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Two Birds of a Fiscal Feather

For a few years, controversies about property taxes and lease administration have been near the best of the document of state and native authorities disputes. Proposition 13 and the alternative efforts to limit property taxes that it impressed are a…

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…