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November 5, 2024
Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser on the U.S. Housing Crisis
…work highlights the relationship between housing supply, urban growth, and economic prosperity, offering insights for policymakers to create more sustainable and equitable urban environments through improved housing strategies. Glaeser also…
August 26, 2024
Vouching for Self-Sufficiency
…According to Elizabeth Grossman, general counsel for FHJC, “There is no valid or even rational reason for landlords and brokers to discriminate against those with housing vouchers.” That’s just not…
March 15, 2024
Housing Abundance with Light-Touch Density
Executive Summary: The following presentation on “Communication with Policymakers and Media – For the Win!” was presented at YIMBYtown 2024, covering how Light-touch Density is the key to achieving housing…
March 14, 2024
A Crucial Fix For Rent Regulation
…too blunt an instrument to reach these households.” But if rent stabilization is here to stay, lawmakers need at least to make sure that property owners can stay in business….
January 17, 2024
Congress, Don’t Legislate a Takeover of the Nation’s Rental Housing Market
…problem. To be fair, the housing shortage that policymakers are looking to solve is real. However, doubling down with more government subsidies for new apartments isn’t the answer. The root…
December 21, 2023
Our Policies to Address Homelessness Are Failing
…record for a single-year increase. Our homeless population is now the largest it has ever been. Policy-makers must wake up to this national crisis. Our current approach is broken, and…
July 25, 2023
Not Just Tulsa
…L. Franklin preached—and his daughter Aretha sang—at the New Bethel Baptist Church before it was torn down. Owner-occupancy of small two- and three-family homes was common. Public housing by its…
July 18, 2023
Yet More Absurdities in Biden’s Housing Policy
…the housing crash of 2008. Unfortunately, policymakers keep dreaming up new and equally absurd housing policies. The latest move comes from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), the government’s lender for low-income Americans,…