Plus: Austin and Salt Lake City pass very different "middle housing" reforms, Democrats in Congress want to ban hedge fund–owned rental housing, and a look at GOP presidential candidate's housing policy positions.
Plus: the U.S. Justice Department says zoning restrictions on a church's soup kitchen are likely illegal, more cities pass middle housing reforms, and California gears up for another rent control fight.
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Economist Brian Greaney may have found serious methodological errors in a much-cited 2019 article by Enrico Moretti and Chang-Tai Hsieh.
Some progressives want to remove bureaucratic obstacles to growth—in the service of Democrats and big government.
Some progressives want to remove bureaucratic obstacles to growth—in the service of Democrats and big government.
"Land use restrictions are constricting the supply of housing," said Ramaswamy at tonight's GOP presidential debate in Miami.
Pro-zoning candidates in Caroline, New York, won the elections for town supervisor and three seats on the town board.
The Democrat-controlled Senate meanwhile is proposing to expand the program.
The comedian blames America's endless reams of regulatory red tape for slowing down new wind farms, housing, and public toilets.
The state housing officials who performed the audit describe San Francisco's approval process as a "notoriously complex and cumbersome" mess.
Missing middle housing reforms are getting more popular. But they're not getting much more productive.
Cities are asking for federal zoning-reform dollars to pay for plans that might never pass.
Federal and New York City officials recently adopted policy changes on migrant work permits and zoning reform similar to those advocated here (though probably not because I advocated them!)..
A new report details how the city's famed social housing system is suffering from diminishing affordability, deteriorating quality, and funding shortfalls.
In the face of lawsuits and accusations of attempted "genocide," Green is restoring many homebuilding regulations he suspended in July.
The state legislature recently passed significant new laws constraining exclusionary zoning, thereby making it easier for property owners to build much-needed new housing on their land.
Two bills approved by the Legislature this week will make it easier to build affordable housing on church land and in coastal areas.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to name America's unsung or undersung heroes.
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.
Nigeria's shantytowns are more functional than its centrally planned gated communities.
"Colorado resort town in which snowball fights are illegal"
An emergency proclamation by Gov. Josh Green offers developers the opportunity to route around almost all regulations on building homes.
Can Caroline, New York, resist the imposition of its first-ever zoning code?
It's the predictable result of the combination of federal regulations barring asylum seekers from working legally and local policies offering free housing, while severely restricting new housing construction.
S.B. 423 would prevent the state's powerful Coastal Commission from shooting down affordable housing projects that comply with local zoning laws.
Eli Kahn and Salim Furth provide overview of developments in the states, and lessons that can be learned.
Policy analyst Justin Hayes summarizes the reasons why conservatives, progressives, and libertarians all have reason to support zoning reform.
Instead, try making it easier to build more housing!
A town clamps down on distributing clothes, personal care items, and food to the homeless.
Achieving this goal will require a lot more than banning racial preferences in college admissions. That includes some measures that will make the political right uncomfortable, as well as the left.
This is the second RAISE grant San Francisco has received since the Biden administration retooled the program to reward jurisdictions for adopting zoning reforms.
Proposed zoning amendments would bar some existing medical dispensaries from participating in recreational sales, should the state ever decide to legalize them.
Robert Poole's effort to defend exclusionary zoning falls prey to a combination of logical fallacies and factual error.
California recently enacted legislation that invalidates single-family zoning, as an effort to increase housing supply. Other alternatives would be wiser.
Often, it can be exactly the opposite.
Meanwhile, big, partisan "everything bagel" zoning reform bills that tried to squeeze through the entire YIMBY agenda floundered.
The state court of appeals held previously that unconstitutionally collected evidence could still be used for civil enforcement.
Publicly funded leagues of cities are fighting zoning reforms in state capitals across the country.
Leading expert on political ignorance and housing comments on evidence indicating that ignorance, not self-interest, is at the root of most opposition to zoning reform.
The Tyler home equity theft case is just the tip of a much larger iceberg of property rights issues where stronger judicial protection can protect the interests of the poor and minorities, as well as promote the federalist values of localism and diversity.
Cities become affordable when they build a lot of housing, not when they subsidize it.
British immigration policy expert Sunder Katwala and I discuss the debate over UK immigration policy, which has notable similarities and differences with that in the US.
Ellen Finnerty wanted to make and sell honey. The town of Ottawa, Kansas, says that's illegal.
Progressives like to argue that rent control policies that exempt new construction don't impact the construction of new housing.
The Texas Senate has passed two bills legalizing building homes on smaller lots and accessory dwelling units across the state.
