Month May 2024

Let Individuals Reimagine Housing to Make It Extra Inexpensive

Why is housing so costly? The reply is straightforward: we’re not constructing sufficient of it. Demand is rising quicker than provide, and that’s a recipe for rising costs. The issue is very acute in innovation hubs just like the San…

It’s Time to Tax the Universities

It’s Time to Tax the Universities Elite schools aren’t benefiting society. They shouldn’t get tax breaks. As I recounted recently in the Wall Street Journal, 20 years ago Milton Friedman wrote me to say, after doing a complete analysis, he believed…

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…

Housing Alone Can not Remedy Homelessness

In March 2021, San Francisco’s Mission Lodge held a joint funeral service for seven residents. The lodge is likely one of the websites leased by the town to deal with the unsheltered inhabitants, and resident deaths have turn out to…

The California Exodus Will get a Gag Order

The California Exodus Will get a Gag Order Based on the Los Angeles Instances, folks ought to go away “with out verbally trashing the place.” As U-Haul confirms, 2023 was the fourth consecutive 12 months throughout which extra Californians rented one-way…

In Los Angeles, “Squatters Have Rights, Too”

The chance that Beverly Hills voters will assist incumbent George Gascón for Los Angeles County district lawyer in subsequent month’s major virtually definitely has declined since final October. Squatters have been illegally occupying a $4.6 million Beverly Hills mansion, incomes…

Chicago, San Francisco Ought to Minimize Actual Property Switch Taxes

In March, Chicago voters will determine whether or not to extend town’s actual property title switch tax, a part of a referendum pushed by Mayor Brandon Johnson. However Chicago ought to contemplate the expertise of San Francisco, now working to…

Biden, Buttigieg, and Bullet Trains

This month, The Hill research, Joe Biden will journey to East Palestine, Ohio, web site of a put together derailment that spilled toxic chemical substances into the neighborhood and forcing evacuations. Biden’s go to comes “roughly one 12 months” after the…