Property Rights

A Wyoming county forced a local family to pay $25K just to build a home. Discover how the Scharp family fought back against the housing fee—and won.

Jerry W. P. Schauffler, longtime Pacific Legal Foundation trustee, former Board of Trustees chair, and Bay Area developer, passed away in the San Francisco...

“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.

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.

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. 

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

Before artists moved into SoHo, the neighborhood was known as “hell’s hundred acres,” says photographer David Lawrence. “It was full of warehouses and flop...

Cecil Andrus, Secretary of the Interior in the Carter administration, stood before a room filled with members of the National Wildlife Foundation. It was...

Cameron Edwards wakes up with the sun every morning. His land in Logan County, Kansas, stretches over 7,000 acres purchased by his grandfather and...