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Comment on Proposed Rule Establishing Flexibility for Implementation of Work Requirements and Term Limits in Federal Housing Assistance Programs
…in the highest cost areas. Rental assistance is even more inequitable once accounting for the typical length of receipt. In recent research, Howard Husock and Bruce Meyer use administrative data…
Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…2021, https://www.aei.org/opportunity-social-mobility/turning-back-the-clock-on-welfare-reform/. [40] Howard Husock and Bruce D. Meyer, “Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility,” National Affairs, Fall 2025, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/subsidized-housing-and-upward-mobility. [41] Gilbert Crouse et al., Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors: 24th Report to Congress, US Department of…
Op-Ed
AI Changes NOTHING About What Students Need to Learn
…makes traditional education models obsolete – and what to do about it,” urges educators to ditch “specialized knowledge” and “embrace the ‘how to think’ model.” Harvard’s Howard Gardner predicts that, by 2050, children…
Op-Ed
How Misreading Somali Poverty Led Minnesota into Its Largest Welfare Scandal
The billion-dollar pandemic-era social service billing fraud perpetuated mainly by Somali immigrants in Minneapolis is shocking in its scale. That Minnesota public officials would have turned a blind eye to…
Op-Ed
Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility
…Howard Husock is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Projects: A New History of Public Housing (NYU Press 2025). Bruce D. Meyer is professor of public…
Op-Ed
How Single Room Occupancies Could Be the Answer to NYC’s Housing Crisis
It was another local tragedy attracting passing notice before being overtaken for our attention by the latest stray bullet homicides and subway assaults. But those concerned with “affordable housing” have…
Op-Ed
Not Local Enough: The Montgomery County Public Schools Case
The Supreme Court heard arguments this week in Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which parents from Montgomery County, Maryland, challenged the public school system for the right to opt their young children out from exposure to…
Op-Ed
Tom Cotton Should Go Further: An Endowment Tax Should Not Exclude Big Foundations
Pressure in Congress is rapidly growing to respond to the Left-leaning tilt of universities by increasing the excise tax on their endowments. There’s no doubt that for legislators concerned about both…
Op-Ed
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
The imposing brick blocks covering much of the territory from West 16th to 27th Streets, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, superficially have much in common with…
Op-Ed
Trump Should Put an End to Rent Control
We are in a time when what would have seemed to be unimaginable domestic policy changes — from the abolition of the Department of Education to cutoffs of federal support for universities — are on the table. The Department…
Op-Ed
It’s Time for Time Limits on Public Housing
Like other Cabinet agencies, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is moving quickly to undo long-standing progressive policies. New HUD Secretary Scott Turner has asserted that the agency is now “DEI-free.” Perhaps even more…
Op-Ed
Trump Stopped Biden’s Plan to Force DEI on Local Communities
The pullback from diversity, equity and inclusion programs — in government agencies and business — has focused on their impact at the individual level — on hiring, or college admission….