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March 10, 2026

Don’t Tax the Public Housing Poor Like They’re Rich

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed the most dramatic low-income housing policy change in…

February 13, 2026

What Harvard’s Raj Chetty Overlooks About Upward Mobility

The Harvard economist Raj Chetty, justly famous for his studies of the factors that enable upward mobility…

February 10, 2026

Trump Houses Are a Good Idea—If

Facing public concern about high home purchase prices, the Trump Administration is said to be…

January 22, 2026

Democrats Face Stark Choice on Housing Affordability

Affordability, especially lowering housing costs, enjoys bipartisan political support — at least in theory. But affordability is…

November 19, 2025

Real Estate Red Flag: How Hidden Blue-State Policies are Pricing Out Homeowners

A telling new analysis of rising home maintenance costs from the real estate listing service Zillow, in…

September 25, 2025

The Golden Age of Public Housing—and Why It Didn’t Last

If Americans have any shared image of public housing, it is one of dilapidated and…

September 24, 2025

Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility

In 1983, Harvard scholars Mary Jo Bane and David Ellwood sought to determine the length…

January 15, 2024

New York’s Voter Suppression

Some Americans never register to vote. Those of us who do usually register just once….