism advocate Jeremiah Johnson.
Plus: Mamdani's rent freeze, Darializa's "no jail for murderers" stance, inflation ticks up, and more...
The Court ruled that local goverments may pay compensation far below fair market value for property seized in tax foreclosures.
Plus: Iran deal, J.D. Vance on morality, L.A. hemorrhages population, and more...
The D.C. mayoral race offers two leading candidates who are saying a lot of the right things about housing supply.
His plan to expropriate rental housing violates the Takings Clause, and would exacerbate the City's housing crisis rather than alleviate it.
New York lawmakers exempt some housing from the state's environmental review law while piling taxes on second homes.
Conservatives want local control over housing policy, but they're happy to let the state restrict when local governments can raise taxes.
The rare reported fall in the nation's homeless population is mostly the result of the ebbing migrant surge of 2023 and 2024.
If the government does not reduce the cost of public services, then a special tax break for one group merely forces everyone else to pick up the slack.
Couched with good intentions, new laws aimed at housing and artificial intelligence development will add more layers of red tape to Maryland’s growing bureaucracy.
The House passes a housing bill that protects build-to-rent development while still cracking down on large investors.
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss Rep. Thomas Massie's defeat, Jeff Bezos' comments on taxes, and squatters in California.
Yglesias supports an alliance and has key points of agreement with libertarians, but also criticisms of libertarianism. I welcome former and respond to the latter.
California's failure to eject squatters from the properties they've seized undermines the state's new housing laws.
California has failed to protect private property from squatters. Desperate owners are turning to katana-wielding enforcers to reclaim their homes.
Nominees include stories on America's gerontocracy, the war on chocolate, how Texas beat California on housing, and more.
Plus: the damage done by inclusionary zoning, total YIMBY victory at California gubernatorial forum, and Trump's reversion of build-to-rent
Politicians on the left and right are increasingly blaming large investors for raising home prices. Here's why they're wrong.
The commission has tormented property owners and localities ever since it was created in 1976. Finally, legislative and legal efforts are undoing some of its abuses.
Historic preservation laws often violate constitutional property rights, and block construction of new housing.
An initiative that would streamline California's development-killing environmental review law appears to be headed to the ballot.
Mere proposals can change the risk calculus for business and investors. Politicians, and the public, should be wary.
The owners of the house that Marilyn Monroe died in claim in a lawsuit that the city took their property when it landmarked it.
This emerging school of thought has its flaws. But it's a potentially valuable ally for libertarians and other free market advocates.
What Idaho's slew of zoning reforms says about YIMBY politics and policymaking in the states.
A popular revolt against state-led zoning reform in Colorado, Massachusetts' contradictory approach to housing supply, and how municipalities lobby to kill housing.
A recent string of zoning controversies show how land use regulations have become the enemy of all good things.
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