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.
The Department of Justice is now intervening on behalf of the Orange County, California, group's right to distribute food at its resource center in Santa Ana.
The legislation would give property owners "sole discretion" in deciding how many parking spaces they want to build.
Unliking zoning, private communities respect property rights, and do not create major barriers to people seeking to "vote with their feet" for a better community.
The article explains why libertarians should focus much more on constitutional issues arising from zoning, immigration restrictions and racial profiling.
Each state has different cottage food laws that don’t actually protect public health and safety.
Montana's sweeping new zoning reform is both good in itself and a potential model for cross-ideological cooperation on this issue elsewhere.
A new Pew Charitable Trusts study examining jurisdictions with that reformed zoning finds far lower rent increases there than elsewhere.
Activists who would like to see more housing built and people who build housing for a living would seem to be natural allies. A new bill in the California Legislature is driving them apart.
Today, the Lone Star state counts 90 homeless people per every 100,000 residents. In California, the problem is almost five times as bad.
Annual inflation fell to 5 percent in March, the lowest mark in two years.
Harvard economist Edward Glaeser describes a dangerous trend. But a cross-ideological tide of reform might help reverse it.
If a municipality fails to approve or deny a permit by state-set deadlines, developers could hire private third parties to get the job done.
Arlington's successful passage of a modest missing middle housing reform bill after an intense debate raises the question of whether YIMBY politics can practically fix the problems it sets out to address.
The new law would allow developers to build housing on commercially zoned lots provided they include affordable units.
Restricting foreign real estate ownership has something for both sides—conservatives don't like foreigners, and progressives don't like capital.
In Caroline, New York, officials are trying to impose the city's first zoning code. These residents won't have it.
The new policy isn't ideal. But it's an important deregulatory step in the right direction, making it easier to build new housing in response to growing demand.
Land use policies explain the battles over everything from the Great Recession to abortion to Donald Trump.
It argues for increasing the number of cases in the Supreme Court's "Hall of Shame" and proposes three worthy additions.
A new report illustrates that the middle of the housing market is still missing.
Yet another court decision stopping a U.C. Berkeley housing project is getting California's policy makers to think bigger about reforming the infamous California Environmental Quality Act.
Lawmakers are considering giving state officials the ability to rewrite NIMBY cities' restrictive zoning codes.
Do you care about free minds and free markets? Sign up to get the biggest stories from Reason in your inbox every afternoon.
This modal will close in 10
