Economic Prosperity

Hoping to reduce crowds—and crime, the logic went—the city moved to ban food trucks from operating in profitable late-night weekend...

Auburn, Maine decided scarce housing was holding the city back; what they did has lessons for communities of every size.

Once you look past rosy economic impact predictions and the glittering stadium renderings, the evidence of decades’ worth of real-world...

The New York Legislature has managed to craft one of the worst stadium deals in recent memory – a remarkable...

At the end of FY 2020, 61 cities did not have enough money to pay all their bills. This means...

Since the 1950s the focus of suburban development has largely been on the separation by function: residential from commercial and...

It's only been since early November when voters in St. Paul, Minnesota, approved a sweeping rent control ballot initiative, but...

Civil asset forfeiture continues in some states because of the federal equitable sharing program. Between 2000 and 2019, the federal...

Paul Krugman recently wrote, “there’s no more room for housing” in California unless they build up. After all, he notes,...

The Washington state Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the City of Seattle could not deprive a man of the truck he was...