Last week, the Wall Street Journal released an article titled, “Once America’s Hottest Housing Market, Austin Is Running in Reverse.” To the residents of Austin, this is great news—finally, home prices may be coming down. But a dip in home prices is only a drop in the bucket of housing affordability. Housing prices may be...
It’s no coincidence or “rare practice”— and it’s certainly not a case of “conservatives pounce.” The recent spate of incidents involving squatters is part of a concerted effort to undermine property rights. That includes the March death of a woman in New York, who was allegedly murdered and dismembered by teens who had been squatting...
On May 15, 2024, Texas Public Policy Foundation’s James Quintero testified before the Senate committee on the issue of “squatter’s rights.” McCaw Property Management (n.d., para 1) defines a squatter as “somebody who is living on a land or in a building that is either unoccupied, abandoned, or foreclosed without the legal consent of the...