Texas Institute for Property Rights

When “Rights” are Wrong, Part 2

In Part 1, we saw that housing advocates are advocating four “rights” pertaining to housing. In this post, we will

Gresham’s Law holds that “bad” money drives out “good” money. For example, if legal tender laws declare that a one

For the past ten months, the American economy has been slowly decimated by government edicts and lock downs. Countless businesses

In the late 19th and early 20th century, a series of laws were enacted, primarily in Southern states, that mandated

The Texas Constitution was written to protect individual rights—the freedom of individuals to live as they choose, so long as

The law of supply and demand is a fundamental economic truth. One of its tenets is that when the demand

In the early nineteenth century, textile workers in Britain burned mills and destroyed equipment to protest the increasing use of

A growing movement across the nation claims that housing is a human right. Indeed, in March 2020, Representative Pramila Jayapal