NIMBY Towns, Fake Parks, and Eminent Domain
Plus: unpermitted ADUs in San Jose, Sen. J.D. Vance's mass deportation plan for housing affordability, and the California Coastal Commission's anti-housing record.
Plus: unpermitted ADUs in San Jose, Sen. J.D. Vance's mass deportation plan for housing affordability, and the California Coastal Commission's anti-housing record.
There may not be a perfect solution to ending homelessness, but there are some clear principles to reduce the friction for those working to do so.
It is coauthored with Josh Braver.
Plus: Sen. John Fetterman introduces a new zoning reform bill, U.C. Berkeley finally beats the NIMBYs in court, and Austin's unwise "equity overlay."
Recent studies diverge on the extent to which public opinion backs policies that would deregulate housing construction. YIMBYs would do well to learn from both.
A guest post on economist Bryan Caplan's Bet On It substack.
Plus: An interview with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis about the state's blockbuster year for housing reform.
Moving is no longer a viable way to grow your wealth in the U.S., says the author of Build, Baby, Build.
Plus: The results of rent control are in, California's tiny home program gets minimal results, and yet another city eyes a crackdown on short-term rentals.
Plus: Austin shrinks its minimum lot sizes, Florida builds on past zoning reforms, and Arizona passes ADU and missing middle bills.
A listing of his four posts on different aspects of the book and the issues it raises.
Specificity, fertility, and political assimilation. Fourth in a series of guest-blogging posts.
Price controls lead to the misallocation of resources, shortages, diminished product quality, and black markets.
Checking the credibility of Hsieh-Moretti the lazy way. Third in a series of guest-blogging posts.
The Institute for Justice has launched a project to reform land use regulation.
Plus: Colorado passes a string of zoning reforms, an upscale Los Angeles grocery store sues to stop new housing, and Democrats urge the White House to get moving on fair housing.
Privatization of federal and state land is a massive missed opportunity. Second in a series of guest-blogging posts.
These new regulations will drive up housing costs even further.
Why *Build, Baby, Build* should be a top libertarian priority. First in a series of guest-blogging posts.
The book makes the case for massively deregulating housing markets.
The George Mason University economist talks about his new housing comic book and how America could deregulate its way into an affordable urban utopia.
Restricting the price of housing kills incentives to supply places to live.
A new study shows deportation of undocumented migrants reduces housing construction by diminishing the supply of workers needed to do it.
Plus: California's landmark law ending single-family-only zoning is struck down, Austin, Texas, moves forward with minimum lot size reform, and the pro-natalist case for pedestrian infrastructure.
Kennedy’s plan for government-backed mortgage bonds will do to housing what federal student loans have done to college tuition.
Homeowners associations are the most, and the least, libertarian form of governance.
The needless complexity of affordable housing programs are hurting people they're supposed to help.
The Eighth Amendment provides little, if any, protection for the homeless. But courts can help them by striking down exclusionary zoning, which is the major cause of housing shortages that lead to homelessness.
Which is bad news for anyone hoping to rent a place to live.
Economist Bryan Caplan, former National Association of Home Builders Director Jerry Howard, and I will speak at event sponsored by the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
Plus: Zoning reform in Minnesota stalls, a New York housing "deal" does little for housing supply, and Colorado ends occupancy limits.
Plus: Problems for Saudi Arabia's The Line, Hawaii considers a short-term rental crackdown, and when affordable housing mandates get you less affordable housing.
Moratoria caused landlords to be less willing to rent to black tenants.
Urban policy analyst Addison Del Mastro advances it in the Catholic journal America.
New Zealand alleviated a severe housing shortage by liberalizing regulations that had previously blocked most new construction.
In interview with Joe Selvaggi of the Pioneer Institute, I explain the harm caused by exclusionary zoning, and why it violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Plus: The White House's rent controls, San Francisco's bad-to-worse turn on housing, and the latest unintended consequence of eviction moratoriums
Too many property owners are having trouble asserting their rights, but not everything is "squatter's rights."
Giving the state control over insurance rates turned pricing into a Byzantine regulatory process.
Where these laws allow squatters to occupy houses without the owner's consent, they qualify as takings of private property that require payment of compensation under the Fifth Amendment.
Plus: New York refreshes rent control, AOC and Bernie Sanders call for more, greener public housing, and California's "builder's remedy" wins big in court.
In Fragile Neighborhoods, author Seth Kaplan applies his Fixing Fragile States observations domestically.
Plus: Squatters, Julian Assange, teen babysitters, Hong Kong migration, and more...
Plus: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is fooled by TikTok housing falsehoods, Austin building boom cuts prices, and Sacramento does the socialist version of "homeless homesteading."
The New York Times and the Atlantic report on how the movement to curb exclusionary zoning and build more housing has managed to cut across ideological lines.
The Colorado governor talks about live housing reforms in the state legislature, the federal role in housing policy, and whether we should abolish zoning completely.