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The Cato Institute has posted a non-paywalled version<\/a> of my recent Washington Examiner<\/em> article<\/a> on “Foot Voting, Housing, and Affordability.” I don’t see a paywall blocking the article on the Examiner<\/em> website. But some readers have told me they have encountered one. Regardless, you can now avoid any paywall by reading it at the Cato site. Here is an excerpt that summarizes the article:<\/p>\n

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Affordability<\/a> was the biggest issue<\/a> in the 2025 off-year elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In various forms, affordability played a major role in the winning state campaigns of center-left candidates such as Govs.-elect Mikie Sherrill<\/a> (D-NJ) and Abigail Spanberger<\/a> (D-VA). It also propelled a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, to the leadership of the largest U.S. city, a major global financial hub. A year earlier, the affordability issue played a crucial role in President Donald Trump’s<\/a> 2024 win.<\/p>\n

A central element of the affordability problem in recent years has been the high cost of housing<\/a>, to the point where many people are prevented from living in the communities where they would like to be. Housing shortages increase the cost of living, prevent millions from “moving to opportunity,” and curtail people’s ability to “vote with their feet.”<\/p>\n

The problem of housing affordability is attracting increasing public attention. But many politicians in both parties continue to promote policies that make it worse: rent control in the case of many leftists, such as Mamdani, and tariffs<\/a> and deportation of immigrants<\/a> when it comes to Republicans, led by Trump. Both parties would do better to drop the counterproductive snake oil and instead focus on eliminating exclusionary zoning and other regulatory restrictions, which are the main causes of the crisis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The rest of the article develops these points in detail, explaining the benefits of curbing exclusionary zoning, and also why rent control, deportations, and tariffs all actually exacerbate the housing crisis instead of alleviating it.<\/p>\n

I cover some of these issues in greater detail in my recent Texas Law Review<\/em> article, “The Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning<\/a>” (coauthored with Josh Braver). We also published a shorter, nonacademic version<\/a> in the Atlantic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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