From Apple to Amazon, technology concerns, which created untold value and prosperity on the back of free markets and light regulation, lose their mojo. Andy Kessler reports.
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Read an exclusive interview with Market Urbanism Report’s Scott Beyer on inclusionary zoning regulations.
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Read an excerpt from a CalMatters piece by Dan Walters on education spending.
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Read an excerpt on long-term structural changes San Jose and other metropolitan areas need to implement to solve homelessness from the Independent Institute here.
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Read how restrictive zoning forces affluent househunters into lower cost neighborhoods. Adam Hengel of Market Urbanism offers a radical analysis.
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Last week's SJ City Council meeting featured loud demands for more expansive rent control. Shifra Mendelovitz, construction entrepreneur in Brooklyn, provides a first-hand account of the damage such rent control has done in New York.
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Read here about Amazon, along with the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, fighting back against Pacific Northwest progressives' moves to tax just about everything, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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California Globe examines the legal arguments against two new rent control acts, which economists broadly agree will make the housing crisis even worse. Read here.
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The Santa Clara County Board of supervisors endorsed plans to limit the First Amendment. Read more here.
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Read Opportunity Now co-founder Christopher Escher challenge the conventional wisdom of San Jose housing activists here.
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Read an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal about the sorry state of the restaurant business in San Francisco.
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City leaders are increasingly complaining about how San Jose's government decision-making is too slow and cumbersome. This does not just happen by itself. Read an excerpt from a speech given by Edward Glaeser on why good governance and special interests never go hand in hand.
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