California's Rent Control Ballot Initiative Getting Crushed in New Poll
Only 37 percent of voters said they support Prop. 21, which would give local governments more power to limit rent hikes.
Only 37 percent of voters said they support Prop. 21, which would give local governments more power to limit rent hikes.
A mounting number of lawsuits are challenging the Trump administration's claim that it can adopt any policy it deems reasonably necessary to combat the pandemic.
San Francisco, New York City, Boston, and other large metro areas have posted double-digit drops in rent.
When it comes to the two major party candidates' housing plans, libertarians are left looking for the lesser of two evils.
House Democrats had approved $71 billion in assistance to homeowners and renters. The White House said it would agree to $60 billion. Now they'll get $0.
The president renewed his attack that a Biden presidency would wipe out the suburbs. Biden accused Trump of racist dog whistles.
How did California's housing shortage happen and why is it so intractable?
The National Apartment Association has joined a lawsuit brought by four individual landlords arguing the CDC's nationwide eviction moratorium is both illegal and unconstitutional.
Removing single-family zoning will not dismantle the suburbs, but it will dismantle the ability of NIMBYs to use the government to control other people's property.
A new lawsuit argues that the city and state's eviction bans are an unconstitutional impairment of contracts unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Trump administration's new nationwide eviction moratorium provokes a backlash from some congressional Republicans.
It's a power grab that could undermine federalism and separation of powers, and imperil property rights.
The Trump administration is pushing the envelope of its executive authority by issuing a new blanket eviction moratorium for all rental properties nationwide.
The typecasting of builders as villains might help explain why NIMBYs so often win the policy battles over urban growth and development.
The Trump administration has abandoned its own promising housing reforms in favor of toxic culture war politics.
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NIMBYism comes in many different ideological stripes. Fewer homes and higher rents is always the result.
The president has ditched a promising, free market-influenced revamp of Obama-era fair housing regulations in favor of a legally dubious new rule that's heavy on local control.
Officials in Oakland County, Michigan, are worried they could be on the hook for more than $30 million in payments to former homeowners victimized by an aggressive forfeiture scheme.
The Bedrooms Are For People campaign would repeal the city's existing limits on unrelated people living in the same house.
Democrats in Congress are floating plans for billions more in rental assistance, and a blanket nationwide moratorium on evictions to forestall a potential housing crisis during the pandemic.
The switch threatens an initiative to repeal Boulder's restrictions on unrelated people living together.
Government growth and abuses are not challenged nearly enough.
The president's criticism of the 2015 AFFH rule is an implicit attack on his own housing reforms.
What started as a largely uncontroversial emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic has now become subject of intense legal and policy battles.
The California state legislature has done everything in its power to legalize accessory dwelling units. A new lawsuit probes whether it's done enough.
Democrats' HEROES Act is mostly about messaging. And it sends all the wrong messages on housing.
Giving renters direct assistance is a better idea than rent cancelation, but that's not saying much.
Rent strikes and calls for rent cancellation proliferate across the country.
The coronavirus shutdown might alter buying patterns, as more people flee tightly packed cities for suburban, exurban, and rural areas.
The Minnesota congresswoman's proposal to cancel rents and mortgages during the coronavirus pandemic is both wildly impractical and constitutionally dubious.
The feds pushed cities to implement zoning restrictions. High prices and social inequality were the inevitable results.
Alexandria, Virginia, is the latest city to entertain demands to cancel rent payments during the current pandemic.
And they are taking full advantage of the opportunity
Yes, tenants are losing their jobs because of the COVID-19 shutdown, but forcing businesses to provide services for free would have a ripple effect.
Sen. Mike Gianaris (D–Queens) argues eviction moratoriums don't go far enough to protect renters who've been put out of a job because of the virus.
The new rule would ask localities receiving federal funding to report on their housing market outcomes and propose concrete steps for improving affordability.
Emergency measures can easily become routine policy.
State legislators want to allow duplexes statewide and eliminate local governments' ability to impose aesthetic design requirements.
State lawmakers want to override local zoning codes to let churches and other nonprofits build affordable housing on their own land.
The city's voters, politicians, and activists should stop trying to dictate how exactly their city will change over the years. They’re not very good at it.
The new money will be consumed in a bureaucratic hiring frenzy, used to pay state-level salaries and pensions, and build a bigger "homeless industrial complex."
Local activists have argued that the housing officials in charge of reviewing the Suffolk Downs mega-development has violated residents' civil rights by not translating enough planning documents into Spanish, Arabic
Land use regulation is making cities unaffordable. In an unfettered market, how would Americans choose to live?