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Op-Ed
Free-Market Forces Behind Fishtown’s Revival
This opinion letter was originally published in the The Wall Street Journal. You can read the full piece on their website here, and you can read more about the impact of the 10-year…
Report
Housing Supply Is Not Primarily a Financing Problem
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Article
Why First-Time Buyer Age Isn’t Rising—Even as Housing Gets Less Affordable
Home prices have surged over the past two decades, and by most measures, affordability has worsened. Yet data from the New York Fed show that the median age of first-time…
Report
Senate Investor Ban to Cut Supply & Hurt Low-Income Families
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Report
Closing Detroit’s Appraisal Gap: A Market-Based Strategy to Revive Vacant Neighborhoods—Lessons for Struggling Cities Across the Nation
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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. …
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…
Report
The Importance of Protecting Homeschooled Children from Abuse
…of 12-year-old Gavin Peterson of Utah, who died at the hands of his father, stepmother, and older brother in 2024. Peterson’s school raised repeated concerns about how he was searching through…
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…