Reforms in multiple jurisdictions could help loosen restrictions on development that infringe on property rights, inflate housing prices, and cut off large numbers of people from job opportunities.
Cities and states are embracing bold housing reforms as the year ends.
And there's nothing the town can do to stop him.
Urban liberals are won over to libertarian policies, if not libertarian politics.
Zoning rules that severely restrict home construction cut off millions of poor people from jobs and affordable housing. The Minneapolis reform is the most extensive reduction in zoning achieved by any major American city in a long time.
The fine is likely unconstitutional, and the city's strong-arm tactics were blocked by a judge this week.
Senate Bill 50 would override restrictive local zoning laws to allow more housing construction near transit.
Not only did Brian Esola make sure he wasn't violating the city code, he also checked with his neighbors beforehand.
The city's attempt to save the famed Showbox music venue has predictably resulted in a lawsuit.
Robert Tillman's attempts to build housing have been frustrated by an increasingly ridiculous set of objections.
The HUD Secretary wants to revise Obama-era housing regulations he says do too little to address the real drivers of housing costs.
He deserves credit for being one of the very few national politicians to focus on this enormous problem. If enacted, his proposal would be a step in the right direction, though it is likely to have only a modest impact.
Austin was part of a group murdered in Tajikistan.
Designed by famed architect Moshe Safdie, a planned Medal of Honor Museum is 75 feet too tall for local zoning codes.
The owner of a "historic" laundromat has been thwarted at every turn in his bid to build apartments in a city in the midst of a housing crisis.
Real estate investors worry a new construction tax will halt construction in an already-heavily taxed city.
A bill would stop the use of private lawyers to try to force residents to pay massive fees for minor crimes.
Over the next 30 years, Texas may overtake the Golden State because it is more welcoming to newcomers.
A DC law bars property owners from redeveloping land containing a full-service gas station, or removing them to make way for other uses.
A California bill that would have greatly liberalized zoning rules failed in the state legislature. The defeat has implications for the broader struggle to expand housing and job opportunities for the poor.
SB 827 would have opened up swaths of California's cities to new construction. Now it's dead.
ACLU steps in to fight zoning regulations that appear to let officials veto art based on content.
Troy Kashanipour's experience trying to erect a code-compliant home on his own property shows how stacked San Francisco's approval process is against builders.
Recent evidence suggests it actually reduces it.
Many of Judy Wu's tenants remain at risk of eviction.
"There is nothing inherent" to strip clubs "that causes crime," say city planners.
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.
Cited for building the treehouse without a proper permit, the family must now file for permits to tear it down.
By greatly reducing zoning restrictions on housing construction, Bill 827 could massively expand opportunity for large numbers of people.
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.
A court says a city can squash your property rights because it thinks vegetables are ugly.
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.
Brian Strauss sues to protect his property rights.
Suggestions from a New York real estate attorney
They just build whatever they want, wherever they want, like a bunch of savages.
An engineer explains why that's wrong.
The "development kills" crowd has failed to take into account the very creation of Houston and its long and colorful history of being underwater.
And they've made the U.S. economy 9 percent smaller than it would it otherwise be.
Local regulatory busybodies are zoning away your right to grow food in your garden.
Government is a weapon old industries use to squeeze out entrepreneurs.
People used to chase economic opportunity across the country. Then the government got in the way.
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