Freedom is not the absence of rules. It is the ability to exit, negotiate, and seek alternatives.

NEWFREEMARKET is a framework for examining what happens when those conditions disappear — particularly in domains where participation is effectively compulsory and exit carries catastrophic cost.

It does not begin from ideology or preference.
It begins from structure.

When rules designed for voluntary markets are applied to forced ones, prices stop signaling value, scarcity intensifies, and futures are quietly captured. NEWFREEMARKET exists to identify those conditions — and to document mechanisms by which market function can be restored.

Guardrails where markets are forced. Freedom where markets are voluntary.

Homes 1st

Homes First is not a policy. It is a sequencing principle. It means that the market conditions governing shelter must remain functional before other forms of competition can be meaningfully free.

When housing becomes a site of permanent extraction, every downstream market inherits distortion: labor, entrepreneurship, mobility, family formation, and civic participation.

Homes First asserts a simple structural rule: If people cannot exit bad housing outcomes, they cannot freely participate anywhere else. Everything else follows from that.

The Problem

Modern housing markets no longer behave like markets.

In places where shelter is non-optional, price has stopped signaling value and begun signaling tolerance. Exit has collapsed. Futures are quietly captured. This is not a moral failure of individuals. It is a structural failure of rules applied where participation cannot be refused.

The Challenge

Societies face a paradox - If forced markets are left unguarded, they degenerate into extraction. If they are over-controlled, they collapse into assignment and stagnation. Housing reform fails when it treats shelter like a luxury good — or when it abolishes the game entirely. The real challenge is preserving freedom where exit does not naturally exist.

The Answer

NEWFREEMARKET is not an ideology - It is a framework for keeping markets playable. Guardrails where markets are forced.
Freedom where markets are voluntary. By restoring exit, limiting extraction without abolishing ownership, and offering multiple transition paths, NEWFREEMARKET defends capitalism from its own failure modes — without replacing it.