Christian Britschgi
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Washington, DC, United States
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Is This the Year California's Development-Killing Environmental Review Law Sees Serious Reform?
Another court decision stopping a U.C. Berkeley housing project is getting policy makers to consider reforming the California Environmental Quality Act. → Read More
The 'Abundance Agenda' Is Still Enamored With Big Government
True abundance requires a minimal state and free markets. → Read More
Colorado Is the Latest State To Consider Rent Control
A bill currently working its way through the state House of Representatives would give cities and counties the power to impose a cap on rent hikes of as much as 3 percent plus inflation on residential buildings that are at least 15 years old. → Read More
Massachusetts Voters Ended Rent Control Decades Ago. Boston's Mayor Wants To Bring It Back.
The city's old-school rent control scheme worsened housing quality but had no effect on supply. Mayor Wu's new rent control law will likely do the opposite. → Read More
Federal Appeals Court Rejects Rent Control Challenge, Says Government Has Wide Powers To Regulate Land Use
The 2nd Circuit reasoned that the government hasn't necessarily taken a landlord's property when it forces him or her to operate at a loss while renting to a tenant he or she never agreed to host. → Read More
New Video Shows Memphis Police Fatally Beating, Tasing, Pepper-Spraying Tyre Nichols
The Memphis Police Department released video of the deadly encounter between Tyre Nichols and police officers that ultimately resulted in the death of the 29-year-old. → Read More
Concert organizer bows to politicians' demands, cancels Pantera show
The Vienna Green Party had demanded a scheduled performance of the reunited heavy metal band be canceled because of a 2016 incident in which singer Phil Anselmo threw out a Nazi salute. → Read More
Review: Even in Tolkien's Middle Earth, you can't escape immigration restrictions
Amazon's 'The Rings of Power' series is a fun fantasy show that offers an escape from most things about 21st century America—except its regulatory burdens. → Read More
Historic preservation laws are stopping this historic church from preserving itself
The financially troubled St. John the Evangelist church may not be able to convert a parish hall into a much-needed, revenue-generating asset. → Read More
The Pandemic Was a Disaster for Housing Affordability. 2023 Might Be a Little Better.
Rents and home prices skyrocketed almost everywhere over the past two years. There's some hope new supply will bring costs down in the new year. → Read More
Los Angeles County Extends Its Eviction Moratorium Again, Citing Rising COVID, Flu, RSV Cases
The moratorium is now set to expire at the end of January 2023, and the county has cited rising COVID, flu, and RSV cases as the reason, → Read More
New HUD report shows steady pandemic-era increase in unsheltered homeless population
The overall homeless population stayed basically flat from 2020 to 2022. But the number of people sleeping on the streets increased 3.4 percent. → Read More
Phoenix and the NFL Are Censoring Small Business Owners' Signs
Property owners are required to get permission from the city, the NFL, and/or the private Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee before displaying advertisements and temporary signs. → Read More
Richmond Wants To Limit New Convenience Stores Because There Was a Shooting at an Old One
The Richmond City Council unanimously approved a resolution to study applying tougher zoning restrictions to new shops as a way of cutting down on crime. → Read More
Pandemic repairs were supposed to put D.C. Metro back on track. Then it literally went off the rails.
Putting the district's train system back on track will take more than better bureaucracy. → Read More
Elon Musk Isn't the Only One Fighting Regulators for Turning Offices Into Bedrooms
Office-to-apartment conversions are already hard to do. And that's if regulations don't stop them entirely. → Read More
Ron DeSantis Admin Says in New Lawsuit That the Free Market Won’t Produce Affordable Housing
Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity is suing the city of Gainesville to block its legalization of small "missing middle" apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods. → Read More
Cities switch from requiring too many parking spaces to banning too many parking spaces
Nashville is the latest city to eliminate minimum parking requirements while capping how much parking developers are now allowed to build. → Read More
Oregon's Newly Legal Magic Mushroom Industry Could Be Strangled by Restrictive Zoning Regulations
Local governments are considering rules that could force "psilocybin service centers" to locate near highways and go through expensive, discretionary permitting processes. → Read More
New FTX CEO Describes 'Complete Failure of Corporate Controls' in Scathing Court Filings
Court filings reveal a failure of corporate controls, such as FTX executives failing to keep complete lists of bank accounts and employees. → Read More