Zoning Versus the Good Samaritan. Again.
Plus: New York refreshes rent control, AOC and Bernie Sanders call for more, greener public housing, and California's "builder's remedy" wins big in court.
Plus: New York refreshes rent control, AOC and Bernie Sanders call for more, greener public housing, and California's "builder's remedy" wins big in court.
Plus: A listener asks about the absurdity of Social Security entitlements.
If you fail to see a problem with Apple's actions, you may not be an overzealous government lawyer.
In Fragile Neighborhoods, author Seth Kaplan applies his Fixing Fragile States observations domestically.
All too often, admission is only open to students whose families can afford a home inside the districts’ boundaries or pay transfer student tuition.
The market offers many alternatives to bad desserts. We don’t need the FDA to step in.
Plus: Squatters, Julian Assange, teen babysitters, Hong Kong migration, and more...
Economic nationalists are claiming the deal endangers "national security" to convince Americans that a good deal for investors, employees, and the U.S. economy will somehow make America less secure. That's nonsense.
Plus: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is fooled by TikTok housing falsehoods, Austin building boom cuts prices, and Sacramento does the socialist version of "homeless homesteading."
The New York Times and the Atlantic report on how the movement to curb exclusionary zoning and build more housing has managed to cut across ideological lines.
Some Democrats want to mimic Europe's policies on phone chargers and more.
They are to be commended. But other property owners should also be freed of exclusionary zoning.
The president who vowed to cut government spending rescinds the 48 percent pay raise he gave himself.
The Colorado governor talks about live housing reforms in the state legislature, the federal role in housing policy, and whether we should abolish zoning completely.
The president wants to raise the rate from 21 percent to 28 percent, despite it being well-established that this is the most economically-destructive method to raise government funds.
Prominent political commentator and zoning reform advocate comments on my work on this topic (with Joshua Braver).
New immigration pathways are letting private citizens welcome refugees and other migrants—and getting the government out of the way.
Plus: Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs dithers over whether to veto bipartisan Starter Homes bill, Biden says "build, build, build," and Massachusetts sues anti-apartment suburb.
Teaneck already had tensions over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A real estate sale caused it to snap.
New immigration pathways are letting private citizens welcome refugees and other migrants—and getting the government out of the way.
Kristy Kay Money and Rolf Jacob Sraubhaar are now suing the city of San Marcos, Texas, saying they're being forced to keep a Klan-linked symbol on the front of their house is a physical taking.
Plus: Illegal immigrants at Whole Foods, AI predicting homelessness, Chinese espionage, and more...
The project might determine whether new generations will be able to take part in the American Dream.
The president's laundry list of proposed tax credits would likely make the problem of high housing costs worse.
New Jersey fishermen are challenging a 40-year-old precedent that gives executive agencies too much power.
In California, which has a slew of renewable energy regulations, the cost of electricity increased three times faster than in the rest of the U.S.—and the state still doesn't even get reliable energy.
Plus: An interview with Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, Minnesota lawmakers try to save Minneapolis zoning reform from excess environmental review, and the White House's new housing supply action plan.
"It is immoral that in a poor country like ours," the Argentine president said, "the government spends the people's money to buy the will of journalists."
Salina, Kansas, restaurant owner Steve Howard argues in a new lawsuit that the city's sign regulations violate the First Amendment.
Despite the popular narrative, Millennials have dramatically more wealth than Gen Xers had at the same age, and incomes continue to grow with each new generation.
Plus: The man who would build an ADU, the zoning theory of child care, and tiny home red tape in Hawaii.
Plus: Migrant resettlement, Tom Cotton op-ed scandal, oppressors-in-training, and more...
The market has created a lot of dog-free housing for a reason. A bill from Assemblymember Matt Haney would destroy it.
The policy is a true budget buster and is ineffective in the long term.
Former Rep. Justin Amash says "the idea of introducing impeachment legislation suggests there's other people who will join you. Otherwise, it's just an exercise in futility."
It's part of the government's expensive public-private partnership meant to address concerns over a reliance on foreign countries, like China, for semiconductors.
Bureaucratic ineptitude leads to waste—and more people on the streets.
The difficulties some cities are experiencing arise because many migrants aren't allowed to work, and because of restrictions on construction of new housing.
Thomas agreed with the Court's decision to not take up two challenges to New York's rent stabilization law but said the constitutionality of rent control "is an important and pressing question."
Plus: Voters in Massachusetts reject state-mandated upzonings, Florida localities rebel against a surprisingly effective YIMBY reform, and lawsuits target missing middle housing in Virginia.
Coauthor Josh Braver and I argue exclusionary zoning violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
The president criticized companies for selling "smaller-than-usual products" whose "price stays the same." But it was his and his predecessor's spending policies that caused the underlying issue.
Plus: rent control behind financial problems at NYCB, public housing's corruption problem, and New York City's near-zero vacancy rate.
Plus: RFK Jr.'s Super Bowl ad, New York's war on Airbnbs, Biden's TikToks, and more...
The Biden administration's interference with bookselling harks back to a 1963 Supreme Court case involving literature that Rhode Island deemed dangerous.
Plus: the House votes for more affordable housing subsidies, Portland tries to fix its "inclusionary housing" program, and is 2024 the year of the granny flat?
It mixes much-needed reform with changes that could upend the asylum system in damaging ways.