jason sorens
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Want Starter Homes? Cut Minimum Lot Sizes
One of the big problems in the American housing market today is the dearth of “starter” homes. These are smaller,…
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Cuts to Indirect Federal Grants Could Change Research for the Better
On February 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it will be reducing its negotiated proportion of grant…
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Donald Shoup’s Crusade to Reimagine Urban Parking
“Free” parking has a huge cost. That’s the message that UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup, who died last week, took…
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Can a State Just Opt Out of Federal Social Security?
The federal old-age programs, Social Security and Medicare, are going bust. The latest trustees reports show the Social Security trust…
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Why College Tuition Prices Are Suddenly in Decline
High school seniors are in the thick of college application and visitation season. It’s not quite what it used to…
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Wealth Inequality Is a Result of Prosperity
"Wealth inequality does seem to be growing, but wealth is growing for the bottom 50 percent too, not just the…
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Does a Builders’ Cartel Explain Rising Rents?
"Stoller and Quintero may well be right that home-builder concentration does reduce housing supply and raise costs, but it hasn’t…
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Biden’s Rent Control Proposal Poses a Real Threat to Renters and Housing Providers
"Because rent control will become part of the tax code, Democrats will be able to use the budget reconciliation process…
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A Tale of Two States: Idaho and California
"People have continued to move away from California and to Idaho, but the main drivers have probably been less the…
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Is Texas Really the Future of Freedom?
"Texas does several big things really well, and I’m rooting for them to improve elsewhere. But let’s not pretend Texas…
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