<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This New York Times piece features the kind of analysis that I think is getting left-leaning folks on board with fighting for more economic freedom, at least within a limited scope, via groups like the SF Bay Area Renters Federation (<a href="http://SFBARF.org">SFBARF.org</a>):<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/business/how-anti-growth-sentiment-reflected-in-zoning-laws-thwarts-equality.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/business/how-anti-growth-sentiment-reflected-in-zoning-laws-thwarts-equality.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> I recently spoke on property rights at a YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) conference, not so coincidentally in Boulder, Colorado – which was attended by the Times' reporter, who also included me and a couple mentions of the L-word in a previous Times piece he wrote on SFBARF and its founder Sonja Trauss – and was heartened to see that the appeal of groups like SFBARF that generally seek more sanity on land use to young, otherwise left-leaning residents does not appear to be limited to San Francisco. It's a dynamic that makes YIMBYism an excellent cause for libertarians to support, imho.</div><div><br></div><div>Love & Liberty,</div><div> ((( starchild )))</div><div> At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee (2016-2018)</div><div>At-Large Alternate, Libertarian Party of California Executive Committee (2016-2017)</div><div> <a href="mailto:RealReform@earthlink.net">RealReform@earthlink.net</a></div><div> (415) 625-FREE</div><div><br></div><div><i>“You don’t want rules made entirely for people that have something, at the expense of people who don’t.” </i></div><div>– Jason Furman, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, quoted in the article linked above</div></body></html>