John Fund writes for National Review Online about the consequences of bad public policies in Chicago and Illinois. Ken Griffin, hedge fund manager and CEO of Citadel, is donating $3…
Outdated zoning, rent controls, and other regulations are preventing people in high-demand urban settings from providing affordable housing arrangements, such as adding accessory dwelling units (ADUs) like granny flats and…
Under the headline: Why Midsize Cities Struggle to Catch Up to Superstar Cities ..the New York Times parachutes into Winston-Salem to ponder that question: Winston-Salem has been overshadowed within North…
The Mercatus Center explains why Amazon chose where it did for its HQ2(s) — and what lessons cities need to draw from it. Those lessons will sound familiar to JLF…
According to a working paper published by UC Berkley’s Institute of Business and Economic Research and the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, the answer is, “Yes.” The…
Today is the deadline for states to submit their “Opportunity Zone” nominations or risk missing out on the tax benefits such designated zones would provide over the next decade. Locally,…
Joseph Bottum reviews Richard Florida’s latest book for the Washington Free Beacon. It’s tempting to mock Richard Florida: the hipster urbanist with the hipster name, the new day’s heir to…
In his analysis, JLF senior vice president Jon Pritchett see many positives in the proposed Charlotte Major League Soccer expansion, not the least of which is the league’s new TV…
Rich Karlgaard of Forbes thinks politicians should shift their economic focus. Here’s a thought. Politicians and voters should stop trying to figure out where the U.S. as a whole plays…
In a recent story at City Journal, Aaron Renn notes that: Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio … which combined make up less than 6 percent of the American population,…
This week, the News & Observer ran a piece titled, “Self-storage developers eye prime real estate in Wake.” My first thought was that this sounded like good news. Developers are…
Some urban areas have declined in recent decades. Others have thrived. What’s the difference between the two groups? Economist Stephen Walters of Loyola University Maryland identifies one key difference: Cities…