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March 24, 2025
Tax Abatements: The Best-Kept Secret to Revitalizing Struggling Communities—Without Spending Taxpayer Money
…rules, faster permitting, and cost-effective building standards A meaningful property tax abatement that closes the feasibility gap Increased zoning capacity and flexibility to allow greater density across more areas When…
March 3, 2025
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…
February 27, 2025
How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market
…of The Atlantic, does not directly criticize the assumptions behind such long-standing public policy in his new book, Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Back the Engine of American Opportunity….
January 21, 2025
Calling DOGE: HUD’s Costly Hunt for Answers the Market Already Has
…root causes of the problem. This stands in direct opposition to the principles championed by DOGE (the Division of Oversight for Government Efficiency), which emphasize deregulation and market-driven solutions. Ultimately,…
January 17, 2025
Regulations Keep Millions of Bedrooms Empty During a Housing Crisis
…of five single adults or multiple unmarried couples in order to share costs are not permitted to do so—no matter how many bedrooms are available. These relics stand in the…
December 29, 2024
Why Rent Regulation Remains So Hard to Undo in NYC
…“vacancy control” stands in the way of the rent increases owners need to invest simply to comply with building codes and lead abatement laws — rather than leaving units vacant….
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,…