Federal and New York City officials recently adopted policy changes on migrant work permits and zoning reform similar to those advocated here (though probably not because I advocated them!)..
A new report details how the city's famed social housing system is suffering from diminishing affordability, deteriorating quality, and funding shortfalls.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development argues in its complaint that a failure to allow emotional support animals amounts to illegal disability discrimination under the Fair Housing Act.
The people who could benefit from new housing stock aren't on this map—they're exiled to unincorporated areas.
In the face of lawsuits and accusations of attempted "genocide," Green is restoring many homebuilding regulations he suspended in July.
The state legislature recently passed significant new laws constraining exclusionary zoning, thereby making it easier for property owners to build much-needed new housing on their land.
Overall inflation rose 0.6 percent in August leading to an annualized rate of 3.7 percent.
Two bills approved by the Legislature this week will make it easier to build affordable housing on church land and in coastal areas.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to name America's unsung or undersung heroes.
A coalition including the state ACLU, Sierra Club, and Native Hawaiian cultural groups argue Gov. Josh Green vastly exceeded his emergency powers when he waived most regulations on homebuilding.
"The city is treating our private property as the city's housing stock."
Plus: The Biden administration weighs a "remain in Texas" policy, California slowly but surely reforms its housing-killing environmental review law, and more...
Plus: Political campaigns will have to disclose if they use AI in their ads, the effort to rehabilitate rent control rumbles on, and more...
Republican-controlled Huntington Beach has sued the state government to stop enforcement of state housing mandates.
The country's current struggles show the problems of the Beijing way—and make the case for freedom.
"Colorado resort town in which snowball fights are illegal"
An emergency proclamation by Gov. Josh Green offers developers the opportunity to route around almost all regulations on building homes.
Can Caroline, New York, resist the imposition of its first-ever zoning code?
It's the predictable result of the combination of federal regulations barring asylum seekers from working legally and local policies offering free housing, while severely restricting new housing construction.
S.B. 423 would prevent the state's powerful Coastal Commission from shooting down affordable housing projects that comply with local zoning laws.
Eli Kahn and Salim Furth provide overview of developments in the states, and lessons that can be learned.
HOPE Fair Housing Center argues in a new federal complaint that an Illinois landlord's blanket refusal to rent to people with eviction records amounts to illegal sex and race discrimination.
Policy analyst Justin Hayes summarizes the reasons why conservatives, progressives, and libertarians all have reason to support zoning reform.
Instead, try making it easier to build more housing!
A town clamps down on distributing clothes, personal care items, and food to the homeless.
A new study from researchers at Northwestern University found that landlords were incentivized by rising rents to replace existing tenants with new market-rate-paying tenants.
This is the second RAISE grant San Francisco has received since the Biden administration retooled the program to reward jurisdictions for adopting zoning reforms.
The wildly popular podcaster is still "politically homeless" but says leaving California and having a kid have improved her life immensely.
At a minimum, the national debt should be smaller than the size of the economy. A committed president just might be able to deliver.
Rent control is getting a rhetorical makeover from progressive policy makers.
The country's largest legacy rent-control policy is pushing building owners to the breaking point.
Home prices were unaffected by a ban on buy-to-rent housing in the Netherlands, but more affordable rental housing disappeared.
Plus: Was Gerald Ford right to pardon Richard Nixon?
City Councilmember Curren Price is indicted for steering favors to affordable housing developers who were bribing his wife.
Today, voters will consider a citizen petition that would let landlords raise rents to market rates on vacant units.
Robert Poole's effort to defend exclusionary zoning falls prey to a combination of logical fallacies and factual error.
California recently enacted legislation that invalidates single-family zoning, as an effort to increase housing supply. Other alternatives would be wiser.
Meanwhile, big, partisan "everything bagel" zoning reform bills that tried to squeeze through the entire YIMBY agenda floundered.
Publicly funded leagues of cities are fighting zoning reforms in state capitals across the country.
Leading expert on political ignorance and housing comments on evidence indicating that ignorance, not self-interest, is at the root of most opposition to zoning reform.
The Tyler home equity theft case is just the tip of a much larger iceberg of property rights issues where stronger judicial protection can protect the interests of the poor and minorities, as well as promote the federalist values of localism and diversity.
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