Texas Institute for Property Rights

Free Market Solutions to the Housing Crisis: Relaxing Zoning

For a century, zoning has been used to segregate “incompatible” land uses. In most cities, each area of the city

Across the nation, low-income families face a severe shortage of affordable housing. (Housing is considered affordable if it consumes 30

Writing in the Washington Times, George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin addresses the issue of “just compensation” required under

Progressives are particularly adept at presenting proposals with lofty goals. And those proposals almost never work out as promised. To

Politicians can sometimes be rather creative in finding new ways to coerce individuals to act as the politicians’ desire. And

In 2016, government officials in Dorchester County, South Carolina, were concerned about mosquitoes spreading the Zika virus. They ordered aerial

In the twelve years that I have owned rental property, I have evicted eight tenants. All eight—100 percent—of those I

A lawsuit against the city of Chicago illustrates the adage, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” In