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The Best Anti-Poverty Program in America Is a Building Permit

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Kai Kahale drives a delivery truck in Honolulu. His wife, Leilani, works the front desk at a hotel in Waikiki. 2 kids and 2 paychecks. The kind of family that’s supposed to make it in America.

They ren...

10 days ago
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The Wall Street Journal Got it Wrong

Last year, Ruth Haddox was sleeping on her sister’s couch in Portland, Oregon. Single mother. Three kids. No job.

She did exactly what she was told to do. She put her name on the waitlist for subsidized housing. As a jobless mother of thre...

17 days ago
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Six Months In

It’s been about six months since we launched Build the Dream, and it’s been a wild ride.

We went from zero subscribers, to a couple dozen (thanks mom), to around 80,000 across all our platforms. Views keep climbing. Somebody recognized me...

23 days ago
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You Used to Come to New York to Become Somebody

New York City used to be the place the whole country looked to. Money, media, culture. If something new was going to shape America, odds were good it started in one of the five boroughs.

And it belonged to regular people. A guy from Queens...

24 days ago

Nobody Wants to Admit the Housing Crisis Was Built By Democratic Socialism

You are a young person in America today, and there is no way to overstate how bad things look.

Rent swallows close to a third of your paycheck. Education costs are through the roof. Health care is damn expensive, if you even bother getting...

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    CEO & President of the Land Liberty Movement, Building the American Dream, Philosopher, Political Consultant, Podcast Host

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    Courtyard Urbanist, founded by Alicia Pederson, PhD, is a development brand advancing courtyard block design for North American cities, drawing on Europe’s best neighborhoods to revitalize U.S. cities with family-friendly housing.

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