Here’s an idea for increasing affordable housing in Las Vegas: repeal the law requiring new mobile home parks to pay $5,000 per unit “water tax.” Check out this memo from the Legislative Counsel Bureau’s Scott Young…
Real estate people tell me that there hasn’t been a new mobile home park built in Las Vegas since the […]

The Las Vegas Sun opinion writers harshly criticized Nevada’s governor today for not doing enough to help homeowners and real estate speculators who are not able to keep up with the payments on their real estate loans. Plus, he’s a Republican.
The Sun correctly notes that Nevada’s government has:

rolled out a Web site that compiles all […]

From the latest policy study (PDF file) at the Nevada Policy Research Institute:
The federal government owns or controls 86 percent of the land in Nevada and even more — 89 percent — in Clark County. The tight federal grip on this land is causing economic harm — and, in many cases, genuine hardship — to […]