Category Bureaucracy and Government

The Decline in American Universities, 2011-2024

Like historic Rome, American universities haven’t fallen or declined in a day—or perhaps a yr. However nearly as good of a date as any to measure the start of the decline is 2011. Enrollments began falling that yr and since…

Inclusionary Zoning Would Undermine Sacramento’s Current Housing Reforms

Sacramento not too long ago took a serious step towards fixing its housing disaster by adopting the “Lacking Center Housing Plan,” which can permit flats to be inbuilt single-family neighborhoods. In urban-planning lingo, that is “upzoning,” which raises the density…

The Newest Plan to Exacerbate California’s Housing Disaster

In opposition to the backdrop of a nationwide scarcity of reasonably priced housing, due largely to authorities insurance policies, California lawmakers wish to prohibit company funding in single-family rental properties. This might make the Golden State’s housing affordability disaster worse.…

Renters Are the Largest Losers in Kentucky’s New Registration Regulation

My home state of Kentucky is known primarily for bourbon, horse races and ranking at or near the bottom of things like education, women’s health and poverty. But none of this is surprising considering Kentucky lawmakers’ unending commitment to patently backward policies. Take the…

Arizona Ought to Not Look to California for Housing Options

“Don’t California my Arizona”—these phrases will be discovered on every little thing from T-shirts to tire covers. The slogan speaks to the concern that the Californians fleeing to Arizona will deliver with them the very insurance policies that propelled their…