Check out the new report by our Pacific Legal Foundation colleagues Kyle Sweetland and Brian Hodges, “How to Protect Property Rights from Improperly Assessed Exactions” (Apr. 2025).
This research in brief shows how exactions grew and increased home construction costs over a 16-year period. It provides a history of exactions, showing how they have frequently moved away from their original impact-mitigation purpose and how that shift in purpose risks violating the Constitution. It illustrates an improperly assessed exaction and provides examples of how exactions have hampered construction during the present housing crisis. It concludes by examining how state legislatures can help set boundaries on local exactions and protect property rights.
It’s short, its sweet, it’s straightforward and understandable. What more could you want? Oh yeah, unlike exactions … it’s free. No strings attached. Check it out.
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