Category Archives: Housing

Will the Feds Take Over Local Zoning?

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Paul Trampe

One of the Biden Administration’s first executive orders has revived the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule.” This rule was proposed by the Obama Administration, but time ran out before it could be fully implemented. … Continue reading →

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As Arlington Housing Prices Soar, Supply is Unresponsive

Posted on June 26, 2019 by matt ohern

The worst fears of Amazon critics are coming true. Housing prices are becoming increasingly unaffordable — even before Amazon sets up shop at its HQ2 facility in Arlington and floods the region with 25,000 employees. The average home price in … Continue reading →

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Want More Affordable Housing? Try Free Markets

Posted on June 11, 2019 by matt ohern

Exclusionary regulation at the local level is the root cause of unaffordable housing, and a rollback of exclusionary regulation is the best long-term solution, argue Salim Furth and Emily Hamilton, research fellows at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. “Contemporary American land … Continue reading →

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Housing’s Supply-Side Revolution

Posted on May 30, 2019 by matt ohern

IndieDwell converts shipping containers into affordable housing. The Idaho-based business has taken an idea championed locally by entrepreneurs Sheila and Sidney Gunst (see “Thinking Outside the Container“) and turned it into a growing business enterprise. The company now sells 640-square-foot … Continue reading →

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Virginia’s Unaffordable Approach to Affordable Housing

Posted on April 30, 2019 by matt ohern

If the public policy debate over affordable dwellings is as impoverished as that described in The Virginia Mercury recently, poor Virginians are doomed to lives of housing misery. Here’s how reporter Ned Oliver sums up the controversy: “Is affordable housing something for … Continue reading →

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