NIMBYs Stop Game of Thrones Author George R.R. Martin From Building the Castle of his Dreams
The Santa Fe Historic Districts Review Board refused to grant an exception to its height limits to accommodate a seven-sided keep.
The Santa Fe Historic Districts Review Board refused to grant an exception to its height limits to accommodate a seven-sided keep.
City officials repeatedly gave activists false information about the requirements for getting their initiative on the ballot.
The Trump administration has abandoned its own promising housing reforms in favor of toxic culture war politics.
The switch threatens an initiative to repeal Boulder's restrictions on unrelated people living together.
Nashville's Metro Council repeals the city's blanket ban on home businesses servicing customers onsite.
How invasive questions about a stone patio permit turned into a Black Lives Matter protest
The president's criticism of the 2015 AFFH rule is an implicit attack on his own housing reforms.
Joshua and Emily Killeen are suing Yavapai County, Arizona, for what they claim are unconstitutional restrictions on their ability to advertise their business and host events on their rural property.
The feds pushed cities to implement zoning restrictions. High prices and social inequality were the inevitable results.
Land use regulation is making cities unaffordable. In an unfettered market, how would Americans choose to live?
Fairfax County, Virginia, allows home businesses but prohibits them from keeping inventory on site.
Two non-profit groups argued that developers had been improperly awarded a building permit for a 112-unit condo building on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Three decades later, is it time for the city simulation game to get political?
Mayor London Breed's Affordable Homes Now initiative would streamline the approval of code-compliant housing projects as long as developers include additional affordable units.
Community planners don't have all the answers.
And it might make housing more affordable in many places. Conservative NIMBYs should not stand in the way.
Del. Vaughn Stewart (D–Montgomery County) says a mix of new private and public housing is needed to combat Maryland's housing affordability problems.
Despite amendments to make the bill more palatable to local governments and community activists, Sen. Scott Wiener's (D–San Francisco) SB 50 faces an uphill battle.
A massive 15 foot tall Trump/Pence yard sign has unfortunately turned political.
The legislation would allow duplexes on any residential plot in the state.
Many jurisdictions are alleviating housing shortgages by cutting back on zoning. Unfortunately, there is also a trend towards expanding rent control, which is likely to have the opposite effect.
Joey Mucha wanted to convert his warehouse into a restaurant, bar, and arcade. Then community activists intervened.
The decision leaves intact local governments’ power to force private developers to build affordable housing.
The initiative would leave untouched all the city regulations that've made it so hard to start a business in the first place.
The Homes for All Act misdiagnoses the roots of the country's housing problems, then adds a boundless faith in the feds' ability to solve them.
The struggles Joey Mucha had to go through to secure a simple change of use permit highlight the problems inherent in San Francisco's planning process.
Neighbors say Joey Mucha's plans for a Skee-Ball arcade in the Mission would be a positive addition to the community. Activists disagree.
Plus: the effects of restrictive zoning on education access, DACA's uncertain future at the Supreme Court, and Mayor Pete's miraculous surge
Development restrictions and NIMBYism, not tech sector success, explain Silicon Valley's housing costs.
Opponents use a notorious environmental review law to keep a famed fast food restaurant out of Rancho Mirage.
By one vote, the city's planning commission denied a business's request to stop a competing falafel shop from opening up down the block.
Los Angeles is spending $600,000 per unit on building affordable and supportive housing for homeless residents.
A new study of inclusionary zoning policies in the D.C. and Baltimore metro areas finds that the policy ends up raising rents.
A Davidson County judge ruled Tuesday that Nashville's ban on home businesses servicing clients on site is constitutional.
Local governments that remove development restrictions near transit would have a better chance of scoring federal transit funding grants.
The long shot presidential candidate wants booming cities to get rid of their restrictions on new development.
New Orleans can't use zoning regulations to decide what counts as artistic expression.
Local governments can't outlaw home vegetable gardens under a new Florida law.
State lawmakers end the legislative sessions by passing a bill that will allow for denser housing construction across the state.
Mainstream media is starting to embrace the idea of deregulating housing construction. Will policymakers?
"They want to put a bureaucratic noose around me," says Nancy Bass Wyden, third-generation owner of New York's best bookstore. "We're just asking to be left alone."
The seventh post in the Volokh Conspiracy symposium on "Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative" (ed. by Joshua Claybourn).
Proposed legislation aims to crack down on "McMansions."
Recent articles by Tyler Cowen and Farhad Manjoo highlight anti-immigrant effects of many Democrats' policies on zoning and other issues. The party is not quite as bad as the Republicans. But that's damning with faint praise.