For years I’ve been told the housing crisis is caused by immigrants. So I spent weeks reading ABS data, Treasury reports, RBA publications, housing research, and government statistics to see if the evidence supported that claim. What I found surprised me. Immigration matters, but the research consistently points to multiple causes: underbuilding, zoning restrictions, planning delays, construction shortages, investor incentives, population growth, and cheap credit. Focusing on one cause often ign

Graduation Week at UMD: Military Edition

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This week, the Department of Justice issued an opinion that threatens the ability of disabled people to live in their own communities. They challenged settled law, Olmstead v. L.C., from 1999, the Supreme Court case that recognized that the institutional isolation of disabled people is discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act. And for the last quarter of a century, this law has helped disabled people stay in their communities and out of institutions. So now we're in a weird legal

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