California's Rent Control Initiative Goes Down in Flames
A related initiative preventing the state's most prolific rent control–supporting nonprofit from funding future initiatives is headed for a narrow victory.
A related initiative preventing the state's most prolific rent control–supporting nonprofit from funding future initiatives is headed for a narrow victory.
California would benefit from building more housing and having more experimentation with how public services are delivered.
Majorities of Americans want casting a ballot to be easy and secure.
Proposition 33 would repeal all of California's state-level limits on rent control. It's passage could prove to be a disaster for housing supply in the Golden State.
In the heart of California Wine Country, rigid local rules are choking small businesses and stifling growth
The state's powerful coastal land-use regulator is arguing its awesome development-stopping powers applies to rocket launches as well as housing.
Urban renewal efforts should recognize that existing businesses and new residents can coexist.
Advocates unconvincingly argue that repealing California's limits on rent control will open up more housing for people with disabilities.
A free market for housing is one that benefits both renters and landlords.
Journalists should be interested in interrogating this contradiction, should the 2024 presidential candidate continue giving interviews.
Progressives are trying to fix the errors of the past, but they're ignoring the best solution: More robust property rights.
A federal judge ruled that the law was overbroad and violated the First Amendment.
The new law should help licensed retailers compete with the black market while mitigating the odor that offends Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.
Plus: the transformation of California's builder's remedy, the zoning reform implications of the Eric Adams indictment, and why the military killed starter home reform in Arizona.
Conservatives blame Proposition 47 (2014) for higher rates of shoplifting in the state, but the real story is more complicated.
He returned S.B. 961 to the California Senate for all the wrong reasons.
Plus, a look at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Tina Smith's plan to resurrect public housing in America.
Politicians are always trying to control what they can't understand.
The wordy label makes no mention of the environmental agenda driving the bill’s passage.
Unions and other special interests seem to get what they want before many urban residents get basic services.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been dogged by accusations that it operates dangerous, dilapidated housing. Now, it'll distribute taxpayer dollars to tenant groups fighting for better living conditions.
Plus: The Montana Supreme Court rescues zoning reform, and a new challenge to inclusionary zoning.
The ruling says some restrictions on guns in "sensitive places" are constitutionally dubious but upholds several others.
Newsom's "emergency" rules banning all THC in hemp products doesn't square with his insistence that his state provides more freedom than Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Drivers in the state narrowly avoided an even harsher restriction on their automotive freedom.
From overspending to the state's overly powerful unions, California keeps sticking to the taxpayer.
The city of Seaside, California, ordered a man to cover the boat parked in his driveway. He offered a lesson in malicious compliance.
Plus: The feds come for RealPage, a YIMBY caucus comes to Congress, and tiny Rhode Island enacts a big slate of housing reforms.
If you want to drink alcohol in California after 2 a.m., it helps to be the billionaire owner of the L.A. Clippers.
Gas prices in California are exceptionally high because of the state's high taxes and anti-oil regulations, not because gas station owners there are greedier.
There would seem to be little added fairness, and little added incentive for illegal immigration, in letting more people draw from a well that's already run dry.
We can't stop technological advancement, but we should limit government misuse of it.
The bill could have unintended consequences that reach far beyond California, affecting the entire nation.
Desperate to control soaring rents, the city council bans rental data tools while ignoring its own role in the housing crisis.
The bill’s sweeping regulations could leave developers navigating a legal minefield and potentially halt progress in its tracks.
The First Amendment case about a first-grader’s free speech rights is headed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
The state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that ridesharing drivers can be exempted from California's crackdown on independent contracting.
Plus: Kamala Harris doubles down on rent control, Gavin Newsom issues a new executive order on housing, and the natural tendency to keep adding more regulation.
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