The New Yorker's Nathan Heller suggests that basic income grants achieve the opposite of what they intend (take notes, Ellenberg): Rather than making job markets more sustainable and worker-friendly, they encourage employers to hand out smaller paychecks since subsistence is no longer a question.

Christian Britschgi takes to Reason to refute the idea that rent control, if combined with long-term solutions like zoning reform, is a helpful temporary fix for our housing market. Analyzing SF, Britschgi points out that rent control actively discourages investment and construction; so even where there's relaxed zoning codes, housing supply won't—and can't—improve.

Steve Heimoff, Coalition for a Better Oakland's president, exclusively chats with Opp Now to unpack the rising public outcry against crime-lax city governance. Residents are observing how Woke policies actually play out, says Heimoff—and we've reached the “tipping point.”

Mahan isn't alone in restricting homeless encampment activity in SJ. City Journal's Judge Glock breaks down how many cities across America, of all political leanings, are fighting back against out-of-control unsafe, unsanitary, and unkind illegal camps.

Stanford prof and Hoover Institution fellow Thomas Dee filed a brief as part of a 2020 lawsuit that analyzes how California's school closures hurt vulnerable student groups. But the State's Dept of Education claims—perhaps unconstitutionally—that Dee can't use public data to litigate against them. The Free Beacon reports.

As CA'n leaders continue huckstering absurd and altogether backwards approaches to criminal justice (namely, that hamstringing our police depts will reduce crime), frustrated residents and businesses are speaking out. According to Newsweek, it's getting harder for locals to ignore the State's surging violent and property crime—though Supe Ellenberg insists our problem is we're jailing too many people.

Along with local NAACP chapter president Cynthia Adams, Oakland's Bishop Bob Jackson wrote a letter demanding city gov't step up and end its raging crime epidemic. In the Daily Mail, Jackson reiterates: Despite Oakland DA Price's attacks, he'll keep advocating for consistent community policing—though defund activists want to “demonize” and estrange officers.

Bloomberg reports that since the Twin Cities took an axe to single-family zoning, housing construction has surged while keeping rent prices affordable. However, a concurrent rent control policy has halted—by making financially untenable—certain projects.