Reason First: Get Government out of Housing

In the First State of Delaware, there is a housing “crisis.” Those scare quotes are there because like an abusive spouse, the city governments of Wilmington and Newark are abusing landlords and tenants. How? By being involved in the market, initially.

While some screech that the cities ought to have more power, the Delaware State Housing Authority is imposing more and more of its weight on private individuals.

For starters, the DSHA should be dismantled and done away with altogether. There is no good to be had with the local governments dictating where individuals may live or do business.

Another disgusting entanglement of the government not doing its job of protecting individual rights is licensing laws. These unnecessary and evil codes have shut off utilities to Wilmington resident Alana Evans because her living space is above the Brew Ha! Ha! Cafe which was only licensed for commercial use instead of living quarters.

What the hell? How can the city say a woman cannot live where she wants because some bureaucrat sat back and dreamed up a monstrous bit of legislation?

By ridding the Small Wonder of laws like this, it engenders a sense of wrong on the side of the government. Instead of fighting crime and seeking to keep those murder numbers nonexistent, the State (and the state) ought to but out of the affairs of individuals and safeguard their life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness.

This does not include booting people from their homes because they lack the proper license to stay there.

Delaware should lead the charge for doing away with these licenses. What is the purpose of them besides trampling on the rights of smart working Americans? There is none. The disturbing idea of the government infiltrating into the business of business (including the private affairs of residents) lies in the fact that these bureaucratic nightmares feel as if they’re doing somebody a favor.

They want to say they’re in it to “help” people. Did they “help” Miss Evans when they shut off her lights and water for not possessing a little diploma on her wall declaring she’s running a “business?”

While they love to tote geographic image systems (GIS) to determine where people should live, it is a tawdry excuse for doing something where nothing had to be done.

Cities all over the state and around the country use GIS but they forgo understanding that in a free market, these models would not even be necessary. At least not to governments. Private companies could use them to permit both residential and commercial spaces to be available without worrying about the government sticking its head into grown up affairs.

That’s what city, state, and federal entities that don’t protect rights are: children. But I give more credit to a child. State officials just assume positions that make them look like they’re adults because of a title. With their hands on nearly every aspect of daily life, they scurry about like little kids telling this person yes and that other person no on whim, without care.

Then, they claim it’s for “the public good.” Whatever that is. There is only individual good which can only be obtained and secured when the state fully respects rights.

In Delaware, the state which proclaims to be a bastion for business and law, it ought to begin the process for all states being hands off in the lives of the people it serves. The GIS maps mean nothing in the hands of government officials. The only government personnel that could use them domestically is possibly law enforcement to reduce and eliminate crime.

The time has come for all of the restrictions, red tape, and governmental nonsense to cease. Let it begin with the Diamond State.