Tag: regulation
Rent control still the wrong solution to housing woes
Restricting the price of housing kills incentives to supply places to live. Rent control is having something of a moment: In Los Angeles, tenants are...
Rules that make dishwashers, wash machines perform worse also illegal
Plaintiffs argue that the Department of Energy has no legal authority to impose its own water use limits on energy-consuming home appliances. The federal regulations...
NMHC responds to Biden’s SOU remarks on housing supply
NMHC urges lawmakers at all levels of government to enact policies and programs that will expand housing supply, which experts agree is the solution...
Supreme Court preview for January 2024: Chevron Deference breathes its last?
In one of the biggest cases of the current term, the Supreme Court’s calendar for January 2024 features arguments about the limit of federal...
FHFA requests input on multifamily tenant protections
On May 30, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) issued a Request for Input (RFI) on tenant protections at multifamily properties with mortgages backed...
Free to build
The overregulation of American housing markets began in the nation’s coastal, educated, productive enclaves. Over time, how-ever, barriers to building have spread. Tony suburbs...
New research shows regulations account for 40.6 percent of apartment development costs
Regulation imposed by all levels of government accounts for an average of 40.6 percent of multifamily development costs, according to new research released today...
SEC to mandate climate risk disclosure
On March 21, the SEC posted a proposed rule which would mandate that public companies include climate risk disclosure information in their standard filings....
The regulation burden
The Mercatus Center’s RegData project has recently extended its methodology for quantifying the number of regulations and other restrictions imposed by U.S. government agencies...
EPA signals retreat from controversial ‘secret science’ rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is dropping plans to issue a final version this year of its divisive plan to limit the agency’s...
So, what happened to SB50?
In recent years, it has become conventional wisdom that a way to provide much-needed housing in metropolitan areas is to allow denser development, particularly...
Regulation and housing affordability discussed at PCBC
At the Pacific Coast Builder's Conference in San Francisco, Doug Bibby, President of NMHC, gave a talk about why rent control has become an...
Virginia passes tenant protections
Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia recently signed a number of measures designed to increase tenant protections in the state. Several other bills with the...
The rent’s too high? Ease runaway regulation
There’s not enough affordable rental housing in America, and not enough deals that pencil to build more. The lack of land, labor and lumber...
Regulation nation
A lawyer for Duarte Nursery said the case is important because it could set a precedent requiring other farmers to obtain costly, time-consuming permits...
