Property Rights
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…
Bureau of Land Management obstructs plans for Montana bison reserve
An ambitious and privately funded project to create a 5,000-square-mile prairie reserve where buffalo may roam and antelope play in eastern Montana is being stymied by an obtuse new ruling by the Bureau of Land Management…
SCOTUS is skeptical of Hawaii’s default ban on guns in businesses
After the Supreme Court's 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, several states had to repeal laws requiring that residents demonstrate a "special need" before they were allowed…
Mamdani’s promise of the ‘warmth of collectivism’ is a lie. Just ask all the failed communes.
"Replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism!" says my new socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Sounds so nice. No more greedy capitalists hoarding wealth. People share. It's the…
Barring Institutional Investors From Buying Homes Won’t Make Housing More Affordable
Andrii Yalanskyi/Dreamstime.com Donald Trump announced today he plans to ban the purchase of single-family homes by large institutional investors. As with many Trump actions, this is not something the president actually has…
Brickbat: Cracked
The Florida Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a South Florida woman fined more than $100,000 for parking on her own driveway. Sandy Martinez racked up $250 in daily fines for nearly a year because two of her…
If you give a bear a badge, will it respect your rights?
A few years ago in Connecticut, Mark and Carol Brault complained that state officials had strapped a camera to the neck of a black bear that was known to frequent their property. They alleged that the Connecticut Department…
Yale Journal on Regulation Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London
Susette Kelo's famous "little pink house," which became a nationally known symbol of the case that bears her name. (Institute for Justice.) This year saw the twentieth anniversary of Kelo v. City of New…
Brennan Center Symposium on “2025’s Most Significant State Constitutional Cases”
Today, the Brennan Center State Court Report published its symposium on "2025's Most Significant State Constitutional Cases." Contributors include Erwin Chemerinsky, Miriam Sefter, former Ohio Supreme Court…
Our Amicus Brief in the Pung v. Isabella County Home Equity Theft Takings Case
Illustration: Lex Villena; Oblachko Today, I submitted an amicus brief in Pung v. Isabella County, the "home equity theft" takings case I previously wrote about here. The brief is on behalf of the Cato Institute,…
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