California's Housing Policy Fight Is Flipping Traditional Political Alliances
Democrats are in favor of reducing the power of government over property owners, while Republicans want bureaucrats to rule.
Democrats are in favor of reducing the power of government over property owners, while Republicans want bureaucrats to rule.
From immigration to drug reform, there is plenty of potential for productive compromise.
D.C officials are calling for sweeping reforms to D.C. Housing Authority's governance, or even a federal takeover, in the wake of a damning new report.
State officials have been warning Anaheim for decades that their regulations on transitional housing were illegal. The city's rejection of nonprofit Grandma's House of Hope's group home was the last straw.
It will just give the state more power to control those deemed mentally ill.
Local YIMBY advocates express concern that the tool, as written, is overly vague and could be exploited to stop development.
A new law would make it harder for NIMBY neighbors to obstruct new dorms with bogus environmental complaints.
A technically astounding film that turns a French housing block into a political warzone.
The St. Paul City Council passed a series of amendments to a voter-passed rent stabilization ordinance that exempt new construction and make it easier for landlords to factor inflation into rent increases.
A new report from The Community Housing Improvement Program argues that allowable rent hikes in rent-stabilized buildings cover less than half the increase in operating costs.
The White House is giving $1.5 billion in INFRA grants to entities that either don't approve new housing or are actively opposed to making it easier to build.
The proposed policy was offensive to property rights and disincentivized construction. The mayor's rejection of it shows the state's increasing interest in allowing more building.
The rapper blamed a lack of "motherfucking inventory" for high home prices and rising rents in low-income neighborhoods. She's not the only one.
The cost of shelter was up 0.7 percent in August and 6.2 percent for the year, according to the latest Consumer Price Index report.
The state's Republican administration comes out against property rights and local control.
A never-before-used state law might make his plans bulletproof.
Government should not penalize investment, thwart competition, discourage innovation and work, or obstruct production.
Labor Day is the right time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet.
But Bank of America's Community Affordable Loan Solution program will likely be a gentrification accelerating machine.
Associate Editor Christian Britschgi breaks down how zoning restrictions distort the housing market.
California's cities require developers to include a minimum number of parking spaces in their projects, regardless of whether those spaces are in demand. A state bill would change that.
The city's expanded down payment assistance program is a recipe for increasing home prices.
The California Environmental Quality Act gives everyone the right to delay the approval of new housing. The Golden State's NIMBY activists are happy to exercise that right.
Florida landlords and realtors argue that Orange County is abusing its emergency powers.
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Little, if any, of the $2.2 billion in RAISE grants have gone to jurisdictions proactively deregulating housing construction.
The governor blamed local restrictions on new development for the state's rapidly rising rents and home prices.
Builders are starting fewer new housing projects but housing construction rates remain steady. Experts say it's a product of inflation catching up with persistent supply chain problems.
The venture capitalist's $350 million investment in WeWork founder Adam Neumann's new venture Flow is supposed to help renters build community and equity. They'd be better off if we just built housing instead.
State housing officials have launched a first-ever investigation of the city's housing policies and practices, setting the stage for far more sweeping interventions.
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The government should not take away reliable and affordable housing from those who need it most.
New housing construction for 1,100 UC Berkeley students and 125 homeless people was paused Wednesday in response to protests.
The new reconciliation bill also nixes a zoning reform program that had been included in the more expansive Build Back Better bill.
The mayor promised to reopen city playgrounds, but more of them are currently closed than before he took office.
The mayor vetoed a controversial ordinance that would have legalized more types of housing on paper while making it harder to build in practice.
Conservatives' guiding principle should always be less government control, not more.
Good intentions, bad results.
Zoning laws, a limited housing stock, and inflation have created a major housing shortage in the bubble-prone region.
But it does so on the ground that the moratorium was never properly "authorized," not because a moratorium could never be a taking.
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Property owners can now build fourplexes in San Francisco, but only if they've owned the land for five years, place the new units under rent control, and don't try to make them much larger than a single-family home.
Two St. Paul, Minnesota, landlords claim that the city's restrictions on rent increases above 3 percent amounts to a taking of their property without due process or compensation.
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