Don't Blame AirBnb For New York City's High Rents
High rents have been a problem a lot longer then Airbnb has existed.
High rents have been a problem a lot longer then Airbnb has existed.
San Francisco activists push for more construction in Baghdad by the Bay.
San Francisco's YIMBY movement is pushing the city to build its way out of the housing crisis.
The proposal would have blocked residents from renting out their entire home.
Government rules and regulations on the local and state level have driven prices up.
The only solution is more housing. But people want the city the way it is: unaffordable.
Progressive economist gets supply-and-demand, to a point.
Says the notion that expanding the housing market benefits both poor and rich sounds "counterintuitive"
Rental properties are checked regularly top to bottom, and some landlords are challenging the intrusion on their right to privacy.
60% of mayors in expensive cities favor requiring developers "to include more affordable housing in new projects even if doing so deters some new development."
Surprise: A bureaucracy powerful enough to evict your neighbors for no good reason can do the same to you.
State Supreme Court ruling will make California housing even pricier
Reversing policies that restrict housing is far more effective than grants
Proposed rule treats poor people like children and exposes government paternalism at its most naked.
Proposition F would have been a lawsuit factory for NIMBY neighbors.
Progressive politicians from L.A. to New York face a crisis partly of their own making
Public housing politics takes center stage in David Simon's new HBO miniseries.
Government means never having to say you're sorry
A new lawsuit claims New York's affordable housing program discriminates against blacks and Latinos.
Redefining language to arrive at anti-market solutions to government-exacerbated problems
Neutron bombs could not have emptied and destroyed the Bronx more effectively than did rent control.
The quest for affordable housing drives up costs for many for the benefit of a few
The chronic shortage of inexpensive housing is really a blaring signal for government to get out of the way.
The latest economic nonsense from the mayor of New York City.
Whether or not the "sharing economy" is properly communal, it better satisfies human needs. Naturally people want to kill it.
Left-wing regulations are increasing inequality, reducing affordable housing, and killing economic opportunities.
New York's clownish political leaders are in a tizzy.
Housing subsidies go to families making up to $193K.
How not to deal with abandoned foreclosed homes.
J.P. Morgan "rolls up its sleeves" and gets to work in saving Detroit.
At least the private ones aren't subsidized by taxpayers