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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…
Sunnyside Yards and the errors of pro-growth progressivism
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter includes stories on: Two New Jersey property owners successfully fend off an effort by Perth Amboy to seize their properties on bogus…
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,…
2026 could be the year of the starter home
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. State legislatures across the country are starting to convene. As they do, it's becoming clear that 2026 will be another very active year for supply-side…
Trump targets Wall Street housing investors. The data say he’s wrong
In the latest development in horseshoe theory, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration would ban large institutional investors from owning single-family homes. "People live in homes, not…
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…
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…
Massachusetts faces 2026 ballot push for statewide rent control
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter takes a look at the bad idea in housing policy that never seems to die: rent control. In Massachusetts, housing activists, with the…
What is Zohran Mamdani’s affordable housing plan?
In the February/March 2026 issue of Reason, we explore Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's policy goals and what they mean for New York City. Click here to read the other entries. A few weeks before the New York Democrats'…
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