The American Dream isn't dead. It's blocked.
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In Grand Prairie, Texas, you can turn a dead strip mall into apartments. State law says so. The city has a condition: first build an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Since that law took effect, Dallas has new projects. Fort Worth has new projects. Arlington, Plano, and McKinney are moving. Grand Prairie has built zero units. Not one. That is not an accident. It is the point. What this actually costs…
At fourteen years old, Alicia Pederson felt stuck in suburban Michigan. Like most kids her age, she was completely dependent on a parent to see her friends or get anywhere outside the house. Even back then, she knew it didn’t have to be that way. After college, she moved to Florence, Italy as an au pair. She lived with a family in a building that had stood since the 1500s. They lived in a…
As I’m recording this, I just got back from FreedomFest. We had a great time — lots of new sign-ups, new collaborations, media hits, and donors stepping up. I’m fired up! One thing that stuck with me: we spent a lot of time talking to people about their housing stories. Older folks kept telling us the same thing — their kids and grandkids are still living at home well into their late twenties.…
She challenged me on the death of the American Dream
My interview with the Montana Family Foundation
The One Thing the Conservative Movement Never Wanted to Talk About
You're paying for asphalt you'll never use. The government made sure of it.
A new chairman just took the Federal Reserve's chair. The machine he inherited is an unseen driver of our housing woes.
Three years ago, Montana did something nobody in Washington thought was possible. In a state most Americans picture as cowboys and Yellowstone reruns, a group of legislators, think tank researchers, and ordinary people who were tired of watching their hometowns become unaffordable passed the most aggressive housing reform package in modern American history. National media called it the Montana…
Ray Niles has lived in New York City his whole adult life. All over Manhattan and Brooklyn, across decades of a city that has never quite figured out how to let people build the housing it desperately needs. He spent fifteen years on Wall Street before walking away to earn a PhD in economics to study exactly why cities like his keep making the same mistakes. He’s watched New York make the same…
California Shows Us – Again— What Not to Do.
He Tried to Pass Down the Family Land. The Government Said No.
A familiar intergenerational fight broke out again.
An Interview with the Libertarian Christian Institute
At this rate, it will take 500 years to make the Palisades a community again.
The backbone of home ownership was banned by a law you’ve never heard of
“Are we trying to do nothing? I don’t get it. People Live in Houses”
I am speaking at the huge gathering of freedom fighters. You should come too!
We can do this folks. Just don't let up.
The MAGA Case Against the Bureaucrat Tax
You should be able to build some homes on that empty commercial lot, actually.
