All You Need Is Love (and Deregulation) Building our way to affordable cities does not require a government-led "post-neoliberal" approach to housing development. Reason · Aug 19, 2025
Texas Revs the Growth Machine Plus: The near death of starter-home reform in Texas, Colorado's pending ban on rent-recommendation software, and a very Catholic story of eminent domain abuse. Reason · May 27, 2025
Cities Want 'YIMBY Grants' To Pay for Bureaucratic Busy Work Cities are asking for federal zoning-reform dollars to pay for plans that might never pass. Reason · Oct 17, 2023
The First 'Missing Middle' Reform of the Year Has Passed. Will It Get Housing Built? Arlington's successful passage of a modest missing middle housing reform bill after an intense debate raises the question of whether YIMBY politics can practically fix the problems it sets out to address. Reason · Apr 5, 2023
Congress' $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill Includes a Baby 'YIMBY' Grant Program It needs some work. Reason · Dec 20, 2022
Federal Money Intended for Zoning Reformers Ends Up in NIMBY Clutches The White House is giving $1.5 billion in INFRA grants to entities that either don't approve new housing or are actively opposed to making it easier to build. Reason · Sep 19, 2022
Joe Biden's Use of Transportation Dollars To Incentivize Zoning Reform Is a Big Flop Little, if any, of the $2.2 billion in RAISE grants have gone to jurisdictions proactively deregulating housing construction. Reason · Aug 23, 2022
Trans activists protest at England Women’s Twickenham training session against rugby ban The England Women's Rugby team took part in a pre-season training camp today and watching on were a group of activists protesting against the ban of transgender athletes in women's rugby Daily Mirror · Aug 11, 2022
Transgender activists protest against ‘disgraceful’ rugby ban Emily Hamilton, founding co-chair of LGBTQ+ supporters association ‘Quins Pride’, was among a group staging a peaceful protest at Twickenham The Independent UK · Aug 11, 2022
Eliminating Single-Family Zoning Isn't the Reason Minneapolis Is a YIMBY Success Story Housing production is rising and rents are falling. But newly legal duplexes and triplexes make up only a tiny fraction of new development. Reason · May 11, 2022
Video of American Enterprise Institute Event on my Book "Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom" It includes commentary by housing policy specialist Emily Hamilton (Mercatus Center), and economist Filipe Campante (Johns Hopkins University). Reason · Apr 3, 2022
Affordable housing – in pandemic times, what works and what doesn't? Two years of pandemic disruptions have put a spotlight on shortcomings in the U.S. housing market. Some of these shortcomings have their origins in federal and local policy decisions made decades ago. But there are also positive examples of cities making zoning decisions that work to create affordable housing. On… The Conversation · Feb 28, 2022