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Closing Detroit’s Appraisal Gap: A Market-Based Strategy to Revive Vacant Neighborhoods—Lessons for Struggling Cities Across the Nation
Detroit has experienced population decline of nearly two-thirds since 1950 and continues to have a massive vacant residential lot problem. The AEI Housing Center estimates that Detroit has 134,000 vacant…
Op-Ed
Washington, Not Wall Street, Is the Real Housing Problem
…easier to build the homes working families need. Edward Pinto is a resident fellow and director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Center, where Tobias Peter is director of research. …
Report
Rent Control: A Proven Way to Make Housing Scarce and Expensive
Economists from across the political spectrum agree that even modest rent controls would not help middle-income Americans. This consensus reflects decades of research and examples across the U.S. and around the world….
Working Paper
The Philadelphia Story: The Impact of the 2000 Tax Abatement Program on Philadelphia’s Revival
Abstract This paper evaluates the effects of Philadelphia’s 2000 residential property tax abatement, which exempted improvement values on newly constructed or substantially renovated properties, on housing markets, neighborhood reinvestment, and…
Article
Has Marriage Fallen Because Young Adults Can’t Afford Homes?
…falling marriage is making it harder to afford major purchases, such as buying a home. Many people agree with venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who believes that the cultural resentments of…
Working Paper
A Critique of the Urban Institute’s Panel Study on Land Use Reforms to Impact Housing Supply: Evidence of Severe Methodological Gaps
Abstract: This paper critically evaluates the Urban Institute’s Land Use Reforms and Housing Costs (2024) study, which aims to link zoning reforms to housing supply using machine-learning analysis of newspaper…
Blog Post
Housing Affordability? Build, Baby, Build
…being offered only by the new “abundance” advocates of the center left. Tobias Peter of the AEI Housing Center and economists at Goldman Sachs have both recently argued that affordability…
Blog Post
Housing Affordability? Build, Baby, Build
…being offered only by the new “abundance” advocates of the center left. Tobias Peter of the AEI Housing Center and economists at Goldman Sachs have both recently argued that affordability…
Op-Ed
The New Era for Nonprofits: America’s Old System of Federally Funded Nonprofits is Gone. What Comes Next?
…co-option. Under the hybrid system, Peter L. Berger and Richard John Neuhaus observed, “the very vitality that originally distinguished the [nonprofit] institutions from government agencies is destroyed. Indeed they become government agencies…
Article
Is Marriage Back? Divorce Is Down, Family Stability Is Up
…marriages [ending] in divorce.” A 2009 survey of contemporary family life authored by family scholars Elizabeth Peters and Claire Kamp Dush held that “Family forms are becoming increasingly diverse.” And in 2010, a Pew Research Center…
Op-Ed
The Surprising Role of Large Developers in Solving the Housing Crunch
Against the odds—and conventional wisdom—the nation’s largest home builders have engineered a dramatic shift toward serving first-time homebuyers (FTBs). New data from the AEI Housing Center show that in 2024,…
Report
Displacement by Design: How Bad Policy Made Housing Scarce, and How We Can Fix It
Musical chairs is one of the first games we play as children. The rules are simple: there are fewer chairs than players. When the music stops, someone ends up standing….