How to solve a 'housing crisis'

James Burling , with 40 years' experience litigating property rights cases, enriches the housing debate in his book Nowhere To Live .

He points out that John Locke's prescription for a free society requires that we have rights to use, trade, exclude, and bequeath what we own.

Burling: "Unless and until we free up the pent-up desires of Americans to build new homes, America 's housing crisis will grow worse.

Richard Epstein 's 1985 book Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain .

Richard Burling : A regulatory takings statute would require courts to recognize the amount of the reduction as a compensable taking.

Vermont Senate failed to pass a bill to that end in 1991 .