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How Government Regulations Make Housing Unaffordable
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Author: Mitchell Harvey Tam Alex
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Category: Bureaucracy and Regulation, Free Markets, Poverty
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. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Millian Quinteros. Original Article: “ How Government Regulations Make Housing Unaffordable​
How Government Regulations Make Housing Unaffordable
Mises Wire
Author: Mitchell Harvey Tam Alex
Online Publish Date:
Category: Bureaucracy and Regulation, Free Markets, Poverty
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 scourge of unaffordable housing. Sowell is still right. Government housing regulations have exacerbated construction costs, reduced the