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.
Somerville still has costly regulations on the books even though New Jersey has legalized the sale of home-baked items.
Even Obamacare's fiercest advocates say it has not lived up to its goals.
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.
Miami and Austin lured people away from California. But the new tech hubs could end up repeating San Francisco’s mistakes.
What was once a classic Silicon Valley success story has become the victim of an intensely ideological war on nicotine.
The comedian largely ignores laws against new supply while arguing we should declare housing a federally funded, government-provided human right.
Three environmentalists groups had argued that the city failed to perform a state-required environmental analysis of its Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan.
The legislation is likely to have a number of negative consequences for consumers.
Even if the value of their property goes down, current homeowners still often have much to gain from breaking down barriers to new housing construction.
St. Paul has seen a 61 percent decrease in building permits after the city imposed rent control on future housing.
A Urban Institute research brief found that affordable housing developments in Alexandria, Virginia, were associated with a small increase in surrounding property values.
This month, the city passed a number of liberalizing reforms that legalize more types of housing and make already-legal homes more practical to build.
Colorado's governor on parenting, partisanship, and sensible pandemic responses
As COVID-19 spread across the country, complex rules around land use and building permits made housing the poor and vulnerable effectively impossible.
People believe and say things that aren't true all of the time, of course. But efforts by public officials to combat them may well make things worse, not better.
The Moore family has lived on their land for generations. Now the state of Alabama says their homes must make way for a highway.
The mayor's 'City of Yes' initiative would peel back regulations on everything from dancing in bars to all-studio apartment buildings.
The idea is exactly as dumb as it sounds.
Attacking big firms just for being big could drive up prices.
Officials in Marin County, California, argue a temporary moratorium on new short-term rentals in western portions of the county is necessary to preserve the area's limited housing stock.
Research on the effects of Oregon's loosening of its self-service gas ban finds that allowing adults to pump their own gas increases supply and lowers prices.
Politicians overstate the situation, and to the extent there is a problem, it’s their doing.
The administration is encouraging counterproductive "inclusionary zoning" policies that often raise housing prices and reduce supply.
When politicians break the economy, they hurt us in the short term but also create future opportunities to do harm in the name of undoing the damage they inflicted.
Pittsburgh-area developers argue in a new lawsuit that the city's requirement that they include affordable units in their projects is an unconstitutional taking.
The account posted items such as (in mid-2020), "ASU: No More Social Distancing. No More Masks. It Is Time to Party!"
The bill would penalize companies for price gouging during times of war, public health emergencies, or natural disasters—which would have encompassed all of the last two years.
Petoskey's draft ordinance would require both "legitimate" fortunetellers and people pretending to tell fortunes to be licensed, calling into question the sense of licensing at all.
Housing production is rising and rents are falling. But newly legal duplexes and triplexes make up only a tiny fraction of new development.
Maria Falcon doesn't have a business license. So New York police officers detained her and confiscated all of her merchandise.
Protectionist policies stymie trade and make Americans poorer.
Atlantic writer Jerusalem Demsas argues that blue states can't give "refuge" to people fleeing abortion restrictions if they don't cut back on zoning restrictions that lead to sky-high housing costs.
The answer to this important question is highly uncertain. I tentatively predict a significant, but still modest, increase in abortion-driven migration.
Officials in Gallatin County, Montana, say a state law that prohibits local governments from forcing businesses to turn customers away is preventing it from cracking down on zoning code violators.
The administration is proposing to spend $10 billion over ten years incentivizing local and state governments to remove regulatory barriers to new housing construction.
Today's big powerful companies could become tomorrow's also-rans, no government intervention required.
"It's a lot to try and put this stuff all together all on my own, using my own savings, and then having to start all over," says Venus Vegan Tattoo owner Selena Carrion.
The Pine Tree State is embracing California-style housing reforms. It could run into California-style problems.
Trying to sue or zone bitcoin mines out of town is the wrong response to the tradeoffs the industry presents.
These "inclusionary zoning" policies have a record of increasing housing costs and suppressing new housing supply.
The history of wine delivery is pretty clear.
