Fund Ukraine's War Effort by Confiscating Russian Government Assets
The $300 billion in frozen Russian state assets in Western nations could fund a large part of Ukraine's defense.
The $300 billion in frozen Russian state assets in Western nations could fund a large part of Ukraine's defense.
Los Angeles voters will decide in March whether to force hotels to report empty rooms to the city and accept vouchers from homeless people.
Why have so few species been taken off the endangered species list?
Pro-zoning candidates in Caroline, New York, won the elections for town supervisor and three seats on the town board.
The U.S. Supreme Court keeps putting off deciding whether to take up a challenge to New York's rent control scheme.
Without a prompt post-seizure hearing, people can lose their property for months or years even when they ultimately get it back.
The state housing officials who performed the audit describe San Francisco's approval process as a "notoriously complex and cumbersome" mess.
A masterful epic from one of Hollywood's most important, most ambitious filmmakers.
The Aldine Independent School District had wanted the property as part of a $50 million redevelopment of its high school football stadium.
Missing middle housing reforms are getting more popular. But they're not getting much more productive.
Mississippi only gives property owners 10 days to challenge a blight finding that could lead to their house being seized through eminent domain.
A zombie law, thrown out in court, continues to wreak havoc because it’s referenced in a contract.
The case will consider whether the government is exempt from takings liability for imposing exactions as a condition of development rights in situations where the exaction is imposed by legislation. Unlike many Supreme Court cases, this one can be resolved very easily by applying a basic principle of constitutional law.
The badly flawed lower court ruling defies the Supreme Court's landmark 2019 decision forbidding such Catch-22 traps, and threatens the property rights of large numbers of people.
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!)..
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.
A coalition including the state ACLU, Sierra Club, and Native Hawaiian cultural groups argue Gov. Josh Green vastly exceeded his emergency powers when he waived most regulations on homebuilding.
"The city is treating our private property as the city's housing stock."
A nice review of Climate Liberalism by Jordan Lofthouse (and a less nice one by Robert Bradley).
The decision provides important protection for property rights, and features a powerful concurring opinion by prominent conservative Judge Amal Thapar.
"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?
The Houston-area Aldine Independent School District is considering the use of eminent domain to seize a one-acre property owned and occupied by Travis Upchurch.
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.
Eli Kahn and Salim Furth provide overview of developments in the states, and lessons that can be learned.
In this case, an LA SWAT team destroyed an innocent store owner's shop in the process of trying to catch a suspect.
HOPE Fair Housing Center argues in a new federal complaint that an Illinois landlord's blanket refusal to rent to people with eviction records amounts to illegal sex and race discrimination.
It's a short-sighted approach that distracts us from the more important question.
Policy analyst Justin Hayes summarizes the reasons why conservatives, progressives, and libertarians all have reason to support zoning reform.
The 2018 ban led to the loss of approximately 44,000 jobs and $28 million in revenue.
A town clamps down on distributing clothes, personal care items, and food to the homeless.
This is the second RAISE grant San Francisco has received since the Biden administration retooled the program to reward jurisdictions for adopting zoning reforms.
A Sixth Circuit decision holds qualified immunity protects a state elevator inspector from being sued for taking a hotel's property.
Justice Gorsuch has never voted against Native American interests in a Supreme Court case. But that probably isn't because he's biased in favor of Indians. He simply believes that much existing precedent in this field is biased the other way.
Home prices were unaffected by a ban on buy-to-rent housing in the Netherlands, but more affordable rental housing disappeared.
If the government floods private property on a recurring basis, it is automatically required to pay compensation, and owners' claims are not subject to a balancing test.
The Pacific Legal Foundation is sponsoring a symposium on this important issue, which may be of interest to legal scholars and others.
The FAIR Act would be a significant step forward. It just passed the House Judiciary Committee on a unanimous 26-0 vote.
The FAIR Act includes several substantial reforms that would make it harder to take property from innocent owners through civil forfeiture.
Robert Poole's effort to defend exclusionary zoning falls prey to a combination of logical fallacies and factual error.
Legal scholar Julie Suk argues the answer is "yes." The idea has a solid basis in natural rights theory, but is at odds with longstanding legal doctrine. It also has potentially very broad libertarian implications.
Meanwhile, big, partisan "everything bagel" zoning reform bills that tried to squeeze through the entire YIMBY agenda floundered.
"All the time we hear socialists say, 'Next time, we'll get it right.' How many next times do you get?"