The White House Offers More Money, Less Detail on Its Idea for 'YIMBY Grants'
The Biden administration wants to give $5 billion to jurisdictions that deregulate their housing markets.
The Biden administration wants to give $5 billion to jurisdictions that deregulate their housing markets.
A new antitrust suit targets third-party seller agreements.
If politicians want lower housing prices, they need to let people build more housing.
Charles Marohn called himself an engineer in speeches and articles while his license was temporarily expired. The First Amendment protects his right to do that.
The New York Blood Center wants a larger headquarters to continue its cutting-edge medical research. Activists claim the new building will cast too much shadow.
As in the US, they often block the building of new housing in response to demand.
The calls to implement such a plan are based on incorrect assumptions and a passive media.
A crop of bipartisan bills in Congress aims to reduce local and state regulations on new housing.
The Restoring Board Immunity Act would give states yet another reason to rein in overzealous licensing authorities.
A member of the board (and a Cato Institute vice president) defends the controversial decision to kick the former president off the social media platform.
With depressing job reports, why not eliminate more laws that keep people from doing jobs they want to do and people want to pay them to do?
Government officials who wield land grabs to pick economic winners and losers now want to use them to kill disfavored businesses.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to landmark the longtime home of gay rights activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin.
This ruling has some distinctive elements, and may have a broader impact than previous decisions.
"It's very obvious that nobody involved in [the bill] consulted a First Amendment lawyer," says TechFreedom's Berin Szóka.
Like all licensing schemes, this one will raise prices for consumers, hurt entrepreneurs, and protect the interests of the big guys in the market.
PennEast v. New Jersey features a clash between the power of eminent domain and state sovereign immunity.
A recent Century Foundation report highlights reasons why breaking down barriers to building new housing should appeal to left, right, and libertarians alike.
The Massachusetts Congresswoman is a two-time supporter of the Rent and Mortgage Cancelation Act.
By invoking the magic of good intentions, the Times justifies the U.S. acting like Russia and China.
Hawley’s legislation would give officials more room to unilaterally punish business behaviors they personally don’t like.
"We are utterly devastated," said Baudilia Cavazos.
The YIMBY Democrat wants to make it easier to build more housing in California's densest and most expensive cities.
Fixing a calculation error in a leading academic article on the subject shows that zoning has a far bigger negative impact on the economy than was previously realized.
The state legislature and Gov. Jared Polis are unshackling local ranchers and consumers.
Two state bills would generally prohibit local code enforcement officials from acting on anonymously reported violations.
Seattle is taking steps in the right direction, but the state legislature is dragging its feet.
The role of the state is to protect rights and guard against fraud, not to prevent people from making risky choices.
The president endorses a competitive grant program that would reward localities for loosening their restrictive zoning codes.
Technological innovation makes gathering visual land data easier and cheaper—and threatens an industry’s status quo.
A Philadelphia activist wants some stool samples, so he can prove a link between "irresponsible development" and colorectal cancer.
A unanimous Sixth Circuit decision upheld a lower court ruling holding that the moratorium is illegal.
The agency will be extending its controversial eviction moratorium through the end of June.
Residents of a building that sailed through the city's approval process want to stop a building next door because it would shade a senior center, alter a "historic" gay bar
Freezing rents at existing affordable housing will eliminate developers' incentive to build more of it.
Free people and free markets reduced poverty in the past and are capable of doing so again.
The regulatory pursuit of quality housing means some tiny-home residents actually end up with no housing.
Could allowing blocks to upzone themselves end the most intractable feud in urban development?
Helping innovative companies fast-track products to market is a great way to recover from the COVID economy
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All professions deserve the same constitutional protections that speech-heavy industries get.
A nationwide ban on evictions is well outside the congressional power to regulate interstate commerce, ruled U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker on Thursday.
The lawsuit argues a 2,100-page environmental impact report for a major expansion of the University of California, San Francisco's Parnassus campus wasn't thorough enough.