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Chance Weldon

Attorney, Center for the American Future

Chance Weldon is an attorney with the Center for the American Future at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, Chance served as a fellow at the Pacific Legal Foundation in Sacramento, California and the Institute for Justice in Austin, Texas. As a fellow, he worked on cutting-edge litigation involving economic liberty, free speech, school choice, and private property rights.

Latest Columns

Government

Make short-term rental policies on evidence, not anecdotes

By Robert Henneke and Chance Weldon, Dec. 15, 2017

As with any human endeavor, there will always be some bad actor out there that can provide fodder for anecdotal reports. But we don’t base public policy on anecdotes, we base it on facts — particularly when constitutional rights are at stake. That's the case with short-term rentals.

Economy

Short-term rental owners win again in Texas Courts

By Chance Weldon, Sept. 22, 2017

Short-term rentals have been part of Austin neighborhoods for more than a century. They have never been a problem. The ability through the internet to easily connect owners and guests in a free market environment hasn’t changed that.

Environment

The tangled web of the Commerce Clause

By Chance Weldon, Dec. 17, 2015

Since the New Deal, the Commerce Clause has been Congress’ go-to statute when it wants to regulate something but doesn’t have a mechanism to justify it.