Housing & Property Rights
Promoting policies that strengthen property rights, reduce regulatory barriers, and expand housing opportunity.
When property owners are free to build and people are free to choose how they live, communities become more affordable, dynamic, and prosperous. Housing markets function best when government protects against genuine nuisances and harms, rather than using zoning and land-use regulations to restrict growth, dictate lifestyles, or shield existing interests from competition.
This perspective informed my past work as Legislative Counsel at the Institute for Justice (IJ), where I led the legislative efforts of IJ's Zoning Justice Project. Working alongside lawmakers, advocates, think tanks, builders, and grassroots organizations across the country, I developed and advanced reforms designed to expand housing choice, strengthen property rights, and remove unnecessary barriers to housing production.
I am also the author of the ROOM Act (Restoring Options in Occupancy Models), the nation's first comprehensive model bill to re-legalize co-living housing. The ROOM Act creates a framework for legalizing rooming houses, single-room occupancy housing, and modern co-living arrangements—expanding affordable housing options while giving people greater freedom to choose how they live.
In Texas, I worked as part of the broad coalition that secured some of the most significant housing reforms enacted during the 89th Legislative Session. These included statewide minimum lot size reductions to enable starter homes, reforms allowing residential development in commercially zoned areas, legalization of single-stair residential buildings, and reforms to local occupancy restrictions that had long limited housing options for unrelated adults.
Beyond Texas, I have supported housing reform efforts in states including New Hampshire, Virginia, Florida, Montana, Rhode Island, Kansas and Missouri. My work has included legislative drafting, policy analysis, coalition strategy, testimony preparation, stakeholder engagement, and public communications designed to help reforms succeed in challenging political environments.
Whether the goal is a starter home, an accessory dwelling unit, a small apartment building, a co-living property, or a neighborhood business integrated into a walkable community, the most effective housing reforms are those that trust people more than bureaucracy.
I help clients develop and advance legislation that expands housing opportunity, protects property rights, and removes unnecessary barriers to growth—because the American Dream begins with the freedom to build, invest, and create a place to call home.