Burlington’s new Zoning is mostly unprecedented in New England. Really only comparable to ambitious reforms like Minneapolis and Sacramento. Two buildings now allowed on every parcel, multifamily along major bus routes, 4-plexes allowed everywhere.

Let's talk about the Comstock Act. The Comstock Act is an arcane and discredited law from the 1870s. Today in 2024, Republicans want to use it to ban abortion nationwide. Even in states where abortion is protected. I'm ready to fight back and repeal it.

BREAKING: The FTC just banned non-compete agreements. The Federal Trade Commission has issued a final rule making it illegal for bosses to make workers sign noncompetes in any scenario, and voiding nearly all existing noncompetes. This is a game changer for American workers.

The House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pretends to be serious about addressing antisemitism, but let’s get clear on exactly who is fueling antisemitic hate and tropes: Republican leaders. WATCH:

Time to end their monopoly *era*! No more exorbitant ticket prices or deceptive practices that harm fans, venues, and artists.

NEW: Congressman Chuy García and I introduced legislation to ban digital price fixing by landlords. Rents have gone up nearly 30%, and predatory tech companies are driving up profits by colluding with landlords to illegally hike already high rent and take advantage of working families.

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Transforming vacant dorms into affordable housing. Converting a hotel into a homeless shelter. Addressing racial disparities to end the homeownership gap. This week, Acting Secretary Adrianne Todman traveled to Vermont to work on tackling the housing crisis with us. Together we’ll get it done.

My bill with Congressman Chuy García would ban exactly what RealPage is doing: driving up profits by colluding with landlords to illegally hike already high rent and take advantage of working families. We literally can't afford to let this continue.

House Republicans say they don't support a national abortion ban. To them we say: Prove it. Now's the time to clear that up by supporting the Stop Comstock Act. If it's true you don't want to see abortion banned nationwide, then let's put Comstock to rest. Right, Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon?

🎵H-O-T-T-O-G-O I'm always sad to see my interns go🎵 Grateful to my interns for all of their hard work this summer!

The idea that undocumented immigrants "bankrupt" the country was always silly, but ITEP ran the numbers. Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022, and in most states, they pay higher tax rates than the top 1%: itep.org/undocumented-i…

This 5th Circuit stay of the DOT's airline fee disclosure rule foreshadows exactly how that court will limit FTC's rulemaking authority in the noncompete case. A master course in how to read statutes you don't like right out of the U.S. Code. law360.com/consumerprotec…

🚨🚨🚨🚨 THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WON ITS CASE AGAINST GOOGLE SEARCH!

I spoke with The Atlantic about RealPage and the broader threat of "AI price-fixing" to fairness across the economy. Fair to say that courts do not yet have a grip on this problem, and we should see more legislative efforts to curb the practice outright.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

DOJ set to file a suit against RealPage, a company that has overseen a brutal campaign of collusion to artificially raise rents. Greed is the business model. RealPage is just one perpetrator within a system that is built on tenants’ financial insecurity. nytimes.com/2024/08/23/bus…

Inbox: FTC, DOJ, DOL + NLRB are strengthening their coordination on labor market competition issues in merger review. Under a new MOU, the antitrust agencies can expect quick assistance and info sharing from the labor enforcers, per a press release: ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

Delighted to share – several months late – that my article Justifying Redistributive Regulations will be published later this year in Michigan Journal of Law Reform and that the current draft is up on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Many housing providers are using algorithms to collude to jack up rent. Vice President Harris supports my bill to ban that practice — the Preventing Algorithmic Facilitation of Rental Housing Cartels Act. Let's pass it and lower rent for families across the country.

pains me to agree with the economist but even they can see it!