With the help of New York’s environmental review law, local NIMBYs halted an approved housing project, adding to delays and costs in a city facing a housing shortage.
Golden State voters decisively rejected progressive approaches to crime and housing.
A related initiative preventing the state's most prolific rent control–supporting nonprofit from funding future initiatives is headed for a narrow victory.
In this Texas Law Review article, Josh Braver and I argue that most exclusionary zoning violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Proposition 33 would repeal all of California's state-level limits on rent control. It's passage could prove to be a disaster for housing supply in the Golden State.
The state's powerful coastal land-use regulator is arguing its awesome development-stopping powers applies to rocket launches as well as housing.
Urban renewal efforts should recognize that existing businesses and new residents can coexist.
Despite homelessness being on the rise, local governments keep cracking down on efforts to shelter those without permanent housing.
Instead of focusing on the ways a rollback of zoning laws could lower housing costs for everyone, Vance wants to zealously enforce zoning codes to keep Haitians out of town.
Harris rightly calls out regulations for causing the housing shortage, but she also supports rent control policies that will make it worse.
Plus: the transformation of California's builder's remedy, the zoning reform implications of the Eric Adams indictment, and why the military killed starter home reform in Arizona.
The ruling highlights need for state-level zoning reform and stronger judicial protection of constitutional property rights.
Revised versions of both publications are now up on SSRN.
Francis Ford Coppola's clumsy passion project is an ambitious misfire.
The New York City Council takes up the mayor's City of Yes for Housing Opportunity reform package the same day Adams is indicted on federal corruption charges.
It provides an overview of several major issues in land-use policy.
Increasing the supply of housing requires looser rules and fewer bureaucratic delays.
Plus: An alleged slumlord gets a "tenant empowerment" grant, Seattle's affordable housing mandates lead to less housing, D.C.'s affordable housing crisis.
Bobby Debelak, new host of this podcast, interviewed me about a variety of topics related to eminent domain and property rights.
New data shows that "housing supply skeptics" can be persuaded by evidence showing that allowing more construction reduces prices. But not clear this is a good road map for addressing the problem of public ignorance in the real world.
Plus: The Montana Supreme Court rescues zoning reform, and a new challenge to inclusionary zoning.
The city of Seaside, California, ordered a man to cover the boat parked in his driveway. He offered a lesson in malicious compliance.
Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, a leading expert on housing policy, offers some ideas on how Congress can use conditional spending to break down barriers to housing construction.
Plus: The feds come for RealPage, a YIMBY caucus comes to Congress, and tiny Rhode Island enacts a big slate of housing reforms.
Labor Day is the right time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet, both within countries and through international migration.
Kamala Harris' promise to end the housing shortage and adopt rent control shows that YIMBY ideas are just one of several competing housing policy agendas within the Democratic Party.
Economist Tyler Cowen argues the answer is "yes." But much depends on what kind of mobility we're talking about.
Walz is wrong to attack Vance for leaving home to go to Yale. Vance is wrong to support policies that would close off similar opportunities to others.
Plus: An appeals court sides with property owners seeking compensation for the CDC's eviction ban, a Michigan court backs the would-be builders of a "green cemetery," and Kamala Harris' spotty supply-side credentials.
The Minnesota governor is being hailed as a YIMBY zoning reformer despite doing nothing of consequence on the issue.
The company needs a lot of government permission slips to build its planned new city in the Bay Area. It's now changing the order in which it asks for them.
Plus: Gainesville shrinks minimum lot sizes, a Colorado church can keep providing shelter to the homeless, and Berkeley considers allowing small apartments everywhere.
Many states have enacted laws curbing exclusionary zoning and other regulations that block new housing construction.
The Church of the Rock is suing, arguing that the zoning crackdown in Castle Rock violates the First Amendment.
Vineyard owners face $120,000 in fines for letting an employee and his family live on their 60-acre property without a permit.
How do the two major party candidates stack up on housing policy?
The town of Lakeland will have to refund Julie Pereira $688 in fines and fees and pay her $1 in nominal damages for violating her First Amendment rights.
Costner stars, directs, and writes in what amounts to a three-hour prologue for a better movie.
The media, state attorneys general, and the Biden administration are blaming rent-recommendation software for rising rents. Normal stories of supply and demand are the more reasonable explanation.
There is a growing movement to let churches and other religious organizations build housing on their property that would otherwise be banned by zoning regulations.
Plus: unpermitted ADUs in San Jose, Sen. J.D. Vance's mass deportation plan for housing affordability, and the California Coastal Commission's anti-housing record.
It is coauthored with Josh Braver.
Plus: Sen. John Fetterman introduces a new zoning reform bill, U.C. Berkeley finally beats the NIMBYs in court, and Austin's unwise "equity overlay."
Recent studies diverge on the extent to which public opinion backs policies that would deregulate housing construction. YIMBYs would do well to learn from both.
A guest post on economist Bryan Caplan's Bet On It substack.
Plus: An interview with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis about the state's blockbuster year for housing reform.
Moving is no longer a viable way to grow your wealth in the U.S., says the author of Build, Baby, Build.
