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.
The city's Rent Guidelines Board approved a nominal 2.75 rent increase for one million rent-stabilized apartments. That's below the year's 3.3 percent inflation rate.
There is a growing movement to let churches and other religious organizations build housing on their property that would otherwise be banned by zoning regulations.
Plus: unpermitted ADUs in San Jose, Sen. J.D. Vance's mass deportation plan for housing affordability, and the California Coastal Commission's anti-housing record.
It is coauthored with Josh Braver.
Plus: Sen. John Fetterman introduces a new zoning reform bill, U.C. Berkeley finally beats the NIMBYs in court, and Austin's unwise "equity overlay."
Recent studies diverge on the extent to which public opinion backs policies that would deregulate housing construction. YIMBYs would do well to learn from both.
A guest post on economist Bryan Caplan's Bet On It substack.
Plus: An interview with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis about the state's blockbuster year for housing reform.
Moving is no longer a viable way to grow your wealth in the U.S., says the author of Build, Baby, Build.
Plus: The results of rent control are in, California's tiny home program gets minimal results, and yet another city eyes a crackdown on short-term rentals.
Plus: Austin shrinks its minimum lot sizes, Florida builds on past zoning reforms, and Arizona passes ADU and missing middle bills.
A listing of his four posts on different aspects of the book and the issues it raises.
Specificity, fertility, and political assimilation. Fourth in a series of guest-blogging posts.
Checking the credibility of Hsieh-Moretti the lazy way. Third in a series of guest-blogging posts.
The Institute for Justice has launched a project to reform land use regulation.
Plus: Colorado passes a string of zoning reforms, an upscale Los Angeles grocery store sues to stop new housing, and Democrats urge the White House to get moving on fair housing.
Privatization of federal and state land is a massive missed opportunity. Second in a series of guest-blogging posts.
These new regulations will drive up housing costs even further.
Why *Build, Baby, Build* should be a top libertarian priority. First in a series of guest-blogging posts.
The book makes the case for massively deregulating housing markets.
The George Mason University economist talks about his new housing comic book and how America could deregulate its way into an affordable urban utopia.
Restricting the price of housing kills incentives to supply places to live.
A new study shows deportation of undocumented migrants reduces housing construction by diminishing the supply of workers needed to do it.
Plus: California's landmark law ending single-family-only zoning is struck down, Austin, Texas, moves forward with minimum lot size reform, and the pro-natalist case for pedestrian infrastructure.
Kennedy’s plan for government-backed mortgage bonds will do to housing what federal student loans have done to college tuition.
The needless complexity of affordable housing programs are hurting people they're supposed to help.
Plus: Zoning reform in Minnesota stalls, a New York housing "deal" does little for housing supply, and Colorado ends occupancy limits.
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.
Moratoria caused landlords to be less willing to rent to black tenants.
Plus: The White House's rent controls, San Francisco's bad-to-worse turn on housing, and the latest unintended consequence of eviction moratoriums
Too many property owners are having trouble asserting their rights, but not everything is "squatter's rights."
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: 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 Colorado governor talks about live housing reforms in the state legislature, the federal role in housing policy, and whether we should abolish zoning completely.
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.
The project might determine whether new generations will be able to take part in the American Dream.
The president's laundry list of proposed tax credits would likely make the problem of high housing costs worse.
In California, which has a slew of renewable energy regulations, the cost of electricity increased three times faster than in the rest of the U.S.—and the state still doesn't even get reliable energy.
Plus: The man who would build an ADU, the zoning theory of child care, and tiny home red tape in Hawaii.
Bureaucratic ineptitude leads to waste—and more people on the streets.
Thomas agreed with the Court's decision to not take up two challenges to New York's rent stabilization law but said the constitutionality of rent control "is an important and pressing question."
Plus: Voters in Massachusetts reject state-mandated upzonings, Florida localities rebel against a surprisingly effective YIMBY reform, and lawsuits target missing middle housing in Virginia.
Coauthor Josh Braver and I argue exclusionary zoning violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Plus: rent control behind financial problems at NYCB, public housing's corruption problem, and New York City's near-zero vacancy rate.
Plus: the House votes for more affordable housing subsidies, Portland tries to fix its "inclusionary housing" program, and is 2024 the year of the granny flat?
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