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Tag: rent control

Unwilling to Consider Alternatives

September 1, 2023 Brian Phillips Communication, Education, Housing

A recent piece by columnist LZ Granderson argues that school choice is “a cover for segregation.” It is a rebuke

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Remove Profit from Rental Housing

August 28, 2023 Brian Phillips Housing

Housing activists have long called for the government to de-commodify housing—they want to remove profit from rental housing. A current

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A Case of Temporary Sanity in Seattle

August 16, 2023 Brian Phillips Housing

In a case of temporary sanity, the Seattle City Council recently voted down a bill that would have enacted a

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Mob Rule Rules in California

August 9, 2023 Brian Phillips Housing One comment

In 2024, California voters will decide whether to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which prohibits municipalities from imposing rent

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An Example of the Elephant in the Room

July 12, 2023 Brian Phillips Housing

Last week, I wrote about the elephant in the room regarding the affordable housing crisis for low0income households. The media

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The Wrong Framework Leads to Bad Decisions

June 14, 2023 Brian Phillips Housing

In my book, The Affordable Housing Crisis: Causes and Cures, I show how a century of policies attempting to provide

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Price Controls are Kinda Sorta Bad

May 31, 2023 Brian Phillips General, Housing

An editorial by the New York Daily News Editorial Board provides an example of the nonsense that can be written

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The “Shabbifying” of NYC Rental Housing

May 29, 2023 Brian Phillips Housing

Howard Husock, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, uses data from the Census Bureau to illustrate how rent

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