Edward Feser, in a Claremont Review of Books (Spring 2019) essay on Frederick Hayek, explores how central planning inevitably leads to, well, even more central planning.
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Free-market ride sharing solutions are overtaking publicly-funded mass transit. Read more here.
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Charles Crumpley, the editor and publisher of the San Fernando Valley Business Journal, wonders what has happened to the California tax windfall. Below, read an excerpt from Fox and Hounds Daily that examines the efficacy of California’s high tax system on providing goods and services.
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Compelling new data shows charter schools improve scores for all students; Sacramento moves to limit their growth. Read the details here.
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On October 1, San Jose lawmakers held a symposium on displacement, inviting local leaders to strategize on how to make San Jose’s housing market work for low-income residents. Read more about the ideas espoused during the meeting here.
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Even with a reliably pro-labor and progressive county board of supervisors, some county workers have gone on strike. Read more about the problems with public sector unions here.
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Progressive Silicon Valley-based advocates and politicians are increasingly using racial categories to shut down debate and divide the community. Read below for a running timeline of this disturbing trend.
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Read an excerpt from California Globe on how California’s tight labor market is helping everyone looking for a job in the state’s labor market here.
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The Wall Street Journal on 9.24 outlines the role of government policies may have in exacerbating the state's growing homelessness crisis. Read some key data points here.
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Anti-market zoning laws are only one of the ways the government promotes suburban sprawl; the FHA actively finances it. Read an excerpt from a Market Urbanism Report that looks into government favoritism for single family homes here.
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This week, the San Jose City Council will debate extension of the Downtown High Rise Incentive Program, which waives certain fees so developers can build desperately needed new housing downtown with some semblance of profit. Local progressive and labor advocates inaccurately call the waiver a "subsidy," and oppose it. Scott Beyer is the founder and publisher of the highly regarded Market Urbanism Report website and podcast, and widely acknowledged as one of the nation's foremost experts on the city planning issues. Read his brief take here.
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Read an excerpt about how San Jose favors current residents over newcomers from Manhattan Institute president Reihan Salam here.
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