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"They should be paying us for burnishment—not suing us for tarnishment."
"They should be paying us for burnishment—not suing us for tarnishment."
A.B. 2179 would stop some local-level eviction moratoriums from going into effect, while leaving untouched ones that have been in place since the beginning of the pandemic.
Dutch officials are updating zoning laws to allow homes that are fixed to the shore but rise and fall with the water.
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Contamination from the Navy's Red Hill underground fuel facility on Oahu has reduced Honolulu's water supply by 20 percent. Water officials are considering a moratorium on new construction to conserve water.
City politicians and union activists have said the temporary ban on new delivery warehouses is meant to send a message that the company can't just open a new facility without first providing generous "community benefits."
A collapse in new development activity followed St. Paul voters' approval of a strict, vaguely written rent control ordinance. City and state officials are scrambling over how best to fix the new law.
Hispanics get slammed the hardest by licensing requirements that regulators can’t justify.
The government has learned nothing about affordable housing in the 50 years since Pruitt-Igoe came toppling down.
A California Supreme Court decision freezing enrollment at the state's flagship university is focusing the public's fury on the normally obscure, but incredibly consequential, California Environmental Quality Act.
They've been practicing African-style hair braiding for a combined 60 years. Now, these three women are suing for the right to make a living using their skills.
Since the 1960s, planners have convinced many state and regional governments to limit the physical spread of urban areas.
Supervisors have proposed legalizing fourplexes in a way that preserves NIMBYs’ ability to stop new housing. That could trigger the state’s obscure “builder’s remedy.”
Preservationists hope to make the one-time home of Loren Miller a historic landmark. That it would make it nearly impossible to redevelop the $1.4 million two-bedroom home.
Liberal Berkeley officials might be coming around to the view held by conservative business leaders, who have long argued that California's Environmental Quality Act needs an overhaul.
Azael Sepulveda is suing the city of Pasadena, Texas over its requirement that his autobody shop add 23 parking spaces he insists he doesn't need and can't afford.
A series of bills introduced in the state Legislature would prohibit city councils and county courts from adopting their own eviction moratoriums.
Despite apportioning over $1 billion for homeless housing, cost overruns and sluggish pacing threaten to jeopardize the city project.
Lawmakers are proposing to strip neighborhood activists of the legal tools they've used to freeze the university's student population.
Bianca King argues in a new lawsuit that Lakeway, Texas, zoning officials illegally deprived her of her right to earn a living by denying her a permit for her home day care business.
Brandon Krause has spent $30,000 trying to legalize a business that the city said for years was all up to code.
The comedian doesn’t want a new subdivision behind his house. Fortunately, he can’t stop it.
How the zeal for government project housing killed a prosperous black community in Detroit.
"Every house that's built is one more acre taken away from (mountain lions') habitat. Where are they going to go?" asks Woodside Mayor Dick Brown.
A pastor and a nonprofit challenge occupational licensing rules.
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church says that a Brookings, Oregon, law limiting its "benevolent meal service" to two days a week unconstitutionally restricts its religious mission to feed the hungry.
Despite shifting enforcement away from cops, NYC is still ticketing the dickens out of New York's street-food sellers.
Those who demand a revival of antitrust regulation to "promote competition" may not realize that they're inciting a revival of cronyism to suppress competition.
The city's restrictions threaten one of the world's most vibrant music scenes.
Long before the pandemic, millions of students were completing their education at home. I was one of them.
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"We can't even do the things we want to on our own property that aren't even hurting anyone."
Legislators on a crusade against monopolies should tackle occupational licensing boards before they target Big Tech.
Remy can’t shake off his distaste for San Francisco NIMBYs
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In the name of fostering innovation and choice, the bill would accomplish neither.
The New York congresswoman has endorsed much-needed zoning reform, but also raised typical NIMBY complaints about projects in her own backyard.
The latest from Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen), pushing back against threats of trademark litigation over parody.
Gloversville's Free Methodist Church has 40 beds ready and waiting at its downtown shelter. City officials say the zoning code doesn't allow people to sleep in them.
The San Fransicko author on fighting homelessness and mental illnesses without shredding civil liberties.
The traditional case for rent control isn't made any more convincing by a Democratic Socialists of America dance number.
Federal subsidies for higher education lead to market distortions that affect financially needy students.
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