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June 24, 2025
Public Housing and Rental Subsidies
…Robert Weaver, had an optimistic vision of “massive housing rehabilitation efforts . . . [to] achieve our goal of adequate housing for all families.”8 However, the optimism of reformers in…
March 28, 2025
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
…unlocked front doors. The buildings’ conditions are an insult to the legacy of their namesakes: Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat; and John Lovejoy Elliott, a Progressive-era reformer and founder…
February 27, 2025
How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market
…and Robert Ellickson, whose 2022 book, America’s Frozen Neighborhoods, criticizes single-family zoning. My own book, The Poor Side of Town—and Why We Need It, shares his defense of so-called slum housing and…
January 2, 2024
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
…Philip Johnson and Robert A.M. Stern. (Disney has sold off most of its holdings.) Not far from Seoul, the Songdo International Business District was developed by a consortium of real…
December 14, 2023
Harnessing Tailwinds on State and Local Land-Use Reform: A Bipartisan Playbook
…Robert Doar, President, American Enterprise Institute Will Marshall, President, Progressive Policy Institute 11:10 a.m. Panel I: How We Got into the Housing Policy Mess and Why We Need to Fix…
August 13, 2023
The Bill to Repair NYCHA Projects Doubles—but Pols Won’t Fix the System
…massive “slum clearance” program, overseen by—who else?—urban planner Robert Moses. What do you think? Post a comment. It put the wrecking ball to many neighborhoods whose condition was not nearly as…