Mitchell Harvey

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How Government Regulations Make Housing Unaffordable

07/08/2020 Mises Wire Mitchell Harvey Tam Alex

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. In Economic Facts and Fallacies (2011), Thomas Sowell argues that housing regulation and zoning laws, not markets, are to blame for the modern...

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How Government Regulations Make Housing Unaffordable

07/16/2020 Mitchell Harvey Tam Alex

The story of how housing became so unaffordable for so many is a tragic one. But this is a story of our own making, thanks to decades of misguided government regulations.

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