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Arizona's land use and real estate questions have water law answers

Land-use and water attorneys Grady Gammage Jr. and Sean F. Krieg trace how Arizona's 1980 Groundwater Management Act tied the right to build to the right to water, and why that gate is straining under wildcat subdivisions, falling aquifers, and a shrinking Colorado River. The question was never whether Arizona grows, they write, but whether water gets priced honestly into the math.

Grady Gammage and Sean Krieg · Aug. 18, 2026 · 5 min read

Housing

Here's why home prices are so high

Short-term rentals get blamed for Arizona's high home prices. A Common Sense Institute economist walked through a decade of data and lands somewhere else: the squeeze comes from a fractured permitting system and millions of acres of undeveloped state land.

Zachary Milne · July 3, 2026 · 3 min read