Federal Judge David O. Carter says Los Angeles' “inaction" is "so egregious, and the state so nonfunctional" that it's likely "in violation of the Equal Protection Clause."
Congress approved $25 Billion in emergency rental assistance in December. Only 6 percent of that money has been spent so far.
The government and media relied on studies plagued by shoddy statistics to make the case for blocking evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brett Kavanaugh, who provided a crucial fifth vote, said he agrees that the CDC does not have the authority to override rental contracts.
The agency’s legal defense of its eviction moratorium implies that it has vast powers to order Americans around.
A majority refused to lift a stay of a district court injunction against the order, but five justices indicated they believe the order is illegal.
More and more cities have taken preliminary steps toward allowing "missing middle" housing options in once exclusive single-family neighborhoods, but the devil is in the details.
San Francisco politicians are raising eyebrows at the high costs of an emergency program that provides secure camping sites to the city's homeless.
The federal government's ban on the removal of non-paying tenants was supposed to expire on June 30. It'll now run through July 31.
Plus: Hong Kong police raid a pro-democracy newspaper, Fed officials change their tune on inflation, and more...
Crashing website and impenetrable government bureaucracy greet the tenants and landlords trying to access billions in federally funded rent relief.
Lawmakers are proposing to create a "California Dream Fund" that would subsidize up to 45 percent of the costs of a new home.
The dubious decision breaks a streak of wins for plaintiffs challenging the legality of the CDC order.
Cruel NIMBYism hides in call for historic preservation.
The Biden administration wants to give $5 billion to jurisdictions that deregulate their housing markets.
If politicians want lower housing prices, they need to let people build more housing.
As in the US, they often block the building of new housing in response to demand.
A crop of bipartisan bills in Congress aims to reduce local and state regulations on new housing.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to landmark the longtime home of gay rights activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin.
This ruling has some distinctive elements, and may have a broader impact than previous decisions.
A recent Century Foundation report highlights reasons why breaking down barriers to building new housing should appeal to left, right, and libertarians alike.
The Massachusetts Congresswoman is a two-time supporter of the Rent and Mortgage Cancelation Act.
The YIMBY Democrat wants to make it easier to build more housing in California's densest and most expensive cities.
Fixing a calculation error in a leading academic article on the subject shows that zoning has a far bigger negative impact on the economy than was previously realized.
The president endorses a competitive grant program that would reward localities for loosening their restrictive zoning codes.
A Philadelphia activist wants some stool samples, so he can prove a link between "irresponsible development" and colorectal cancer.
A unanimous Sixth Circuit decision upheld a lower court ruling holding that the moratorium is illegal.
The agency will be extending its controversial eviction moratorium through the end of June.
Residents of a building that sailed through the city's approval process want to stop a building next door because it would shade a senior center, alter a "historic" gay bar
Freezing rents at existing affordable housing will eliminate developers' incentive to build more of it.
The regulatory pursuit of quality housing means some tiny-home residents actually end up with no housing.
Could allowing blocks to upzone themselves end the most intractable feud in urban development?
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A nationwide ban on evictions is well outside the congressional power to regulate interstate commerce, ruled U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker on Thursday.
The lawsuit argues a 2,100-page environmental impact report for a major expansion of the University of California, San Francisco's Parnassus campus wasn't thorough enough.
A coalition of Chinese immigrant landlords in New York say they're on the verge of losing everything because of tenants who have stopped paying rent.
New bills in the legislature would make it easier for cities to allow more housing on their own, and crack down on places that try to cheat their way out of permitting development.
A new lawsuit from two YIMBY groups argues that the state failed to incorporate a jobs-housing balance when calculating the number of new homes the San Francisco Bay Area has to plan for.
A Democratic White House and a Republican Senate might be the best of all worlds when it comes to federal housing policy.
Biden's willingness to extend a nationwide eviction moratorium, while declining to mandate masks nationwide, demonstrates a worrying inconsistency in his views on presidential powers.
Biden correctly recognizes he doesn't have the authority to impose a general national mask mandate. The same reasoning shows the nationwide eviction ban is also illegal.
Eviction bans were enacted as an emergency public health measure. They’re quickly becoming a permanent policy.
The Harvard economist explains how to expand opportunity for the young by deregulating housing, labor, and education.
A growing number of states are enshrining eviction moratoriums into laws that won't expire until well into next year.
Congress' extension of a federal ban on evictions does little to address the legal problems with the policy.
Despite fears that a pandemic-ravaged economy would force renters from their homes in droves, evictions were down nationwide at the end of summer.
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