The St. Paul City Council passed a series of amendments to a voter-passed rent stabilization ordinance that exempt new construction and make it easier for landlords to factor inflation into rent increases.
The Big Apple's building regulations are almost impossible to navigate, and officials like it that way.
The proposed policy was offensive to property rights and disincentivized construction. The mayor's rejection of it shows the state's increasing interest in allowing more building.
They mandate occupation of private property without the consent of the owner.
The state's Republican administration comes out against property rights and local control.
Associate Editor Christian Britschgi breaks down how zoning restrictions distort the housing market.
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The Harris County, Texas, District Attorney's Office oversees civil forfeitures that make a mockery of justice.
Good news for fans of literacy and opponents of restrictive zoning codes
Economist Tyler Cowen argues this approach is too often neglected. But is more common than he suggests.
Segregation-era racists tried to drive the Bruces away from their own beachfront property. When intimidation didn't work, they resorted to the power of the state.
Conservatives' guiding principle should always be less government control, not more.
The Institute for Justice urges SCOTUS to renounce that open-ended exception to the Fourth Amendment.
Even socialist kibbutzniks can come to appreciate the benefits of markets when given a chance to directly compare them to socialism.
"You have to ensure the citizens are protected against the power of the state. This is what we call liberal democracies."
But it does so on the ground that the moratorium was never properly "authorized," not because a moratorium could never be a taking.
The ruling authorizing the award is at odds with other federal court decisions holding that law-enforcement exercises of the "police power" are exempt from takings liability.
Even if the value of their property goes down, current homeowners still often have much to gain from breaking down barriers to new housing construction.
As COVID-19 spread across the country, complex rules around land use and building permits made housing the poor and vulnerable effectively impossible.
Now that the pandemic is fading and much of the available rent relief has been spent, L.A.'s eviction moratorium seems like pure regulatory inertia.
The Moore family has lived on their land for generations. Now the state of Alabama says their homes must make way for a highway.
The change represents a substantial reversal of civil forfeiture reforms aimed at protecting innocent property owners.
The Georgetown professor isn't a toy lover—he's trying to convey a philosophical idea about the nature of free will and the capacity of humans to remake the world around them.
Understanding the scope of Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid.
The settlement came after the Justice Department agreed to return more than $1 million in proceeds from state-licensed marijuana businesses in California.
That fact doesn't necessarily justify overruling Roe. Depending on how it's viewed, the history of such reversals may even counsel against further such moves.
Tawanda Hall's house was worth $286,000 more than her overdue tax bill. There was nothing she could do about it.
It explains why laws requiring private property owners to allow guns on their land are an affront to property rights, and violate the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Empyreal Logistics agreed to drop its claims against the Justice Department, but it is still suing San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus.
The court based its decision on the US Supreme Court's 2021 decision in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid.
My Duke Center for Firearms Law piece on why laws forcing private property owners to allow guns on their premises violate property rights and often qualify as takings requiring compensation under the Fifth Amendment.
It includes commentary by housing policy specialist Emily Hamilton (Mercatus Center), and economist Filipe Campante (Johns Hopkins University).
Preservationists hope to make the one-time home of Loren Miller a historic landmark. That it would make it nearly impossible to redevelop the $1.4 million two-bedroom home.
2.5 million dead bees, and an unlikely test of public health powers.
Nay, says the Florida Court of Appeal majority, interpreting a recent "statute authoriz[ing] residential property owners to remove trees from their property without interference from local government" if an arborist or landscape architect says the "trees present a danger to persons or property."
Bianca King argues in a new lawsuit that Lakeway, Texas, zoning officials illegally deprived her of her right to earn a living by denying her a permit for her home day care business.
How the zeal for government project housing killed a prosperous black community in Detroit.
A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order, saying the evidence of legal violations is insufficient at this point.
Michael and Chantell Sackett say they shouldn't have to spend years—and hundreds of thousands of dollars—just getting permission to build on their suburban lot.
The Sacketts get a return trip to the Supreme Court.
The Institute for Justice argues that the seizures violated state law, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution.
Fowl regulations are improving in some places, ruffling feathers in others.
The article challenges longstanding conventional wisdom claiming that judicial review of democratically enacted laws is at odds with popular political choice.
Malinda Harris’ ordeal shows how easily the government can take innocent people’s property under civil forfeiture laws.
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The decision is at odds with rulings by some other federal courts, and could end up setting an important precedent.
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