Like many cities in the United States, Blaine, Minnesota, is facing a housing shortage. In 2021, the city took steps to address this issue by passing Local Ordinance 21-2489, which permitted property owners in residential…
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. They say all politics is local, and that's particularly true of housing politics—where localities and (increasingly) states are the main policy-setting…
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter includes stories on: The passage of single-stair reform in Nashville, Tennessee A new legal challenge to Seattle's affordable…
Rental prices in some of the country's largest cities are falling—some by almost 45 percent, according to new data from Five Star Cash Offer, a real estate investment firm that operates as a direct cash homebuyer. The…
California Democrats are once again showing us who they really work for — and it’s not homeowners, renters, or local communities.Senate Bill 79 (SB 79), authored by State Sen. Scott Wiener, marks the Democrats'…
These are Alice in Wonderland times, where limited-government conservatives often defend big-government policies, big-government progressives regularly support deregulation and everyone else is left scratching their heads.…
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter takes a look at former President Barack Obama's recent speech in which he urged Democrats to be more YIMBY. Also included is an…
A New Jersey town's attempt to bypass the state's affordable housing mandate has hit a roadblock. On June 27, the New Jersey Superior Court upheld a trial court ruling preventing Middletown Township from using…
NA It wasn't a great Supreme Court term for property rights advocates. In March, the Supreme Court refused to hear Bowers v. Oneida County Industrial Development Agency, which I and many others thought would have been a…
Illustration: Lex Villena; Lev Kropotov Next year is the 100th anniversary of Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty, the Supreme Court decision upholding exclusionary zoning. I think Euclid is one of the worst supreme Court…
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