New Orleans Nixes Plan for Strict Cap on French Quarter Strip Clubs
"There is nothing inherent" to strip clubs "that causes crime," say city planners.
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Cato Unbound Symposium on "The Captured Economy"
The symposium focuses on Brink Lindsey and Steve Teles' important new book describing how several forms of government regulation slow economic growth, increase inequality, and reduce opportunities for the poor.
Florida Couple Fined $50 Per Day for 'Illegal' Treehouse on Their Own Property
Cited for building the treehouse without a proper permit, the family must now file for permits to tear it down.
California Bill Cutting Back Zoning Could Increase Access to Housing and Jobs for Millions
By greatly reducing zoning restrictions on housing construction, Bill 827 could massively expand opportunity for large numbers of people.
Seattle Bans Landlords From Screening "Qualified" Tenants
The city's goal is to curb "unconscious bias." But the policy is based on dangerous premises, and is likely to harm tenants more than it benefits them.
Florida Appeals Court Upholds City's Veggie-Garden Ban
A court says a city can squash your property rights because it thinks vegetables are ugly.
Wisconsin Lawmakers Pass Bill to Protect Property Rights, Reverse Supreme Court Decision
The U.S. Supreme Court said local regulators could treat two lots owned by the same family as if they were a single parcel. A new law aims to stop that.
Chicago Alderman Who Told Businessman to 'Come Back To Me On Your Knees' Sued for Abuse of Power
Brian Strauss sues to protect his property rights.
Government Created the Housing Crisis. Government Can Solve It.
Suggestions from a New York real estate attorney
Houston's Anarchic Zoning Laws are an Affront to Sim City
They just build whatever they want, wherever they want, like a bunch of savages.
The Media Keep Saying Houston's Development Caused It to Flood
An engineer explains why that's wrong.
No, Flooding in Houston Was Not Caused By a Lack of Zoning Laws
The "development kills" crowd has failed to take into account the very creation of Houston and its long and colorful history of being underwater.
Zoning Laws in New York, San Francisco, and San Jose Cut Americans' Wages by $8,775
And they've made the U.S. economy 9 percent smaller than it would it otherwise be.
Local Officials Are Coming for Your Garden
Local regulatory busybodies are zoning away your right to grow food in your garden.
When the Hotel Industry Places a Hit on Airbnb, Politicians Happily Take the Contract
Government is a weapon old industries use to squeeze out entrepreneurs.
Why Aren't More Americans Moving?
People used to chase economic opportunity across the country. Then the government got in the way.
More Americans Are Stuck In Place: New at Reason
Unintended consequences of local and state policies are a huge barrier to mobility.
Cops Say They Bust Prostitution Because It's Easier Than Catching Career Criminals
The arrests are also part of plan to force shut affordable motels to make way for high-density apartment buildings.
Appeals Court Says the Second Amendment Protects Firearm Sales
The 9th Circuit reinstates a challenge to a California ordinance that blocked a gun store.
Topless Dancing and Alcohol Sales May Meet Again in Chicago
"Put a G-string on" and let the topless, drunken good times roll suggest some on the Chicago City Council.
Anaheim Targets People Using Homes as Short-Term Rentals
Defender of property rights finds himself on the opposite side.
Marijuana: From Societal Scourge to Small Town Salvation?
This California city wants to change its reputation from prison community to legal pot manufacturer.
'The poor are better off when we build more housing for the rich,' reports Washington Post
Says the notion that expanding the housing market benefits both poor and rich sounds "counterintuitive"
Folk Artists vs. the State
Truckhenge, Bishop Castle, the Garden of Eden, and the anti-authoritarianism of outsider art
Zoning and Zen
How regulations and charges of "cultural appropriation" destroyed a widow's small business dream
[Updated] State Agents Investigate Yoga Instructor Because She Was Accused of Giving Bird Feathers to Kids
Cultural appropriation: a crime against nature.
LA Renters Rat Out Airbnb Users, Get Evicted Instead
Surprise: A bureaucracy powerful enough to evict your neighbors for no good reason can do the same to you.
How Zoning Laws & Charges of 'Cultural Appropriation' Shut Down a Widow's Yoga Business
Manatee County, Florida, won't let Renee Bierbaum teach yoga and meditation in her own backyard.
Are Short-Term Rentals a Big Worry?
There's always a cat-and-mouse game between innovators and regulators
Should This Purple Playground Structure Result in Jail Time?
Missouri parents are squaring off against their homeowners association.
Stomping on Free Speech in Virginia
Local officials in Buchanan, and elsewhere, use regulations to shut their critics, and victims, up.
DC's First Cat Cafe Opens (No Thanks to Regulators)
How a cat-loving entrepreneur brought kittens and caffeine to the nation's capital
A Swingers Club Is Rebranded a Church To Evade Local Busybodies
"It will have the same rules that many churches observe" except adultery is OK.
A Swingers Club Is Rebranded a Church To Evade Local Busybodies
"It will have the same rules that many churches observe" except adultery is OK.
Sex Club Rebrands as Church to Thwart Nashville Zoning Laws
Do not deliver us, oh Lord, from temptation...
'A World-Class City Like Chicago' Needs Topless Strippers, Says Alderman
Measure would allow licensed "cabarets" to offer both alcohol and topless dancing.
Good Samaritans Warned: Stop Giving Away Free Things or Face $1,000 Fine
Altruism can be such an eyesore, complain neighbors.
Washington's Beautiful, Illegal Tiny Houses
Architectural minimalism runs afoul of outdated regulations in the nation's capital.
