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Housing Policy

Trump Appeals to Progressive Voters With Promise To Defend Suburbs Against New Housing Development

NIMBYism comes in many different ideological stripes. Fewer homes and higher rents is always the result.

Christian Britschgi | 7.29.2020 4:30 PM

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Affordable Housing

Trump's New Fair Housing Rule Prioritizes Toxic Culture War Politics Over Deregulation

The president has ditched a promising, free market-influenced revamp of Obama-era fair housing regulations in favor of a legally dubious new rule that's heavy on local control.

Christian Britschgi | 7.25.2020 9:00 AM

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Coronavirus

Landlords Are Suing To Overturn State Eviction Moratoriums. State Legislators Want To Extend and Expand Them.

What started as a largely uncontroversial emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic has now become subject of intense legal and policy battles.

Christian Britschgi | 6.17.2020 10:15 AM

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Regulation

Federal 'Fair Housing' Policy Set for a Major Overhaul 

The new rule would ask localities receiving federal funding to report on their housing market outcomes and propose concrete steps for improving affordability.

Christian Britschgi | 3.19.2020 6:00 AM

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Reason Roundup

Ben Carson's 'Oreo' Gaffe Highlights Acronym Madness at Federal Agencies

Plus: New York may ban 3D-printed guns and most Americans support Roe v. Wade.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.22.2019 9:30 AM

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Housing Policy

Government Caused Housing Segregation. Do We Need More Government to Fix the Problem?

The Manhattan Institute's Howard Husock debates Economic Policy Institute's Richard Rothstein at the Soho Forum.

Todd Krainin | 1.23.2019 3:05 PM

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Zoning

Ben Carson Calls Out Zoning Regulations for Driving Up Housing Costs

The HUD Secretary wants to revise Obama-era housing regulations he says do too little to address the real drivers of housing costs.

Christian Britschgi | 8.14.2018 10:45 AM

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Housing Policy

Jay Austin, Tiny House Innovator, Killed in Attack Claimed by ISIS

Austin was part of a group murdered in Tajikistan.

Todd Krainin | 8.1.2018 10:27 AM

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Smoking Bans

National Ban on Smoking in Public Housing Is Unconstitutional, Lawsuit Says

Tenants are challenging a HUD rule that requires local public housing authorities across the country to prohibit people from smoking in their homes.

Jacob Sullum | 7.23.2018 2:15 PM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Come and Knock on Our Door

Charles Oliver | 7.17.2018 4:00 AM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Life, Liberty, and Property

Charles Oliver | 5.18.2018 4:00 AM

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Affordable Housing

Atlanta Scrambles to Get Out of Expensive Deal It Forgot It Made

The city's housing authority committed to selling $138 million of government land for $17 million.

Christian Britschgi | 10.17.2017 9:40 AM

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The Most Wasteful Government Agency You've Never Heard Of

The Navajo Housing Authority has a long and storied history of waste, fraud, and abuse of federal funds.

Christian Britschgi | 10.6.2017 12:50 PM

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Budget

The Community Development Block Grant Program Is Awful and Should Be Cut

HUD program a significant source of corruption and cronyism, and much less about helping the poor

Scott Shackford | 3.16.2017 12:15 PM

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Discrimination

New Frontiers in Gendered-Bathroom Battles

Regulations target transgender access to restrooms in federal buildings and beds in homeless shelters.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.16.2016 9:28 AM

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Book Reviews

Is Another Financial Crisis On the Way?

We didn't learn the lessons of the last crisis. Does that mean we're doomed to repeat it?

John McClaughry | 4.5.2015 12:01 AM

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Affordable Housing

Liberal Policies vs. Affordable Housing

The chronic shortage of inexpensive housing is really a blaring signal for government to get out of the way.

Steve Chapman | 3.23.2015 12:01 AM

Housing Policy

Forget Savings, Federal Mortgage Guarantees Now Expected to Cost Billions

J.D. Tuccille | 9.25.2014 2:17 PM

Chicago

The City of Chicago Battles Blight—By Paying for Granite Counter Tops in a Gentrifying Neighborhood

How not to deal with abandoned foreclosed homes.

Jesse Walker | 6.2.2014 11:52 AM

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89-Year-Old Kicked Out of HUD Housing for Smoking Cigarettes

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.22.2014 1:10 PM

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When the Government Is the Slum Lord

At least the private ones aren't subsidized by taxpayers

Scott Shackford | 2.20.2014 6:20 PM

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FHA Will Continue Lending During Shutdown

Does the shutdown actually stop anything?

Reason Staff | 9.30.2013 7:30 PM

Eminent Domain

Using Eminent Domain to Screw the Little Guy in Spring Valley, New York

John Ross | 5.11.2013 9:00 AM

Housing Policy

The Most Important State-Federal Dispute You're Not Paying Attention To

The fight between HUD and Westchester County has implications for property owners in the rest of the country.

Walter Olson | 4.4.2013 5:00 PM

Welfare

How Government Handouts Foster Dependency

Section 8 recipients can become comfortably dependent on government assistance.

John Stossel | 1.9.2013 12:00 PM

Housing Policy

Time to Shut Down the Federal Housing Administration

Anthony Randazzo | 12.6.2012 10:10 AM

Housing Policy

FHA Finances Collapse as Agency Leadership Insists Everything is Just Fine

Peter Suderman | 11.20.2012 12:04 PM

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Peter Schiff In the Octagon with Furious Congressbots

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.13.2012 11:48 PM

Corruption

Bloomberg (News): Obama Shoulda Made HAMP, HARP Bigger

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.13.2012 7:04 PM

Economics

'The Financial Crisis Was the Result of Government Housing Policy'

The American Enterprise Institute's Peter Wallison on how government, not greed, was the essential ingredient in the 2008 meltdown.

Anthony Randazzo | 5.17.2012 9:00 AM

Economics

"You're not stabilizing the market. You're creating more chaos."

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.3.2012 1:46 PM

Government Spending

Loan-Modification Scams Only News When There's Hotness Involved

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.30.2012 7:42 PM

Economics

Washington's Lousy Real Estate Portfolio

Federal housing bureaucracies are failing. They need to fail faster.

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.27.2012 12:00 PM

Housing Policy

Obama's Next Bailout

Home flippers get a sweetheart deal from the government.

Anthony Randazzo | 2.3.2012 4:30 PM

Economics

The Last Economic Recovery Sightings of 2011

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.1.2012 6:36 PM

Economics

House Prices Plummet Everywhere Except Detroit, DC

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.27.2011 4:49 PM

Department of Energy

45 Percent of Americans Say Abolish and Consolidate HUD, 46 Percent Say Keep It As Is

Emily Ekins | 12.21.2011 2:35 PM

Ron Paul

45 Percent of Americans Say Abolish and Consolidate HUD, 46 Percent Say Keep It As Is

Emily Ekins | 12.21.2011 8:30 AM

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Robert Poole | 1.1.1973 12:00 PM

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