Housing bill deadline looms for Gov. Lamont

Why Is Housing So Partisan in the Northeast?

In a recent blog post, Matt Yglesias chides northeastern Republicans for opposing pro-housing deregulation in state legislatures: Republicans have led several major pushes for housing reform in red states. These efforts are inevitably GOP-led because these states have GOP-controlled legislatures, and to the best of my knowledge, none of them have met with uniform GOP opposition. But in New York and Maryland, we’ve seen divided Democrats unable …

Housing bill deadline looms for Gov. Lamont

Tuesday is the looming deadline for Governor Lamont to make up his mind about the housing bill. Opponents and supporters are making their last-minute pitches to him. The Yankee Institute – as well as several community leaders in the state – are calling on Lamont to veto it. “One of the biggest problems with this housing bill is that it...