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July 9, 2025
Housing Plan Falls Short
This op-ed was originally published in Your Observer. You can read the whole piece here. Recently, the Florida Housing Coalition, along with the Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Barancik Foundation, Patterson Foundation and…
July 3, 2025
A Republican Bailout for Blue Cities? The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Trap Explained
The Republican Party’s much-touted “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” includes a $14 billion bailout for some of America’s worst-run cities, all thanks to the proposed expansion of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit…
February 28, 2025
Trump Stopped Biden’s Plan to Force DEI on Local Communities
…the workforce they need for local businesses and governments. Modest changes in zoning — what Edward Pinto and Tobias Peters call “light-touch density” — can go a long way…
February 27, 2025
How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market
…their properties. In making these arguments, Appelbaum aligns himself with such right-of-center thinkers as Edward L. Glaeser, who has written in these pages about how “incumbents” use zoning to protect the value…
December 29, 2024
Why Rent Regulation Remains So Hard to Undo in NYC
…in 1997, the Harvard economists Edward Glaeser and Erzo Luttner described the “misallocation of housing” that rent controls creates. That was their term for a mismatch between what renters might…
November 17, 2024
Affordable Housing—and No Tax Hike
On Nov. 5, Denver’s voters rejected Affordable Denver, a half-cent sales tax increase for subsidized housing. The tax hike would have burdened working families while failing to address the root…
October 11, 2024
HUD’s Housing Misfire: When Bureaucrats Know Better than Markets
Kamala Harris’s proposal for a $40 billion fund for local governments to explore “innovative” housing solutions will likely funnel money into projects burdened by self-defeating government-mandated affordability requirements, which HUD…
October 10, 2024
Harris’s Housing Plan and the Five C’s That Will Derail It
…LIHTC unit costs taxpayers an estimated $450,000, compared to $0 for a private development that it displaces, making it an expensive solution for affordable housing. Complexity: As Chris Edwards highlights,…
October 8, 2024
Harris Housing Subsidies: A Recipe for Repeating Past Mistakes
Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has proposed housing policies that recycle ineffective strategies long seen in federal housing programs. Her key proposals include subsidies for the construction of 3 million new…
September 25, 2024
The Promise — and Danger — of Kamala Harris’s YIMBYism
…for new, “missing middle” starter homes. It would mean not pushing for “low-income” housing that conjures public housing high-rises but, rather, what Edward Pinto and Tobias Peters, my colleagues at…