HousingPolicy
When Gov. Ron DeSantis needed a place to host a signing ceremony for a bill banning homeless people from sleeping in public, the Florida Republican chose Miami Beach. It wasn't picked just for its iconic beach and breakers. Last September, Miami Beach enacted a similar prohibition on public sleeping, which DeSantis praised at the March ceremony as a compassionate measure that would also keep the streets "clean" and "safe." It's been a selling point for South Florida. Republican Miami Mayor Francis Suarez bragged last year, during his brief presidential campaign, that because of the city's "dif...
Reason
Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's stories include: A new bill introduced by Sen. John Fetterman (D–Pa.) and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D–Del.) aims to help localities reform their zoning codes through consultation with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.The University of California, Berkeley, at long last, gets the California Supreme Court's blessing to move forward with a contentious redevelopment of People's Park.Austin considers applying an "equity overlay" to its "missing middle" reforms, much to the alarm of some YIMBYs who say the ne...
Reason
Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. Since state legislatures are winding down their sessions—thus reducing the churn of state housing policy battles that are this newsletter's bread and butter—I figure I'd change the format of this week's Rent Free up just a little bit. For our lead story, I'm taking advantage of the slower news cycle to write about an unfair Taylor Swift smear and what it might teach us about the dynamics of rising housing demand and constrained housing supply. Following that opening act is a Q&A with this year's YIMBY pop sensation, Colorado Gov. Jared...
Reason
Bryan Caplan is known for his unconventional approach to tackling big issues. With his latest book, Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation, he employs a graphic novel format to make the case for a more open approach to housing policy, partnering with illustrator Ady Branzei. It's his second venture into the world of illustrated narratives, following 2019's Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration. Reason's Christian Britschgi asked Caplan about his motivations and his outlook on the future of the "yes in my backyard" (YIMBY) movement. Q: Why make the case f...
Reason
Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's stories include: A new meta-analysis of rent control studies finds that caps on rents lower rents…along with housing supply and housing quality.A California program to build tiny homes for the homeless produces even tinier results.Cleveland, Ohio, is the latest city to consider a crackdown on short-term rentals.But first, our lead story about the researchers in the United Kingdom who make the audacious argument that the country doesn't need to build more housing, it just needs to redistribute its glut of spare bedrooms. How...
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