In Seattle, Amazon Shrugs
The city attempts to wring more money from its employers rather than fix its housing problems.
Housing Policy
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.
Atlanta Scrambles to Get Out of Expensive Deal It Forgot It Made
The city's housing authority committed to selling $138 million of government land for $17 million.
Government Created the Housing Crisis. Government Can Solve It.
Suggestions from a New York real estate attorney
California Tries To Fix Housing Affordability Crisis By Making Housing More Expensive
The state government should instead just get out of the way.
New York Mayor to Property Owners: Drop Dead
De Blasio literally wants to tell people what to do with their land.
Seattle Bans Landlords from Running Criminal Background Checks
A textbook case of good intentions gone awry
Affordable Housing Regulations Crushing New Home Construction in L.A.
Developers blame new regulations.
California Gubernatorial Candidate Steered Low-Income Housing Funds To Campaign Contributors
California Treasurer John Chiang's conflicts of interest are not the first in the program's long and sordid history.
San Francisco Demands That Landlord Dismantle Veterans' Housing
The move would likely put at-risk tenants out on the street.
Green Building Practices May Have Contributed to the Grenfell Fire
The local government put "sustainability" ahead of safety.
How the Government Created Housing Segregation [Reason Podcast]
Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law documents how federal housing policy forced blacks and whites apart.
Podcasting Star Ben Kissel Is Running For Brooklyn Borough President!
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.
Why Aren't More Americans Moving?
People used to chase economic opportunity across the country. Then the government got in the way.
This LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless
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.
Bureaucracy, Funding No Cure for Homeless Problem
At the minimum, county officials should look at government rules that exacerbate the suffering.
Don't Blame AirBnb For New York City's High Rents
High rents have been a problem a lot longer then Airbnb has existed.
Yes In My Backyard
San Francisco activists push for more construction in Baghdad by the Bay.
Build More Housing
San Francisco's YIMBY movement is pushing the city to build its way out of the housing crisis.
Raleigh City Council Fails To Approve Airbnb Regulations
The proposal would have blocked residents from renting out their entire home.
Californians Can Build Their Way Out of the Housing Shortage
Government rules and regulations on the local and state level have driven prices up.
San Francisco Tries to Square Progressivism with Housing Progress
The only solution is more housing. But people want the city the way it is: unaffordable.
