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September 4, 2024

Kamala Harris’s Housing Plan Would Be Worse Than Doing Nothing

…cost and without unintended consequences. Edward Pinto is the senior fellow and codirector of the American Enterprise Institute Housing Center. Tobias Peter is the senior fellow and codirector of the…

June 12, 2024

Our Homeless Problem is Getting Out Of Control — What Can We Do?

…spaces become unusable.  Continue reading here. Tobias Peter is a Senior Fellow and Codirector of the AEI Housing Center. Ethan Frizzell serves with The Salvation Army in Southwest Florida and consults…

May 9, 2024

State Housing Bills Are Dead; Time for Local Leaders to Step Up

…own commonsense housing reforms. This op-ed was originally published in the Star Tribune. Tobias Peter is a Senior Fellow and Codirector of the AEI Housing Center. The views expressed in this…

February 14, 2024

Want To Slash Your Risk For Divorce? Start Going To Church

…the challenges life and love bring. The “nomos” found in churches and other religious communities also makes for stronger unions. The sociologist Peter Berger described the collective endeavor that religion…

January 4, 2024

To Fix Their Housing Shortage in 2024, Cities and States Should Turn To Market

States and cities considering housing supply reforms in the new year to combat worsening affordability should unleash the free market rather than rely on the Department for Housing and Urban…

December 11, 2023

New York City Officials Blame Everyone but Themselves for Housing Unaffordability

By implementing onerous requirements on Airbnb hosts, New York City is attempting to scapegoat short-term rental (STR) sites for the city’s own failings. Rather than accounting for city policies that…

July 23, 2023

Lawlessness Is Spreading in Our Cities

…people in designer clothes, carrying $7 lattes, waltzing through emergency gates at Wall Street or on the Upper East Side.” . . . The complaint echoed that of Peter Rogoff, the chief…

May 23, 2023

Biden Courts Another Mortgage Crisis

The Biden administration is making moves that could imperil the safety of the housing finance system. Recent mortgage pricing changes, which have generally decreased fees for borrowers with lower credit…