Christian Britschgi
Reporter at Reason
Reporter at @reason covering housing, zoning, property rights, and occasionally heavy metal. I write our Rent Free newsletter.
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1 week ago |
reason.com | Christian Britschgi
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's stories include: The near death of Texas' Starter Home Act Colorado's pending ban on rent-recommendation algorithm software A very Catholic story of eminent domain abuse But first, our lead item on the success of pro-supply housing bills in Texas.
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2 weeks ago |
reason.com | Christian Britschgi
Nanny State The vast majority of keys on the market contain more lead than is allowed by the state's strict new heavy metal standards.
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2 weeks ago |
reason.com | Christian Britschgi
If COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab as a result of U.S.-funded gain-of-function research, is Donald Trump to blame? The New York Times opinion writer David Wallace-Wells seems to imply the answer is yes in his latest column.
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2 weeks ago |
reason.com | Christian Britschgi
Eminent Domain The last Pope Leo denounced state seizures of private property as "emphatically unjust." | (Grzegorz Galazka/SIPA/Newscom) "Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own," wrote Pope Leo XIII, in his famous 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, laying down the basics of Catholic social teaching. The plans of contemporary socialists to seize private property, Leo XIII denounced as "emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of...
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2 weeks ago |
reason.com | Christian Britschgi
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's stories include: How a pending challenge to Los Angeles' COVID eviction moratorium at the Supreme Court could pave the way for broader challenges to rent control laws nationwide Colorado Gov. Jared Polis deploys some fiscal sticks to get localities into compliance with state housing law. Why rent controls are worse than other price controls Could a Challenge to Los Angeles' Eviction Ban End Rent Control in New York?
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The gas company’s Spring newsletter is about how much money they’re charging me https://t.co/k5oGHGGsZ2
Of course the worst libertarians are bad on zoning too
@JasonSorens Just make sure that any zoning changes discourage floods of low-IQ, anti-liberty migrants. Avoid low-income housing and large apartment complexes. Push New Hampshire towards single-family housing and the types of housing most commonly purchased by libertarians.
RT @LaraFriedmanDC: https://t.co/O46xkQuzDI
