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.
Plus: Libertarianism in the 2020s, Trump's flavored vape ban, and more...
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.
Plus: the effects of restrictive zoning on education access, DACA's uncertain future at the Supreme Court, and Mayor Pete's miraculous surge
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.
California's progressive political imperatives are having such glaring real-world repercussions that it's hard to keep ignoring them.
The case is a bizarre example of occupational licensing woes and backward regulations.
Los Angeles is spending $600,000 per unit on building affordable and supportive housing for homeless residents.
A new study of inclusionary zoning policies in the D.C. and Baltimore metro areas finds that the policy ends up raising rents.
A Davidson County judge ruled Tuesday that Nashville's ban on home businesses servicing clients on site is constitutional.
Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter are in the federal government's crosshairs, but the technology necessary to undermine their dominance may already exist.
California is about to get a real world lesson in how rent control laws can't solve a housing crisis.
The wish-fulfillment machine kicks into high gear on both sides of the aisle.
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