Elizabeth Warren Wants to Make Your Life More Annoying and More Expensive
The Massachusetts Democrat is running for president, but sometimes it seems like she's running for America's super-CEO.
The Massachusetts Democrat is running for president, but sometimes it seems like she's running for America's super-CEO.
Oregon's new rent control law won't deliver on its promises.
The senator's own San Francisco is a case study in the policy's poor consequences.
New proposal from Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Elizabeth Warren would stop states from using the dumbest of all reasons to keep someone out of work.
Former BB&T Bank CEO John Allison vs. Moody's Mark Zandi
The bill comes with new risks for tenants and property owners alike.
A win for private property rights, and a defeat for proponents of eminent domain.
The court concluded that property may only be condemned for projects that will proceed in "the reasonably foreseeable future."
A new poll shows 74 percent of San Francisco residents are in favor of a state bill that would peel back local restrictions on housing.
Licensing laws tend to lock workers in place, but Gov. Doug Ducey says it's time to stop that foolishness.
But she provided very little evidence to back up her claims.
Occupational licensing programs deprive people of livelihoods and often don't improve public health.
A conservative technocrat tries to engineer a better world.
All three Senate Democrats running for president have distinctive housing reform proposals.
How much power does the state of California have to force NIMBY localities to build more housing?
The Competitive Enterprise Institute says there's a bunch of regulatory warning signs, from trade to antitrust to speech.
How a heavily subsidized Culver City development became the nation's most expensive affordable housing project.
The Manhattan Institute's Howard Husock debates Economic Policy Institute's Richard Rothstein at the Soho Forum.
The op ed explains why this option is not legal - and why it would set a dangerous precedent if the president succeeded in doing it.
It's time to remedy the effects of that terrible policy.
The op ed describes the extensive harm likely to be caused by condemning the large amounts of private property that would need to be seized to build the wall.
Some members of Congress still care about private property.
And that will probably make housing less affordable, not more.
City officials determined years ago that the home was of no historic value.
State lawmakers target pet groomers, drain cleaners, interior designers, pecan buyers, athletic trainers, antler dealers, and....art therapists?
Two unions called out for threats to sue if they don't get hired to build.
A new law in Ohio and an executive order in Idaho require state lawmakers to take a more active role in overseeing occupational licensing boards.
The bill would likely stop Trump from using the "military version of eminent domain."
NYC's mayor takes on private property (again).
The op ed was published yesterday in the New York Daily News, but may be even more relevant today.
The Hong Kong government has floated the idea of building four artificial islands which could house one million people.
Can Trump really exploit emergency powers to use eminent domain to build his wall without additional congressional authorization? If he succeeds, conservatives are likely to regret the precedent he sets.
The President's recent threat to use "the military version of eminent domain" to seize property for his border wall is just the tip of a larger iceberg of policies and legal positions inimical to constitutional property rights.
Whatever it is, it can't be good.
The swashbuckling Southwest Airlines honcho is dead at 87.
Raw counts of new rules added or pages in the Federal Register are a poor measure of deregulatory efforts.
Even if the Oregon Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying disagrees.
The next Reason/Soho Forum, in New York on January 14, pits Richard Rothstein vs. Howard Husock on how to correct a historic wrong.
The HUD secretary's desire to tackle restrictive zoning is encouraging, but real reform will have to come from the bottom up.
Bob Tillman has spent nearly 5 years and $1.4 million trying to convert his laundromat into new housing.
Facebook, Google, Apple, and others are now facing the sort of regulatory and antitrust animus once leveled at Bill Gates' company.
Reforms in multiple jurisdictions could help loosen restrictions on development that infringe on property rights, inflate housing prices, and cut off large numbers of people from job opportunities.
Cities and states are embracing bold housing reforms as the year ends.
The 1930s building must be rebuilt exactly as it was, save for a plaque explaining the details of its demolition.