2026 | Spring Issue

Home

Your home and the people inside it: that's what the government is built to protect. But what happens when the government threatens homes instead?

Read the Issue

featured articles

At the Supreme Court: Michigan Family Loses Home to a Government Mistake 

Brittany Hunter, Editorial Writer

Marc and Tia Pung were in the middle of remodeling their home in Isabella County, Michigan, when they lost the house to the government.

The Beach Home that Cannot Be Fixed 

Collin Callahan, Communications Strategist

In Rhode Island, it seems, the storm is just the beginning. The real damage to your home comes afterward, at the hands of the State. 

The Dangers of Renting a Room 

Jon Houghton, Attorney

Joseph Kast, Creative Manager

There are sudden home invasions and then there are slow ones, the kind that unfold over months or even years, by increments so small you don’t realize you’ve lost control of your home until it’s too late. That’s what having a nightmare tenant is like.

A Room for Grandma 

Nicole W.C. Yeatman, Editorial Director

“The nuclear family was a mistake,” David Brooks declared in The Atlantic in 2020. He meant it not as an attack on the family but as nostalgia for multigenerational living.

He Wants to Finish Building His House. Massachusetts Won’t Let Him.  

Anastasia Boden, Senior Attorney

In Massachusetts, anyone who does their own plumbing without a license is breaking the law. 

Jerry Schauffler: He Built Homes and Protected the Right to Build 

Steven D. Anderson, President and CEO

Jerry W. P. Schauffler, longtime Pacific Legal Foundation trustee, former Board of Trustees chair, and Bay Area developer, passed away in the San Francisco Bay Area at the age of 93. He was PLF’s longest-serving Board member.  There is a particular kind of person who understands what it takes to make a home—who has spent […]

popular topics

Education
Free Speech
Supreme Court
Entrepreneurship
Home & Family
Environment
Property Rights
Equality & Opportunity
Separation of Powers
Housing
Agriculture
Discrimination
Regulation
Due Process
History

Issues

image-1
image-2
image-3
image-4