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New Free Cities Book
Building Cities From Scratch
SACRAMENTO – The plan by a group of San Francisco Bay Area venture capitalists to build an entirely new city on ranch land in Solano County between the Bay Area and Sacramento has become one of the most controversial housing plans in Northern California in years. The East Solano Plan ...
Blog
The strange hypocrisy of the ‘just build housing’ YIMBYs
The strange hypocrisy of the ‘just build housing’ YIMBYs Steven Greenhut | October 2, 2024 Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from the Free Cities Center’s forthcoming booklet (“Building New Cities from Scratch: America’s Long History of Urban Experimentation”) about new cities, which was prompted by California Forever’s proposal to ...
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Read the latest from PRI's Free Cities Center
Democratic plan would bring turmoil to housing markets
A century ago, the federal government involved itself hardly at all in housing, leaving that to state and local governments, and the market. The major exception was housing on federal land, including the District of Columbia, other territories and military bases. That changed in 1937 when, as part of President ...
Blog
Read about latest taxpayer-funded giveaway for undocumented immigrants
Newsom Gets One Right in Vetoing Downpayment Aid for Undocumented
Had he signed it, the legislation would have forbidden applicants seeking financial aid for home purchases through the state’s housing purchase assistance program, created by a previous bill, from being “disqualified solely based on the applicant’s immigration status.” But as the governor said in his veto message, funding for the ...
California
Learn about the problems with LA's Measure ULA
Yet another example of a tax that didn’t live up to its promises
Measure ULA, approved by nearly 58% of the voters, initially imposed a 4% “mansion tax” on the sales of any homes or commercial properties valued at more than $5 million. The rate jumped to 5.5% on sales above $10 million. The thresholds increased to $5.15 million and $10.3 million on ...
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The three-bedroom solution to our ‘childless’ cities
The three-bedroom solution to our ‘childless’ cities by Kenneth Schrupp | September 13, 2024 Take a look around your city and think about a modal of American life for many people – college, rent, get married, start a family, work at a downtown employer, then retire and later move into ...
Free Cities
Steven Greenhut talks with Judge Glock
Watch as the Free Cities Center’s Steven Greenhut interviews the Manhattan Institute’s Judge Glock. They talk about what can be done to stimulate more housing construction, the latest anti-free market efforts of California NIMBY’s to stop new housing, how policymakers can increase housing affordability, and how free market reforms can ...
Blog
Converting offices to homes helps ease housing crunch
Converting offices to homes helps ease housing crunch By John Seiler | September 6, 2024 “There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.” —Jane Jacobs, author As cities in California and ...
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More Californians plan exit as home prices top $900K
More Californians plan exit as home prices top $900K By Steven Greenhut | August 22, 2024 When I received a job offer to move from Northwest Ohio to Orange County, Calif., in the 1990s, I thought that I had hit the lottery. The 3.1-million-population county has nearly perfect weather, idyllic beaches, ...
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High-density policies turning cities into child-free zones
J.D. Vance would not like living in Sausalito. A mere 9% of the city’s residents, the San Francisco Chronicle recently reported, are under 18, making it “one of the handful of communities in California with at least 5,000 people where less than 1 in 10 residents is a child.” Looking ...
New Free Cities Book
Building Cities From Scratch
SACRAMENTO – The plan by a group of San Francisco Bay Area venture capitalists to build an entirely new city on ranch land in Solano County between the Bay Area and Sacramento has become one of the most controversial housing plans in Northern California in years. The East Solano Plan ...
The strange hypocrisy of the ‘just build housing’ YIMBYs
The strange hypocrisy of the ‘just build housing’ YIMBYs Steven Greenhut | October 2, 2024 Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from the Free Cities Center’s forthcoming booklet (“Building New Cities from Scratch: America’s Long History of Urban Experimentation”) about new cities, which was prompted by California Forever’s proposal to ...
Read the latest from PRI's Free Cities Center
Democratic plan would bring turmoil to housing markets
A century ago, the federal government involved itself hardly at all in housing, leaving that to state and local governments, and the market. The major exception was housing on federal land, including the District of Columbia, other territories and military bases. That changed in 1937 when, as part of President ...
Read about latest taxpayer-funded giveaway for undocumented immigrants
Newsom Gets One Right in Vetoing Downpayment Aid for Undocumented
Had he signed it, the legislation would have forbidden applicants seeking financial aid for home purchases through the state’s housing purchase assistance program, created by a previous bill, from being “disqualified solely based on the applicant’s immigration status.” But as the governor said in his veto message, funding for the ...
Learn about the problems with LA's Measure ULA
Yet another example of a tax that didn’t live up to its promises
Measure ULA, approved by nearly 58% of the voters, initially imposed a 4% “mansion tax” on the sales of any homes or commercial properties valued at more than $5 million. The rate jumped to 5.5% on sales above $10 million. The thresholds increased to $5.15 million and $10.3 million on ...
The three-bedroom solution to our ‘childless’ cities
The three-bedroom solution to our ‘childless’ cities by Kenneth Schrupp | September 13, 2024 Take a look around your city and think about a modal of American life for many people – college, rent, get married, start a family, work at a downtown employer, then retire and later move into ...
Steven Greenhut talks with Judge Glock
Watch as the Free Cities Center’s Steven Greenhut interviews the Manhattan Institute’s Judge Glock. They talk about what can be done to stimulate more housing construction, the latest anti-free market efforts of California NIMBY’s to stop new housing, how policymakers can increase housing affordability, and how free market reforms can ...
Converting offices to homes helps ease housing crunch
Converting offices to homes helps ease housing crunch By John Seiler | September 6, 2024 “There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.” —Jane Jacobs, author As cities in California and ...
More Californians plan exit as home prices top $900K
More Californians plan exit as home prices top $900K By Steven Greenhut | August 22, 2024 When I received a job offer to move from Northwest Ohio to Orange County, Calif., in the 1990s, I thought that I had hit the lottery. The 3.1-million-population county has nearly perfect weather, idyllic beaches, ...
High-density policies turning cities into child-free zones
J.D. Vance would not like living in Sausalito. A mere 9% of the city’s residents, the San Francisco Chronicle recently reported, are under 18, making it “one of the handful of communities in California with at least 5,000 people where less than 1 in 10 residents is a child.” Looking ...
