Kamala Harris Enthusiastically Endorses Rent Control
The senator's own San Francisco is a case study in the policy's poor consequences.
The senator's own San Francisco is a case study in the policy's poor consequences.
Former BB&T Bank CEO John Allison vs. Moody's Mark Zandi
The bill comes with new risks for tenants and property owners alike.
A new poll shows 74 percent of San Francisco residents are in favor of a state bill that would peel back local restrictions on housing.
All three Senate Democrats running for president have distinctive housing reform proposals.
How much power does the state of California have to force NIMBY localities to build more housing?
How a heavily subsidized Culver City development became the nation's most expensive affordable housing project.
The Manhattan Institute's Howard Husock debates Economic Policy Institute's Richard Rothstein at the Soho Forum.
It's time to remedy the effects of that terrible policy.
And that will probably make housing less affordable, not more.
City officials determined years ago that the home was of no historic value.
Two unions called out for threats to sue if they don't get hired to build.
NYC's mayor takes on private property (again).
The next Reason/Soho Forum, in New York on January 14, pits Richard Rothstein vs. Howard Husock on how to correct a historic wrong.
The HUD secretary's desire to tackle restrictive zoning is encouraging, but real reform will have to come from the bottom up.
Bob Tillman has spent nearly 5 years and $1.4 million trying to convert his laundromat into new housing.
Reforms in multiple jurisdictions could help loosen restrictions on development that infringe on property rights, inflate housing prices, and cut off large numbers of people from job opportunities.
Cities and states are embracing bold housing reforms as the year ends.
The 1930s building must be rebuilt exactly as it was, save for a plaque explaining the details of its demolition.
Urban liberals are won over to libertarian policies, if not libertarian politics.
Zoning rules that severely restrict home construction cut off millions of poor people from jobs and affordable housing. The Minneapolis reform is the most extensive reduction in zoning achieved by any major American city in a long time.
California's local officials are always in favor of more housing in general, but rarely support the individual projects that come before them.
Senate Bill 50 would override restrictive local zoning laws to allow more housing construction near transit.
Lyndsey and Sharon Ballinger's lawsuit claims that Oakland's Uniform Relocation Ordinance is unconstitutional.
A brief look at 50-year cost and quality trends in cars, houses, college and health care.
Restrictions on the supply of new housing are making California's cities increasingly unaffordable.
A toxic mix of bad insurance regulations and bad housing regulations ensure Golden State residents will continue to return to fire ravaged areas.
This problem should inspire sympathy, not scorn.
Prop 10 is dead, but support for rent control is alive and well in the Golden State.
A billionaire progressive CEO and a dead free-market economist walk into a bar.
Prop. 10 would give cities free reign to reimpose rent control.
Community members in the Mission District worry that the proposed market-rate development will spur gentrification.
Leaving The Bay Area is a real estate brokerage that helps people decamp for cheaper, greener pastures.
The news network largely ignores the role of government restrictions on housing construction
Despite the claims of NIMBY activists, cities can build their way out of a housing crunch
The family real-estate business was powered by subsidies and cheap government-backed loans.
A positive but marginal reform to the Golden State's byzantine housing regulations
The American Housing and Economic Mobility Act would nearly double current federal housing spending.
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program is on the receiving end of yet another negative government watchdog report.
Apparently, nothing could get in the way of city employees' desire to party.
Robert Tillman's attempts to build housing have been frustrated by an increasingly ridiculous set of objections.
The feds hound Facebook for ads that allegedly violate the Fair Housing Act.
Khsama Sawant is doing everything in her power to kill a 442-unit apartment project because it would replace an iconic concert hall.
Saddled with unaffordable requirements, Axis kills plans for a 117-unit apartment building.
Hysterical NIMBYism reaches new heights in Berkeley.
Austin was part of a group murdered in Tajikistan.
Expensive tax credits for renters are not the solution to America's housing woes.