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February 18, 2026

Washington, Not Wall Street, Is the Real Housing Problem

This op-ed was first published by Real Clear Markets. You can read the full piece here. President…

August 11, 2025

Texas Just Provided a Housing Lifeline—Dallas-Fort Worth Cities Should Grab It

This op-ed was originally published by The Cannon. You can read the original piece here. Large Texas…

July 17, 2025

Why HUD Was Right to Roll Back PAVE Rules

This op-ed originally appeared in National Mortgage News. The recent decision by the Department of Housing and Urban…

May 27, 2025

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…

January 21, 2025

Calling DOGE: HUD’s Costly Hunt for Answers the Market Already Has

The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) new grant opportunity of $250,000–$500,000 for research on “Increasing…

October 11, 2024

HUD’s Housing Misfire: When Bureaucrats Know Better than Markets

Kamala Harris’s proposal for a $40 billion fund for local governments to explore “innovative” housing…

October 10, 2024

Harris’s Housing Plan and the Five C’s That Will Derail It

Kamala Harris’s latest campaign ad pledges to “end America’s housing shortage by building 3 million new homes…

October 8, 2024

Harris Housing Subsidies: A Recipe for Repeating Past Mistakes

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has proposed housing policies that recycle ineffective strategies long seen in…

September 11, 2024

As America’s housing crisis intensifies, the American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2024 has emerged as a high-profile yet expensive solution.  

The bill comes with a $500 billion price tag and endorsements from leading Democrats, including Vice President Kamala…

September 4, 2024

Kamala Harris’s Housing Plan Would Be Worse Than Doing Nothing

Originally appeared in Newsweek On August 16, presidential candidate Kamala Harris unveiled a series of housing proposals…

June 12, 2024

Our Homeless Problem is Getting Out Of Control — What Can We Do?

The ongoing debate over fining individuals for sleeping in public spaces is currently being deliberated…

May 9, 2024

State Housing Bills Are Dead; Time for Local Leaders to Step Up

While two statewide bills in Minnesota that would allow for missing middle housing everywhere and…