I have long railed against simplistic ideas that the solution for housing costs in cities is to simply build more housing. First, the so-called “law of supply and demand” is more of a simp
Great Julien Brave NoiseCat article in High Country News about the problems Native Americans face with housing, whether they live in cities (as they often do yet they are ignored in our public and pol
I’m a long-term renter, largely for reasons out of my control, which is the vagaries of academia, including having a spouse who lives several hundred miles away. I would like to buy at some poin
Affordable housing lotteries in New York are really a sign of just how woeful the housing situation is in that city for the poor, not to mention the middle class. In a January press message, the devel
Since for at least some of you, evidently rent control is the greatest evil in human history, I am wondering what should be done to protect renters? More than three dozen New York officials stepped in
Given the vast domain of the national forests in many parts of the country and the limited resources to police them, it’s hardly surprising that the national forests have become a refuge for the
The proposed agreement between SEIU and Airbnb collapsed under withering attack from other unions and the San Francisco left. In a statement obtained by the Guardian on Thursday afternoon, SEIU said i
The three last sociopaths competing for the Republican nomination will be debating this Tuesday in Milwaukee. Of course, they will be pushing visions that are counter to the interests of the people wh