A collapse in new development activity followed St. Paul voters’ approval of a strict, vaguely written rent control ordinance. City and state officials are scrambling over how best to fix the new law. Original article…
That rent control is an ineffective and often counterproductive housing policy is no longer open to serious question. The profound economic and social consequences of government intervention in the nation’s housing marketshave been documented in…
Original article by Lanny Ebenstein as seen in the Los Angeles Business Journal. The California state initiative which will appear on this November’s ballot that would prohibit state limitations on local rent control measures is…
Original content by by Dr. Stephen Hickman.
Original article by the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal. The economic law of supply and demand is simple enough, but Los Angeles is defying it again by tightening its rent control law in…
Original Article by Dennis Su and Rachel Siegel Proposal Could Lower Manufactured Home Costs, Expand Housing Supply A proposed federal rule change included in the bipartisan Road to Housing Act could cut the cost of…
Original article by Ben Nelms After years of elevated real estate prices, mortgage rates, and rents, the housing affordability crisis in the U.S. is more apparent than ever. Policy makers, economic experts, and everyday households…
Original article by Jon Fleischman. Rent control promises affordability but delivers scarcity, higher costs, and community decline, deepening California’s housing crisis. 🕒 5-minute read The Housing Trap California families are living through a housing nightmare.…
Editor’s Note: Below are excerpts from a column series on housing written by Jim Burling, vice president at Pacific Legal Foundation, and published across Southern California News Group outlets. Nowhere to Live? No Hiding from…
