The National Apartment Association has joined a lawsuit brought by four individual landlords arguing the CDC's nationwide eviction moratorium is both illegal and unconstitutional.
House Bill 1193 loosened or abolished rules governing more than 30 different professions.
What's next for SCOTUS?
Removing single-family zoning will not dismantle the suburbs, but it will dismantle the ability of NIMBYs to use the government to control other people's property.
In an op ed coauthored with former Colorado state supreme court justice Rebecca Love Kourlis, he outlines some ways to make legal services more affordable for the poor and lower middle class.
Sadly, he's far from the only one. If we want to "break the wheel" of poverty and housing shortages, we need to roll back zoning.
The Santa Fe Historic Districts Review Board refused to grant an exception to its height limits to accommodate a seven-sided keep.
A new lawsuit argues that the city and state's eviction bans are an unconstitutional impairment of contracts unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Trump administration's new nationwide eviction moratorium provokes a backlash from some congressional Republicans.
It's a power grab that could undermine federalism and separation of powers, and imperil property rights.
The Trump administration is pushing the envelope of its executive authority by issuing a new blanket eviction moratorium for all rental properties nationwide.
Harsh occupational license rules locked them out, except when they were locked up. A new bill just passed to change the rules.
City officials repeatedly gave activists false information about the requirements for getting their initiative on the ballot.
The typecasting of builders as villains might help explain why NIMBYs so often win the policy battles over urban growth and development.
Patients and providers should be able to meet remotely without bureaucrats getting in the way.
The Trump administration has abandoned its own promising housing reforms in favor of toxic culture war politics.
Plus: Good news on COVID-19 immunity, court nixes California ammunition ban, and more...
Plus: California Judicial Council sets expiration date for eviction moratorium, the U.S Justice Department accuses Yale of discriminating against whites and Asians, relations thaw between Israel and the UAE, and more...
Tennessee's requirement that barbers have at least a high school education is "unconstitutional, unlawful, and unenforceable," ruled the state's Chancery Court.
Officials claim doing business is a revocable “privilege,” but many Americans see it as a right that they’ll exercise with or without licenses and permits.
This isn't a debate about consumer needs. It's all about political control.
Licensing laws can be weaponized to chill speech.
Plus: Trump suggests election delay, and more...
The scary monopoly power on display Wednesday was the federal government's.
NIMBYism comes in many different ideological stripes. Fewer homes and higher rents is always the result.
The Covid pandemic strengthens the case for abolishing a requirement that should never have been imposed in the first place.
"I think you might be referring to what happened on Twitter."
The president has ditched a promising, free market-influenced revamp of Obama-era fair housing regulations in favor of a legally dubious new rule that's heavy on local control.
Officials in Oakland County, Michigan, are worried they could be on the hook for more than $30 million in payments to former homeowners victimized by an aggressive forfeiture scheme.
The Bedrooms Are For People campaign would repeal the city's existing limits on unrelated people living in the same house.
Democrats in Congress are floating plans for billions more in rental assistance, and a blanket nationwide moratorium on evictions to forestall a potential housing crisis during the pandemic.
The switch threatens an initiative to repeal Boulder's restrictions on unrelated people living together.
As a state attorney, the young GOP senator oversaw raids of more than a dozen massage parlors, but he didn’t secure a single sex trafficking conviction.
Nashville's Metro Council repeals the city's blanket ban on home businesses servicing customers onsite.
Government growth and abuses are not challenged nearly enough.
Finding a steady job is the best way to keep a person from going back to prison or jail. These changes make a lot of sense.
How invasive questions about a stone patio permit turned into a Black Lives Matter protest
Stanford epidemiological model predicts self-flattening while MIT forecasts continued epidemic growth.
The president's criticism of the 2015 AFFH rule is an implicit attack on his own housing reforms.
The Occupational Freedom and Opportunity Act "will save thousands of Floridians both time and money for years to come," says Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The 4-2 ruling is reminiscent of the federal Supreme Court's dubious decision in Kelo v. City of New London, which also upheld a condemnation for a project that turned out to be a dud.
Making a living is a right, not a privilege, and should be respected as such.
What started as a largely uncontroversial emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic has now become subject of intense legal and policy battles.
The Institute for Justice fights for the right to receive paid training as a farrier without a high school diploma or equivalent.
The decision distinguishes US Supreme Court cases allowing the government to transfer property from one private party to another for almost any "public purpose."
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