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Category: Housing

The Ethics of Home Ownership

March 13, 2023 Brian Phillips Housing

Altruism can raise its ugly head in myriad, and often surprising, ways. An example comes from, Desiree Lim,  an assistant

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Frame the Issue in Moral Terms

March 1, 2023 Brian Phillips Housing

The opponents of rent control rarely take a moral stand on the issue. They fail to identify rent control as

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Coming to Your City: National Rent Control

February 13, 2023 Brian Phillips Housing

In early January, fifty Democrat members of Congress sent a letter to President Biden. The letter urged him to “to

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Home Equity Theft

January 25, 2023 Brian Phillips Eminent Domain, Housing, Taxes

In 2015, Hennepin County, Minnesota, seized a condominium for $15,000 in unpaid property taxes. A year later, the condominium was

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Leftists do not Value Producers

January 20, 2023 Brian Phillips Housing

From Britain comes an interesting, though implicit, admission that Leftists do not value the producers. Vicky Spratt, the “housing correspondent”

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Throwing Gasoline on the Fire

January 18, 2023 Brian Phillips Housing

Early in the pandemic, Los Angeles (along with many other cities around the country) enacted an eviction moratorium. That moratorium

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Profits Before People

January 11, 2023 Brian Phillips Housing

On January 1, in response to rapidly rising housing costs, it became illegal for most foreigners to purchase a home

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Drinking the Kool-Aid of Rent Control

January 6, 2023 Brian Phillips Housing

Santa Ana recently became the first city in Orange County, California to enact rent control. The city plans to create

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