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.
Best known as the "father of Harlem," he was guided by the theory that free markets penalize bigotry.
San Francisco rent control reduced affected rental housing by 15 percent while boosting citywide rents by 5 percent.
Recent evidence suggests it actually reduces it.
Now the city wants the laundromat studied to see if it is a historic resource.
State officials gleefully line their own pockets at taxpayers' expense.
Neighborhood residents demand a proposed affordable housing complex be five stories, not seven, to preserve "neighborhood character."
The city's new Linkage Fee law piles millions in new costs onto developers.
It's the worst sort of social engineering and special-interest payoff via the tax code.
A new California ballot initiative proposal combines wishful thinking with the heavy hand of government.
The city's housing authority committed to selling $138 million of government land for $17 million.
Suggestions from a New York real estate attorney
The state government should instead just get out of the way.
De Blasio literally wants to tell people what to do with their land.
A textbook case of good intentions gone awry
Developers blame new regulations.
California Treasurer John Chiang's conflicts of interest are not the first in the program's long and sordid history.
The move would likely put at-risk tenants out on the street.
The local government put "sustainability" ahead of safety.
Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law documents how federal housing policy forced blacks and whites apart.
The co-host of Last Podcast on the Left talks about Millennial libertarians, gun rights in New York City, and our fascination with serial killers.
People used to chase economic opportunity across the country. Then the government got in the way.
Elvis Summers crowdfunded $100,000 to build dozens of tiny homes. City officials looking to pass a $2 billion housing plan tried to shut him down.
At the minimum, county officials should look at government rules that exacerbate the suffering.
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.
