All You Need Is Love (and Deregulation)
Building our way to affordable cities does not require a government-led "post-neoliberal" approach to housing development.
Building our way to affordable cities does not require a government-led "post-neoliberal" approach to housing development.
Rent control would only make the housing crisis worse. Zoning reform would make things better.
Plus: Why Blackstone is good, actually, and a Georgia judge rules for tiny homes.
San Francisco’s new ordinance would impose all-electric building standards for new construction projects or buildings undergoing “major renovations.”
The Pepin family is suing the City of Blaine after the City Council used dubious reasoning to deny a permit for additional housing on their property.
Congress considers a consensus housing supply bill while the White House cracks down on the homeless.
Plus: Single-stair reform in Nashville, an inclusionary zoning lawsuit in Seattle, and a zoning-created full-service Popeyes in Illinois.
From January 2024 to January 2025, average rent in Sarasota fell from $3,290 to $1,886 per month.
A new lawsuit alleges that the city's Mandatory Housing Affordability program unconstitutionally penalizes property owners just for trying to build housing.
The housing crisis is bad for national Democrats. At the state level, it's a political winner.
Despite the setback, Middletown Township is taking the case to the state supreme court.
The symposium is seeking submissions.
Plus: The Supreme Court declines to hear major eviction moratorium case, Maine passes zoning reform, and why tourist traps are good, actually.
The new legislation exempts most new urban housing construction from the previously often stifling CEQA law. YIMBY ("yes in my backyard") advocates are cheering.
Plus: Real rent decreases in New York City, the return of missing middle housing in Virginia, and how everyone's a socialist on housing in New York.
Despite this setback, a coalition of municipalities is challenging the state’s housing program in federal court.
YIMBY policies in Texas have led to lower rents and increasing supply. The same cannot be said for California.
America's housing shortage is worst in Western states. That's also where the federal government owns the most land.
Allegedly sane, centrist opponents of New York City's socialist mayoral candidate are all too happy to regulate rental housing into the ground.
Plus: housing reform is killed in Connecticut, bonus ADUs are gutted in San Diego, and two decades of Supreme Court-enabled eminent domain abuse.
It is part of the Yale Journal on Regulation Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London.
The study by leading housing economists Edward Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko finds there are 15 milion fewer housing units in the US than there would be if construction in 2000-2020 had continued at the same pace as in 1980-2000.
Plus: A new constitutional challenge to inclusionary zoning fees, a vetoed ban on rent-recommendation software, and a ill-conceived rent freeze in New York City.
Out-of-control housing costs helped Trump win the 2024 election. Is he about to make the problem worse?
Plus: The near death of starter-home reform in Texas, Colorado's pending ban on rent-recommendation software, and a very Catholic story of eminent domain abuse.
The Court has been punting for months on whether it will take up a legal challenge brought by Los Angeles landlords alleging their city's COVID-era eviction ban was a physical taking.
All to shovel more money at wasteful and ineffective programs.
During one week in February, arrests of homeless people accounted for 66 percent of all arrests in Miami Beach.
Plus: The White House proposes stiff funding cuts at HUD, Baltimore proposes "missing middle" reforms, and Gov. Gavin Newsom urges local governments to clear encampments.
Bills designed to allow more starter homes and apartments near transit face an uncertain future in the state Senate's housing committee.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's plan to create a federal housing developer is a terrible idea.
The owners, who were planning an affordable housing project on the site, first learned about the seizure from the mayor's social media post.
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.
Lawmakers in Arizona and California are attempting to overcome local resistance to meaningful starter home reforms.
From insurance to affordable housing mandates, California's regulatory noose tightens over wildfire rebuilding efforts.
When regulations limit what kind of housing can be built, the result is endless arguments about what people really want.
Johnston, Rhode Island, Mayor Joseph Polisena promised to "use all the power of government" to stop the privately financed 252-unit project.
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.
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.