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October 15, 2024
Lefty NYC Council Add-Ons to Mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ Would Worse Housing Crisis
…to Bill de Blasio’s 200,000 affordable units “created or preserved.” As it stands, New York City has more — far more — of its housing protected from market forces than any other…
October 2, 2024
AOC’s “Social Housing” Dead End
…is not to get government to replace the private housing market—which has enabled 65 percent of Americans to become homeowners—but for government to stand aside and let the private market work….
September 25, 2024
The Promise — and Danger — of Kamala Harris’s YIMBYism
…in standards, tastes, and preferences at the local level and that those who seek to build it must marshal good arguments to persuade local officials. That should mean opening the doors…
August 18, 2024
Why NYC’s Most Affordable Housing May Already Be Available
…New York already has. An antiquated law currently stands in the way of homeowners and renters taking in “unrelated persons” even if a home or apartment has empty bedrooms. Incredibly,…
July 24, 2024
Housing and the American Worker
As the American Worker Project analysis shows, real wages have increased over time. Real wages are nominal wages corrected for changes in the price level, and a natural approach to understanding the…
May 9, 2024
State Housing Bills Are Dead; Time for Local Leaders to Step Up
…ratios and other zoning standards. Housing reformers will inevitable run into opposition from those who will argue against any form of change and those who complain that reforms don’t contain…
March 14, 2024
A Crucial Fix For Rent Regulation
…leave apartments vacant.” Now that even a conservative Supreme Court has allowed rent regulation law to stand, Restler is quiet on the subject. It’s good to see, however, that some…
December 11, 2023
How Public Housing Encourages Single Parenthood and Penalizes Marriage
…the short-term spike in rents merely dramatizes that essential market failure. It asserts that the “rent burden among families with the lowest incomes is a long-standing issue. . .primarily due…
November 27, 2023
Bribing Homeowners To Build Tiny Houses Won’t Solve NYC’s Housing Problem
…affordability of its pre-zoning standard of two- and three-family homes. (Although Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is toying with bringing back the housing insanity called rent control, guaranteed to limit new…
October 20, 2023
Revenge of the Rust Belt: The Surprising Forces That Have Made the Midwest the Hottest Housing Market Around
…below historical averages nationwide. “Across the U.S., inventories stand at 3.1 months, meaning all homes on the market today will be on average sold by mid-January, just over three months…