YOU HAVE COME from every State in the Union to consider a matter of basic national interest. Your purpose is to consider it in its long view rather than its emergency aspects. Next to food and clothing the housing of a nation is its most vital social and economic problem. This Conference has been called especially to consider one great segment of that problem-that is, in what manner can we facilitate the ownership of homes and how can we protect the owners of homes?| www.presidency.ucsb.edu
The Texas legislature is currently considering reforms to its valid petition law. Valid petitions are an obscure zoning procedure that have been used to try to obstruct a Dallas hospital expansion, student housing in Bryan, and Habitat for Humanity houses in Austin. The law has come under scrutiny as a potential contributor to the scarcity of housing—and thus its high cost. Legislators ought to either reform the valid petition process to be less onerous and more democratic or do away with i...| Mercatus Center
Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.: If they are not arbitrary or unreasonable, zoning ordinances are constitutional under the police power of local governments as long as they have some relation to public health, safety, morals, or general welfare.| Justia Law
How Zoning Laws Invalidated Private Property & Local Democracy| www.ryanpuzycki.com
How Housing Abundance Can Get America Moving Again| www.ryanpuzycki.com