technical and political process concerned with the use of land and design of the urban environment
Jon Levine writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a bad idea in the nation’s largest city. New York City’s controversial congestion pricing program, which charges drivers a toll to…
Susan Shelley writes for the New York Post about an interesting contrast between the nation’s capital and the Golden State. Videos of the nation’s capital being swept clean of homeless…
Lewis Andrews asks in a Federalist column: What will it take for blue states to embrace school choice? Last week, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union revealed she is…
Andrew Stuttaford writes for National Review Online about bad news for drivers in the United States and across the pond. There cannot be much doubt that the switch to electric…
Ryan Streeter explains how cities offer useful information to policymakers. Cities have been the most surprising source of useful insights for policy-makers over the past few years — not that the…
North Carolina’s urban counties are growing quickly, as is demand for new housing. Zoning restrictions regulate property markets and artificially restrict the supply of new housing in our cities where…
Reasonably priced housing options are scare in North Carolina cities due to the stranglehold local governments have on new building. Local leaders should roll back harmful restrictions that allow governments…
North Carolina cities are experiencing record growth, and new housing is in high demand. Burdensome zoning regulations and affordable housing policies have driven up housing costs. Loosening these regulations will…
The future belongs to the cities that can keep affordable housing growth properly matched to job growth. And that’s proving too difficult for some city governments, especially in states with…
Raleigh's welcoming "farrago of witless Marxism" turns a year old today.
This week, Locke’s Jon Sanders participated in a Davidson College virtual forum that brought together diverse views on how to address the need for affordable housing. Jon advocated for new…
An MIT study on the factors that contributed to the transmission of COVID-19 has gotten a lot of traction recently. Dominic Coletti, research intern at the John Locke Foundation, wrote…