Affordable Housing
Trump’s new executive order aims to drive down housing construction costs
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter includes stories on: The Trump administration's new executive order aimed at driving down housing construction costs. The latest on…
Elizabeth Warren ruins housing again; Iran war endgame?
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi are back this week to break down President Donald Trump's latest chaos in the Middle East, Elizabeth Warren's bad housing ideas, and which TV shows depict the best time travel…
Senate voted 89–10 to ban build-to-rent housing
Bye-bye to build-to-rent housing. On Thursday afternoon, the U.S. Senate voted 89–10 to pass House Resolution 6644, otherwise known by its cumbersome title, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. The bill is essentially an…
Congress’ housing bill goes from small supply booster to housing killer
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to Rent Free. This week's newsletter includes a look at a new report from the California Fire Marshal that takes a bizarrely dim view on single-stair reform, despite its potential to increase…
Zohran Mamdani’s ‘Rental Ripoff’ Hearings won’t fix New York’s housing
"No heat, no hot water. The boiler wasn't working. I have water in my walls," renter Tori Brown informed officials at the first Rental Ripoff Hearing last month in Brooklyn. Another tenant told NTD that he had…
Los Angeles’ ‘mansion tax’ is worsening the city’s housing crisis
I sometimes prattle about a proverbial $1 million tax on poodles as a way to illustrate the counterproductive nature of many tax proposals. This is an ideal analogy for Los Angeles' Measure ULA, the "mansion…
Portland’s inclusionary zoning shows the limits of subsidies
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. Thanks to traveling last week for a reporting trip, this week's newsletter is a little abbreviated. The lead item focuses on efforts to "fund"…
Housing policy can be win-win for buyers, builders, and owners
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter takes on some rather unfortunate comments from President Donald Trump about his desire to keep housing prices high for current owners,…
‘I want to drive housing prices up’
President Donald Trump recently said: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own their homes." He's made comments about wanting to raise housing prices…
Trump issues executive order cracking down on corporate homeownership
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter includes stories on: President Donald Trump's executive order cracking down on large corporate ownership of single-family housing. A…
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