https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/03/los-angeles-measure-s/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:30:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/03/los-angeles-measure-s/comment-page-1/#comment-344586 Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:30:12 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=63467#comment-344586 […] By 31-69 margin, Los Angeles voters crush anti-development Measure S, “NIMBYism on steroids” [City Observatory, earlier] […]

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/03/los-angeles-measure-s/comment-page-1/#comment-344552 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 23:10:37 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=63467#comment-344552 Ideally, Congress should prohibit States and localities from maintaining peacetime rent control unless they have first declared a “housing emergency” waiving all the usual blocks and delays to new housing construction. Exceptions could be drawn up for bona fide safety standards and builder solvency standards.

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