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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…
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…
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…
Article
The 9 Million Family-Friendly Apartments Hiding in Plain Sight
The Institute for Family Studies has delivered exceptional research demonstrating that Americans overwhelmingly prefer family-friendly housing with multiple bedrooms. Lyman Stone and Bobby Fijan’s survey of over 6,000 Americans confirms what housing analysts have…
Op-Ed
Trump Stopped Biden’s Plan to Force DEI on Local Communities
…the workforce they need for local businesses and governments. Modest changes in zoning — what Edward Pinto and Tobias Peters call “light-touch density” — can go a long way…
Op-Ed
How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market
…their properties. In making these arguments, Appelbaum aligns himself with such right-of-center thinkers as Edward L. Glaeser, who has written in these pages about how “incumbents” use zoning to protect the value…
Op-Ed
Why Rent Regulation Remains So Hard to Undo in NYC
…in 1997, the Harvard economists Edward Glaeser and Erzo Luttner described the “misallocation of housing” that rent controls creates. That was their term for a mismatch between what renters might…
Op-Ed
Affordable Housing—and No Tax Hike
On Nov. 5, Denver’s voters rejected Affordable Denver, a half-cent sales tax increase for subsidized housing. The tax hike would have burdened working families while failing to address the root…
Op-Ed
HUD’s Housing Misfire: When Bureaucrats Know Better than Markets
Kamala Harris’s proposal for a $40 billion fund for local governments to explore “innovative” housing solutions will likely funnel money into projects burdened by self-defeating government-mandated affordability requirements, which HUD…
Op-Ed
Harris’s Housing Plan and the Five C’s That Will Derail It
…LIHTC unit costs taxpayers an estimated $450,000, compared to $0 for a private development that it displaces, making it an expensive solution for affordable housing. Complexity: As Chris Edwards highlights,…
Op-Ed
Harris Housing Subsidies: A Recipe for Repeating Past Mistakes
Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has proposed housing policies that recycle ineffective strategies long seen in federal housing programs. Her key proposals include subsidies for the construction of 3 million new…
Op-Ed
The Promise — and Danger — of Kamala Harris’s YIMBYism
…for new, “missing middle” starter homes. It would mean not pushing for “low-income” housing that conjures public housing high-rises but, rather, what Edward Pinto and Tobias Peters, my colleagues at…