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Minneapolis Strikes a Blow for Affordable Housing by Slashing Zoning Restrictions

Yesterday, the City of Minneapolis struck a major blow for both property rights and affordable housing by enacting the most extensive reduction in zoning restrictions adopted by any major US city ... read more

Carson Plan: Deregulation to Promote Affordable Housing

The topic was the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development's recently announced plan to combat the lack of affordable ... attempting to "strike a powerful blow on behalf of the poor and vulnerable" ... read more

Housing Bubble and Real Estate Market Tracker

Building Activity Continues To Lag In August (Minneapolis ... 20 strike. Implied volatility on these options stands at 90% - a tender understatement in light of the 152% licking that Countrywide share... read more

As Fair Housing Act Turns 50, Landmark Law Faces Uncertain Future

Elsewhere, many cities have utilized exclusionary zoning practices to keep affordable ... to strike down housing ordinances that have no overtly (or even intended) discriminatory purpose -- including ... read more

The Federal Reserve says the US economy is still growing

Massachusetts contacts say building and zoning laws continue to make new construction ... government contracts (including roads), and multifamily housing. Regarding multifamily, there is growing deman... read more

Uptown neighbors hate plan, but a city panel OKs it

Over objections by four citizens groups, who say a proposed apartment building near Lake Calhoun violates height restrictions, a zoning committee sent it to ... one-bedroom apartments with a lake view ... read more

West, Texas

Many here including Markos Moulitsas have condemned what they considered the inadequacies of the zoning laws in West, Texas prior to the destructive ... urban environments as LA or Chicago, Dallas or ... read more

The Volokh Conspiracy

"Mostly law professors, blogging about whatever we want since 2002." Author: The Washington Post's Volokh Conspiracy was founded by is Eugene Volokh, a professor at the University of California-Los An... read more

Russia-gate Flops as Democrats’ Golden Ticket

cutting their taxes and slashing regulations even more than the Democrats. The Republicans paid lip service to the struggling blue-collar workers but control of GOP policies was left in the hands of c... read more

Readers write for Friday, May 7

ALICE JOHNSON, Minneapolis King Pawlenty has lost his crown ... Tim Pawlenty cut health care and services to low-income individuals, as well as services for the mentally ill and disabled. He is once a... read more

I can't afford my calling anymore.

I'm going to use a cartoon to help make my point. And if you're an adult who doesn't get much out of cartoons then well, I can't help ya. I'm usually a very Hank Hill kind of a person. I've always tho... read more