On the heels of the California legislature's moves to constrain charter school growth and charter schools closing in Santa Clara County, The New York Times reports on how national progressives are also abandoning school choice as well, leaving minority supporters fuming.
Read MoreBig Tech donations to affordable housing are generous, but reform of zoning and land use regulations more important, say experts. Blanca Torres of SJ Business Journal reports.
Read MoreWhile the state throws obstacles at the creation of more charter schools, and cities quibble about mere dozens of new affordable units, new data shows that lack of high-school diplomas and skyrocketing housing costs play a key role in expansion of state's sad hourglass economy. Dan Walters reports from CALmatters.
Read MoreWhy do government programs so often deliver dangerous and unintended consequences? Edward Feser in Claremont Review of Books (summer 2019) analyzes Fredrich Hayek's insights into human limitations.
Arseny Zverev, Soviet Minister of Finance for nearly a decade, pictured above.
Read MoreGovernment over-regulation of the housing marketing has created a nightmare scenario in which it's almost impossible to build affordable housing. Urban Institute explains.
Read MoreThis Tuesday, San Jose's City Council will vote on placing a real estate property transfer tax measure on the 2020 ballot targeting properties valued at $2 million or more. The City says revenues generated from the tax will support San Jose’s affordable housing programs. Pat Waite, president of Citizens for Fiscal Responsibility, worries the money may end up going towards pensions, not housing.
Read More“A better solution is to make residential development much easier and less costly to undertake.”
Read MorePierluigi Oliverio, board member of the Silicon Valley Taxpayer's Association, analyzes why local residents are paying more to the government in taxes and fees and getting less in return.
Read MoreRichard Florida from City Lab reports that the U.S. government shells out nearly $200m in tax deductions for mortgage interest, only $46 billion on affordable housing.
Read MoreLA Times reports why city of Brisbane is rejecting developers' plans to build much-needed housing.
Read MoreHeather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute reports that San Francisco's lax law enforcement is complicit in the marginalization of our homeless fellow citizens and the wrecking of a once-great American city.
“The Austrian School came to signify a defense of individual liberty and an indictment of statism and central planning.”
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