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June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…incentive for long-term investment in economically disadvantaged communities that were designated by governors as so-called opportunity zones, subject to federal standards based on the communities’ median income and official poverty…
May 27, 2025
The Surprising Role of Large Developers in Solving the Housing Crunch
…the typical new home they sold was priced 28% above the local area’s median sale price. By 2024, that premium had narrowed to just 6%—a clear indication of a purposeful…
March 28, 2025
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
…a tourist magnet and neighborhood amenity, while the nearby Meatpacking District—once notorious for prostitution—now offers an array of high-end restaurants, including Japanese, Mexican, German, and Italian. Chelsea’s gentrification makes demolishing…
March 17, 2025
Trump Should Put an End to Rent Control
…incumbents want to maintain their advantages at the expense of the greater municipal good. To break this Gordian policy knot, HUD should adopt new regulations governing its major aid programs…
February 28, 2025
Trump Stopped Biden’s Plan to Force DEI on Local Communities
…upon them to address such wide-ranging goals as “environmental justice,” “climate resilience,” as well as “to better serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) youth experiencing homelessness…
February 27, 2025
How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market
…of Donald Trump voters is related to progressive housing policy’s collateral damage. Most of Stuck, however, is about how we got into this mess. Appelbaum’s skill as a historian shines here….
December 29, 2024
Why Rent Regulation Remains So Hard to Undo in NYC
…federal New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey reported a vacancy rate of just 1.4%, “a stark contrast to the 4.54 rate in 2021”. Over the same period, median monthly rent rose from…
November 17, 2024
Affordable Housing—and No Tax Hike
…abundance will also have a positive impact in addressing Denver’s burgeoning homeless rate. Housing Center research found, in a review of 54 variables, that the median-home-price-to-median-income ratio (displacement pressure) had…
October 15, 2024
Lefty NYC Council Add-Ons to Mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ Would Worse Housing Crisis
…housing has crumbled. Here’s something Speaker Adams and the entire City Council should ponder: Under Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei, that country’s largest city, Buenos Aires, precipitously “scrapped” its rent…
October 2, 2024
AOC’s “Social Housing” Dead End
…investment fall. One indicator of the popularity of AOC’s vision: at a time of sharply rising housing demand, median prices for Co-op City units last year fell 43 percent. Still, Ocasio-Cortez hopes…