Minnesota law allowed Hennepin County to seize a $40,000 home owned by a 93-year-old widow to pay off a $15,000 tax debt.
Montreal's heritage laws could prevent the financially troubled St. John the Evangelist church from converting its little-used parish hall into a much-needed, revenue-generating asset.
The governor would let developers route around local zoning codes and get housing projects approved directly by state officials.
If SCOTUS finds in favor of a small-town Idaho couple in Sackett v. EPA, it could end the federal government's jurisdiction over millions of acres of land.
Economist Bryan Caplan explains how cutting back on zoning and other restrictions could create millions of new jobs for workers - on top of other beneficial effects.
Zion’s attempts to push out unwanted renters collides with Fourth Amendment protections.
The EPA and Army Corps have finalized a revised definition of "waters of the United States," which defines the scope of federal regulatory jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act.
In this case, it enables the state to declare the area around Penn Station in New York City "blighted" and thereby authorize the use of eminent domain to take property for transfer to private interests.
The overall homeless population stayed basically flat from 2020 to 2022. But the number of people sleeping on the streets increased 3.4 percent.
Property owners are required to get permission from the city, the NFL, and/or the private Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee before displaying temporary advertisements and signs.
The move is a step in the right direction. It also highlights how the issue cuts across ideological lines.
A Post-Script to the Balkinization symposium on Andrew Koppelman's Burning Down the House.
S.B. 4 would let religious institutions and nonprofit colleges skip the typical environmental review and red tape when building low-income housing on their property.
Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity is suing the city of Gainesville to block its legalization of small "missing middle" apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods.
How a Prohibition-era legal precedent allows warrantless surveillance on private property.
Private property was the solution to their failed experiment. But people keep repeating the Pilgrims' mistakes.
Nashville is the latest city to eliminate minimum parking requirements while simultaneously capping how much parking developers are now allowed to build.
The president has touted a factory jobs boom. In practice, that means forcing people out of their homes to benefit corporate projects that rely on billions of dollars of subsidies.
Here's what could happen when John Locke and Henry George go to the moon.
A new study presents compelling evidence that opposition to new housing construction is often caused the mistaken belief that it will increase housing prices rather than reduce them.
Even in cases that hinged on the trustworthiness of demonstrably untrustworthy cops, people are still waiting to get their money back.
Barack Obama could have been referring to our community, when he said that “[t]he most liberal communities in the country aren’t that liberal when it comes to affordable housing.”
The Vail Town Council says that while affordable housing is desperately needed in the community, Vail Resorts' Booth Heights project would threaten local bighorn sheep.
The free market allows people to cooperate, fix errors, and adapt to changing circumstances.
The governor made these claims on Monday while also putting a February 2023 end date on the state's emergency public health order.
Doing so qualifies as a taking requiring "just compensation" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
An important victory against "self-dealing" by state and local governments.
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.
Plus: A surge in female voter registrations, eminent domain in North Carolina, and more...
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.
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