WASHINGTON, D.C. – Governmental urban planning measures are the cause of rising home prices around the nation, according to a report released this week by the Washington, D.C.-based Independent Women's Forum (IWF), a non-partisan research institute dedicated to supporting women who believe in the principles of economic freedom, individual responsibility and limited government.
According to the report, which was authored by IWF Senior Fellow Angela Logomasini, housing costs are high in the U.S. because of myriad of zoning regulations that increase building expenses and because of rent control and other government polices regulations that discourage investment in new housing.
