Rent Free Q&A: Bryan Caplan on Build, Baby, Build
People write and write and write about the need to deregulate housing construction, and yet some days it seems like minimal progress is being made. Perhaps Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) reformers would be better off drawing the argument against zoning instead.
That's certainly the view of George Mason University economics professor Bryan Caplan. His new comic book Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation makes the illustrated case for eliminating basically all restrictions on building new homes.
This is Caplan's second comic book. His first, 2019's Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration, made the radical libertarian case for eliminating all restrictions on immigration. Now Caplan and illustrator Ady Branzei do the same thing for housing.
In Build, Baby, Build, Caplan explains to readers why regulation makes housing so expensive, how building more of it would lower prices, and the tremendous knock-on benefits that would flow from more affordable shelter.
