California Rent Control Ballot Initiative Goes Down in Flames. Free Marketers Should Not Be Too Hasty in Celebrating Its Demise.
Prop 10 is dead, but support for rent control is alive and well in the Golden State.
Housing Policy
The Hottest Midterm Race Is Milton Friedman Versus Marc Benioff
A billionaire progressive CEO and a dead free-market economist walk into a bar.
California Is Starting to Make Halting Progress Toward Alleviating Its Housing Shortage. This Ballot Initiative Could Kill That Progress.
Prop. 10 would give cities free reign to reimpose rent control.
San Francisco Activists Irate That Developer Wants To Replace Burned Out Apartment Building With—Wait for It—More Apartments
Community members in the Mission District worry that the proposed market-rate development will spur gentrification.
A New Company Helps People Flee San Francisco's Ridiculous Cost of Living
Leaving The Bay Area is a real estate brokerage that helps people decamp for cheaper, greener pastures.
CNN Blames San Francisco's Booming Tech Sector for a Government-Created Housing Shortage
The news network largely ignores the role of government restrictions on housing construction
Booming Construction and Falling Rents in Seattle and Portland Show Laws of Supply and Demand Still Apply to Housing
Despite the claims of NIMBY activists, cities can build their way out of a housing crunch
Trump Isn't a Self-Made Man. His Wealth Is the Product of Years of Government Subsidies.
The family real-estate business was powered by subsidies and cheap government-backed loans.
Victory for Low Expectations! New California Housing Bill Isn't Terrible!
A positive but marginal reform to the Golden State's byzantine housing regulations
Elizabeth Warren's New Bill Would Spend $500 Billion on Housing
The American Housing and Economic Mobility Act would nearly double current federal housing spending.
Report: Federal Low Income Housing Program Lacks Basic Anti-Fraud Safeguards
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program is on the receiving end of yet another negative government watchdog report.
NYC Housing Authority Embroiled in Boozy, Salacious Orgy Scandal
Apparently, nothing could get in the way of city employees' desire to party.
San Francisco Man Prevented from Turning His 'Historic Laundromat' Into Apartment Building Is Suing the City for $17 Million
Robert Tillman's attempts to build housing have been frustrated by an increasingly ridiculous set of objections.
Could Violating Federal Housing Laws Finally Bring Facebook Down?
The feds hound Facebook for ads that allegedly violate the Fair Housing Act.
Seattle's Socialist City Council Member Thinks Housing Is a Human Right—Unless it Comes at the Expense of Music Venues
Khsama Sawant is doing everything in her power to kill a 442-unit apartment project because it would replace an iconic concert hall.
San Francisco Activists Demanded 100 Percent Affordable Housing From a Developer. Now They're Getting None.
Saddled with unaffordable requirements, Axis kills plans for a 117-unit apartment building.
NIMBYs to Developer: Your Proposed Building Blocks Too Much Sun, Reminds Us of Native American Genocide
Hysterical NIMBYism reaches new heights in Berkeley.
Jay Austin, Tiny House Innovator, Killed in Attack Claimed by ISIS
Austin was part of a group murdered in Tajikistan.
New Kamala Harris Bill Asks Federal Taxpayers to Subsidize California's High Housing Costs
Expensive tax credits for renters are not the solution to America's housing woes.
Trump's Plan To Privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Leaves Taxpayers on the Hook for Future Bailouts
In his sweeping reform proposal, President Trump suggests a privatization scheme for the GSEs behind the 2008 recession, but it doesn't go nearly far enough.
San Francisco Delays Building 4 Years in the Making Because New Apartments Will Cast Shadows?!
The owner of a "historic" laundromat has been thwarted at every turn in his bid to build apartments in a city in the midst of a housing crisis.
A New Report Exaggerates the Problem of Housing Affordability To Push Expensive Federal Interventions
The 2018 "Out of Reach" report ignores the many options available to workers about how they live, work, and spend
Philadelphia Wants To Tax Housing Construction to Make Housing Cheaper
Real estate investors worry a new construction tax will halt construction in an already-heavily taxed city.
San Francisco Voters Choose Between a 1000 Percent Tax Increase and a 500 Percent Tax Increase
The city's "moderates" and "progressives" fight over whether to raise taxes or raise taxes.
Rent Control Feeds Inequality in San Francisco
San Francisco is famously America's most expensive city.
California Über Alles? Only in Counterproductive, Outdated Housing Policy
Over the next 30 years, Texas may overtake the Golden State because it is more welcoming to newcomers.
In Seattle, Amazon Shrugs
The city attempts to wring more money from its employers rather than fix its housing problems.
Rent-Control Initiative Could Obliterate California's Housing Markets
San Francisco is facing a housing crisis, but overturning current limits on rent-controlled apartments threaten to make the problem worse, not better.
Seattle Sued Over Law Banning Landlords From Conducting Criminal Background Checks
Violators are required to take classes to reduce racial bias.
Getting Crony Capitalism Half Right
The solution to government interference isn't more of it.
The Defeat of California Senate Bill 827 and the Future of the Struggle to Curb Zoning
A California bill that would have greatly liberalized zoning rules failed in the state legislature. The defeat has implications for the broader struggle to expand housing and job opportunities for the poor.
Anti-Development Forces Kill Free-Market Housing Reform in California
SB 827 would have opened up swaths of California's cities to new construction. Now it's dead.
Los Angeles Spends More Than a Decade Trying to Turn a Vacant Lot Into 'Transit-Oriented Development'
There are no angels in this long-running turf war.
Affordable Housing Proponents Critical of Permit Streamlining Law Use Permit Streamlining Law to Build Critical Affordable Housing
A flawed law has nonetheless improved San Francisco's absurd building approval process.
California's Housing Reform Bill Is a Hot Mess. It Would Be Great If It Passed.
SB 827 is a progressive-backed mix of climate change goals and tenant protections. It is also a major free market reform.
Trump's Tariffs Will Make Housing More Unaffordable
Steel tariffs are likely to make prices rise further, particularly in markets where housing demand is already outpacing supply.
Concerns Over Historic Sidewalks, Endangered Garter Snakes Hold Up Construction of San Francisco Home
Troy Kashanipour's experience trying to erect a code-compliant home on his own property shows how stacked San Francisco's approval process is against builders.
Philip Payton Jr.: The Crusading Capitalist Who Outwitted New York's Racist Landlords
Best known as the "father of Harlem," he was guided by the theory that free markets penalize bigotry.
Shocker! Rent Control Makes Housing Scarcer and More Expensive
San Francisco rent control reduced affected rental housing by 15 percent while boosting citywide rents by 5 percent.
Voting with Your Feet Does Not Lead to Segregation
Recent evidence suggests it actually reduces it.
San Francisco Man Has Spent 4 Years and $1 Million Trying to Get Approval to Turn His Own Laundromat Into an Apartment Building
Now the city wants the laundromat studied to see if it is a historic resource.
The Corrupt Politics of Low-Income Housing
State officials gleefully line their own pockets at taxpayers' expense.
NIMBYism in San Francisco Reaches New Heights With Shorter Buildings
Neighborhood residents demand a proposed affordable housing complex be five stories, not seven, to preserve "neighborhood character."
Los Angeles Wants to Make Housing Affordable by Making it More Expensive
The city's new Linkage Fee law piles millions in new costs onto developers.
Kill the Mortgage Interest Deduction Now!
It's the worst sort of social engineering and special-interest payoff via the tax code.
We Can't Reduce Housing Costs by Wishing for Rent Control
A new California ballot initiative proposal combines wishful thinking with the heavy hand of government.
