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Category: Property

Fighting Zoning in Hobbs

July 24, 2023 Brian Phillips Property, Zoning and Land Use

This post is the fourth in a series. About twelve years after zoning was defeated in Houston, I was contacted

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Fighting Zoning in Houston

July 21, 2023 Brian Phillips Property, Zoning and Land Use One comment

This post is the third in a series. In early January 1990 (I think it was January 1) the local

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Free Market Solutions

July 19, 2023 Brian Phillips Privatization, Property

This post is the second in a series. Before I could determine if Ayn Rand was correct in claiming that

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Without Property Rights, No Other Rights are Possible

July 17, 2023 Brian Phillips Property One comment

Nearly forty years ago I read Ayn Rand’s essay “Man’s Rights,” for the first time. I was new to Rand’s

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Picking the Wrong Enemy

July 10, 2023 Brian Phillips Property

Rancher and columnist Amanda Radke correctly notes that freedom and property rights are inseparable. And then she promptly attacks property

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Adverse Possession

June 2, 2023 Brian Phillips Property

A little-known aspect of property rights is the concept of adverse possession, sometimes called squatters rights. Founded in common law,

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Few People Care About Property Rights…

May 26, 2023 Brian Phillips Eminent Domain, Property

Few people care about property rights until it is their property that is threatened. For example, when the federal government

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PLF Wins Big at SCOTUS—Twice

May 25, 2023 Brian Phillips Environmentalism, Property

Today, the United States Supreme Court announced two unanimous rulings in cases that had been filed by the Pacific Legal

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