A new bill introduced by Council Member Ben Kallos would require landlords to provide broadband internet. It would also forbid them from passing on the costs of internet service to tenants.
The Prohibition-era three-tier system is causing consolidation, not the market.
A month after the Supreme Court struck down the CDC's eviction moratorium, eviction filings remain well below pre-pandemic averages.
You can finally set up a farm with crops and animals such as cows, llamas, and chickens—heedless of zoning rules!
"Maybe one billionaire with a penchant for destroying democracies shouldn’t be allowed to own so much of the internet," says the representative from New York.
The government confiscated Bruce's Beach at racists' behest.
The FTC challenged a licensing scheme that it says limited consumer choice and excluded new providers.
New bills passed earlier this week require landlords to give tenants 180 days' notice before raising rents and pay relocation expenses to low-income tenants who move in response to rent hikes.
The nonbinding ballot initiative encourages the city government to expropriate roughly 15 percent of the city's rental housing stock.
The case was the subject of a Supreme Court ruling in which the power of eminent domain prevailed over state sovereign immunity.
A pending cert petition challenges a Bloomington zoning ordinance that requires a landlord to evict a derecognized fraternity
The Reason senior editor argues that attempts to break up tech giants and rein in social media are based on flawed arguments.
And vacancy taxes won't make them affordable.
Second in a series of posts on historically awful Supreme Court decisions that deserve more opprobrium than they get.
Both Los Angeles and San Francisco struggle with restrictive land use regulations that raise the costs and completion times of housing projects. That same red tape is now hobbling projects aimed at helping alleviate homelessness.
The article explains how expanding opportunities for foot voting can enhance political choice, help the poor and disadvantaged, and reduce the dangers of political polarization.
Court dismisses Ice Cube's trademark lawsuit over Robinhood's use of his image and of a version of his "Check you self before you wreck yo self" line.
Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 10 would make it easier to build new housing in much of the state.
Free speech and occupational licensing collide.
Convenient online sports betting is legal and live in 14 states.
A bill intended to make America's housing stock more climate-resilient also includes a big effective subsidy for the properties most exposed to the risks of climate change.
Growing evidence confirms that barriers to immigration make us all worse off.
"I have my First Amendment rights," says Hank Robar.
Whether a local burrito chain will be able to open another restaurant in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood could hinge on the precise name of the new location.
Labor Day is a good time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet.
Los Angeles temporarily eased parking requirements during the pandemic, offering a glimpse of how much a less restrictive zoning code improves urban life.
Apparently, some conservatives support freedom and property rights, but not when it affects their neighborhoods or intrudes on their personal preferences.
Both liberals and conservatives could take some lessons from the U.S. State Department's list of cities that it recommends Afghan refugees relocate to.
California activists have proposed a ballot initiative that would effectively strip the state government of the ability to regulate land use.
Legislators advance bills that would allow duplexes statewide and make it easier for local governments to legalize small apartment buildings.
The number of people spending more than 90 minutes getting to work has grown 45 percent over the past decade, according to a new study.
Plus: Biden won't budge on Afghanistan, bad news for psychedelics measure in California, and more...
This outcome was widely expected by legal commentators.
Horror filmmaking has always been political, but the new Candyman takes it to a different level.
"Government should be very small. It should just regulate the minimum."
The Michigan congresswoman is a co-sponsor of a bill that would suspend all tenants' obligation to pay rent through April 2022.
ASU loses, even though the defendant “stopped participating in this action after his answer was stricken” “for litigation misconduct”: “[A]a reasonably prudent consumer would not be deceived or confused into believing that ASU was the ‘source or origin’ of the posts and messages emanating from the ‘asu_covid.parties.’”
Interviewer Joe Selvaggi and I explore the constitutional and policy issues at stake.
The ID overhaul, presented as a national security safeguard more than 15 years ago, still hasn't been fully implemented.
Setting aside the harassment claims and the nursing home debacle, the Cuomo administration’s inability to run a minimally functional rent relief program should forever end his reputation as a competent executive.
Jigisha Modi can't hire her own mother-in-law—who has decades of eyebrow-threading experience—because of Kansas' occupational licensing rules. Now she's suing.
The new eviction moratorium applies to the 90 percent of counties in the U.S. where the spread of COVID-19 is "substantial" or "high."
Thanks to the Supreme Court's decision in the Cedar Point case, this suit has much better odds of success than previous takings challenges to eviction moratoria.
It still covers some 90% of the country, and still rests on a theory of virtually limitless CDC authority. Even President Biden acknowledges the order is legally dubious.
An onslaught of antitrust and data-security crackdowns have threatened the country's biggest ride-sharing platforms, cryptocurrency exchanges, and messaging services.
Do we really need the state to step in over an unfortunate tragedy?
