With the help of New York’s environmental review law, local NIMBYs halted an approved housing project, adding to delays and costs in a city facing a housing shortage.
Plus: Democrats' housing-lite postelection recriminations and yet another ballot box defeat for pro–rent control forces in California.
Golden State voters decisively rejected progressive approaches to crime and housing.
A related initiative preventing the state's most prolific rent control–supporting nonprofit from funding future initiatives is headed for a narrow victory.
Proposition 33 would repeal all of California's state-level limits on rent control. It's passage could prove to be a disaster for housing supply in the Golden State.
Advocates unconvincingly argue that repealing California's limits on rent control will open up more housing for people with disabilities.
Despite homelessness being on the rise, local governments keep cracking down on efforts to shelter those without permanent housing.
Instead of focusing on the ways a rollback of zoning laws could lower housing costs for everyone, Vance wants to zealously enforce zoning codes to keep Haitians out of town.
A free market for housing is one that benefits both renters and landlords.
Federal housing officials allege a New Hampshire landlord violated the Fair Housing Act for refusing to show a unit to two women with emotional support dogs.
Plus: Massachusetts NIMBYs get their day in court, Pittsburgh one-step forward, two-steps back approach to zoning reform, and a surprisingly housing-heavy VP debate.
Harris rightly calls out regulations for causing the housing shortage, but she also supports rent control policies that will make it worse.
Housing is unaffordable because regulations have prevented its commodification.
Plus: the transformation of California's builder's remedy, the zoning reform implications of the Eric Adams indictment, and why the military killed starter home reform in Arizona.
The ruling highlights need for state-level zoning reform and stronger judicial protection of constitutional property rights.
The New York City Council takes up the mayor's City of Yes for Housing Opportunity reform package the same day Adams is indicted on federal corruption charges.
Javier Milei’s repeal of restrictive rent control laws increased housing supply and stabilized prices.
Economist Jeremy Horpedahl breaks down the economic outlook for Millennials and Gen Z and assesses how the 2024 presidential candidates' policies stack up against reality.
Plus, a look at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Tina Smith's plan to resurrect public housing in America.
Increasing the supply of housing requires looser rules and fewer bureaucratic delays.
Plus: An alleged slumlord gets a "tenant empowerment" grant, Seattle's affordable housing mandates lead to less housing, D.C.'s affordable housing crisis.
New data shows that "housing supply skeptics" can be persuaded by evidence showing that allowing more construction reduces prices. But not clear this is a good road map for addressing the problem of public ignorance in the real world.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been dogged by accusations that it operates dangerous, dilapidated housing. Now, it'll distribute taxpayer dollars to tenant groups fighting for better living conditions.
Plus: The Montana Supreme Court rescues zoning reform, and a new challenge to inclusionary zoning.
The Dutch government's radical expansion of rent control is displacing tenants and aggravating a preexisting housing shortage.
Housing costs, job availability, energy prices, and technological advancement all hinge on a web of red tape that is leaving Americans poorer and less free.
Both propose awful economic policies that appeal to public ignorance.
Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, a leading expert on housing policy, offers some ideas on how Congress can use conditional spending to break down barriers to housing construction.
There would seem to be little added fairness, and little added incentive for illegal immigration, in letting more people draw from a well that's already run dry.
Kamala Harris' promise to end the housing shortage and adopt rent control shows that YIMBY ideas are just one of several competing housing policy agendas within the Democratic Party.
Americans need a politician dedicated to unwinding decades of government interventions that have driven up the cost of middle-class living.
Desperate to control soaring rents, the city council bans rental data tools while ignoring its own role in the housing crisis.
The Minnesota governor is being hailed as a YIMBY zoning reformer despite doing nothing of consequence on the issue.
Would a YIMBY building boom rejuvenate urban family life or produce sterile, megacity hellscapes?
Plus: Kamala Harris doubles down on rent control, Gavin Newsom issues a new executive order on housing, and the natural tendency to keep adding more regulation.
It's good to hear a candidate actually talk about our spending problem. But his campaign promises would exacerbate it.
The company needs a lot of government permission slips to build its planned new city in the Bay Area. It's now changing the order in which it asks for them.
Plus: Gainesville shrinks minimum lot sizes, a Colorado church can keep providing shelter to the homeless, and Berkeley considers allowing small apartments everywhere.
Many states have enacted laws curbing exclusionary zoning and other regulations that block new housing construction.
Whoever is president has very weak incentives to get zoning reform right.
It combines nationwide rent control with modest supply-side measures potentially freeing up "underutilized" federal property for housing construction.
Republicans and Democrats have both managed to get worse on housing policy in the past week.
Although former President Donald Trump's deregulatory agenda would make some positive changes, it's simply not enough.
How do the two major party candidates stack up on housing policy?
Those three presidential candidates are making promises that would have bewildered and horrified the Founding Fathers.
Homeless advocates say the court's decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson gives local governments a blank check to "to arrest or fine those with no choice but to sleep outdoors."
The media, state attorneys general, and the Biden administration are blaming rent-recommendation software for rising rents. Normal stories of supply and demand are the more reasonable explanation.
