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July 9, 2025
Housing Plan Falls Short
This op-ed was originally published in Your Observer. You can read the whole piece here. Recently, the Florida Housing Coalition, along with the Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Barancik Foundation, Patterson Foundation and…
June 30, 2025
America’s Six Million Home Shortage: Why California Is at the Epicenter
…analysis distributed the estimated six million missing homes across counties based on each area’s median price-to-income ratio—a proven proxy for housing affordability. By applying this method, the analysis produced a national shortage…
June 24, 2025
Public Housing and Rental Subsidies
…quite large. For example, the value of an NYCHA voucher for a two-bedroom apartment in 2025 was a hefty $3,027.23 Although anyone earning less than 80 percent of the median…
June 23, 2025
Boston’s Backward Housing Policy: More Demand Will Only Exacerbate the Supply Crisis
…homes annually, at a median price of around $735,000—roughly 30% below Boston’s new single-family home construction prices. Importantly, such a strategy would also promote filtering—the natural process by which newer,…
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…incentive for long-term investment in economically disadvantaged communities that were designated by governors as so-called opportunity zones, subject to federal standards based on the communities’ median income and official poverty…
May 27, 2025
The Surprising Role of Large Developers in Solving the Housing Crunch
…the typical new home they sold was priced 28% above the local area’s median sale price. By 2024, that premium had narrowed to just 6%—a clear indication of a purposeful…
May 7, 2025
Displacement by Design: How Bad Policy Made Housing Scarce, and How We Can Fix It
…in homelessness. The numbers tell the story: The median value of a single-family detached home built after 1999 in Los Angeles is around $1.5 million, well above the $875,000 median value of…
March 28, 2025
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
…a tourist magnet and neighborhood amenity, while the nearby Meatpacking District—once notorious for prostitution—now offers an array of high-end restaurants, including Japanese, Mexican, German, and Italian. Chelsea’s gentrification makes demolishing…
March 17, 2025
Trump Should Put an End to Rent Control
…incumbents want to maintain their advantages at the expense of the greater municipal good. To break this Gordian policy knot, HUD should adopt new regulations governing its major aid programs…
March 13, 2025
Housing Roadblocks: Paving a New Way to Address Affordability
…2024, the real price of housing doubled in Phoenix and rose by 55 percent in Atlanta. According to the National Associaon of Realtors, the median new home price in now…