'Jane Jacobs Goals Through Robert Moses Tactics'
Community planners don't have all the answers.
Community planners don't have all the answers.
New proposed regulations from the White House's Council on Environmental Quality would limit how long federal environmental reviews could last.
A group of homeless mothers moved into an Oakland, California, home they didn't own.
People who want to work should be allowed to work.
Right now, most licensing boards require that the majority of members be from the same licensed profession. It's not difficult to see how that leads to anti-competitive rules.
But the underlying problems remain unaddressed.
New York City has failed to zone for enough housing to keep pace with growth.
And it might make housing more affordable in many places. Conservative NIMBYs should not stand in the way.
Del. Vaughn Stewart (D–Montgomery County) says a mix of new private and public housing is needed to combat Maryland's housing affordability problems.
Despite amendments to make the bill more palatable to local governments and community activists, Sen. Scott Wiener's (D–San Francisco) SB 50 faces an uphill battle.
A massive 15 foot tall Trump/Pence yard sign has unfortunately turned political.
The Trump administration's proposed rewrite of fair housing regulations would ditch lengthy Obama-era reporting requirements in favor of a laserlike focus on housing affordability.
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High permit fees and unprepared bureaucrats get in the way of delicious street tacos and bacon dogs.
The legislation would allow duplexes on any residential plot in the state.
Many jurisdictions are alleviating housing shortgages by cutting back on zoning. Unfortunately, there is also a trend towards expanding rent control, which is likely to have the opposite effect.
NIMBYism has dominated housing policy for the last ten years. Will the 2020s be any better?
Joey Mucha wanted to convert his warehouse into a restaurant, bar, and arcade. Then community activists intervened.
The Ninth Circuit says no, and the Supreme Court isn't weighing in.
The decision leaves intact local governments’ power to force private developers to build affordable housing.
The initiative would leave untouched all the city regulations that've made it so hard to start a business in the first place.
The legislation aims to undo the "egregiously unconstitutional registration, taxation, and regulation of short-barreled rifles."
In the midst of a housing crisis, L.A. politicians have decided to limit their own incentives to allow more housing construction.
Los Angeles County saw disease outbreaks and 1,000 homeless deaths last year.
A Department of Justice lawsuit argues Hesperia’s rental ordinance amounts to illegal racial discrimination.
But she's wrong about why it's bad.
The Homes for All Act misdiagnoses the roots of the country's housing problems, then adds a boundless faith in the feds' ability to solve them.
The struggles Joey Mucha had to go through to secure a simple change of use permit highlight the problems inherent in San Francisco's planning process.
"Liberty," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "is unobstructed action according to our will; but rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others."
More federal spending won’t make housing more accessible as long as regulations and zoning drive up prices.
Neighbors say Joey Mucha's plans for a Skee-Ball arcade in the Mission would be a positive addition to the community. Activists disagree.
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Dramatic increases in federal spending will not “unlock access” for the poor. It will only help those with the right connections.
Plus: New York's rent control expansion has predictable effects, people are boycotting Uber again, and violence continues in Hong Kong.
For decades, the U.S. Postal Service has charged some countries less than it charges domestic shippers to move packages within the United States.
A report from the city's Department of Planning finds that housing construction has not kept pace with job growth.
Development restrictions and NIMBYism, not tech sector success, explain Silicon Valley's housing costs.
Opponents use a notorious environmental review law to keep a famed fast food restaurant out of Rancho Mirage.
The actor and comedian is the owner of a three-unit rental property in Chicago.
The state has made it exceedingly difficult to build in fire-safe cities, while also making insurance rates in high-risk areas artificially cheap.
By one vote, the city's planning commission denied a business's request to stop a competing falafel shop from opening up down the block.
The source of the state's housing affordability problems are onerous government regulations and fees that artificially drive up the costs of housing.
Henry Hazlitt's insights were far more sophisticated than one modern critic thinks.
Why are so many people in Washington DC walking around wearing Walgreens gear all of a sudden?
This year, Mississippi and North Carolina both ditched a vague "good moral character" clause that kept occupational licensing out of reach for people with criminal records.
New York Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou is a plaintiff in a lawsuit to stop a Habitat for Humanity housing project.