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Housing Supply Is Not Primarily a Financing Problem
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Know the Market to Find the Path Home for the Most Vulnerable
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Op-Ed
Why First-Time Buyer Age Isn’t Rising—Even as Housing Gets Less Affordable
Home prices have surged over the past two decades, and by most measures, affordability has worsened. Yet data from the New York Fed show that the median age of first-time…
Report
Senate Investor Ban to Cut Supply & Hurt Low-Income Families
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Op-Ed
Don’t Tax the Public Housing Poor Like They’re Rich
…Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke, the first black Republican since Reconstruction. In 1969, he responded to a crisis at one of the most notoriously dilapidated public housing projects, the 33 high-rises…
Report
Closing Detroit’s Appraisal Gap: A Market-Based Strategy to Revive Vacant Neighborhoods—Lessons for Struggling Cities Across the Nation
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Article
Capital Gains Rules on Home Sales and Senior Homeowner Lock In
Would ending the capital gains lock-in for senior homeowners free up larger homes for families? Summary: For senior homeowners, removing the cap entirely or retroactively inflation adjusting the current caps…
Report
Median First-Time Homebuyer Age at 34 Years in 2025, Little Changed from 2024
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Op-Ed
Washington, Not Wall Street, Is the Real Housing Problem
…through the GSEs and make it easier to build the homes working families need. Edward Pinto is a resident fellow and director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Center, where…
Working Paper
The Philadelphia Story: The Impact of the 2000 Tax Abatement Program on Philadelphia’s Revival
Abstract This paper evaluates the effects of Philadelphia’s 2000 residential property tax abatement, which exempted improvement values on newly constructed or substantially renovated properties, on housing markets, neighborhood reinvestment, and…
Op-Ed
American Housing Needs More Institutional Investors
This op-ed was first published by Real Clear Markets. You can read the full piece here. President Trump’s Executive Order to ban institutional investors from purchasing single family homes gets the equation backward. The…