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March 10, 2026

Don’t Tax the Public Housing Poor Like They’re Rich

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed the most dramatic low-income housing policy change in…

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…

February 13, 2026

What Harvard’s Raj Chetty Overlooks About Upward Mobility

The Harvard economist Raj Chetty, justly famous for his studies of the factors that enable upward mobility…

January 27, 2026

American Housing Needs More Institutional Investors

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

January 22, 2026

Democrats Face Stark Choice on Housing Affordability

Affordability, especially lowering housing costs, enjoys bipartisan political support — at least in theory. But affordability is…

December 9, 2025

Has Marriage Fallen Because Young Adults Can’t Afford Homes?

If you’ve been on social media in the past ten years, you’ve surely seen it:…

November 19, 2025

Real Estate Red Flag: How Hidden Blue-State Policies are Pricing Out Homeowners

A telling new analysis of rising home maintenance costs from the real estate listing service Zillow, in…

November 6, 2025

The 9 Million Family-Friendly Apartments Hiding in Plain Sight

The Institute for Family Studies has delivered exceptional research demonstrating that Americans overwhelmingly prefer family-friendly housing with…

September 25, 2025

The Golden Age of Public Housing—and Why It Didn’t Last

If Americans have any shared image of public housing, it is one of dilapidated and…

September 24, 2025

Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility

In 1983, Harvard scholars Mary Jo Bane and David Ellwood sought to determine the length…

September 8, 2025

A Hidden Explanation for the Wealth Gap on Racial Lines That Emerges in the Push to Promote Public Housing

We hear a great deal about what’s called the black-white wealth gap.  It’s not an…

August 11, 2025

Privileged Zohran Mamdani’s Sweet Rent Deal Exposes the Brutal Truth About NYC’s Housing Crisis

Andrew Cuomo’s revelation that his mayoral rival Zohran Mamdani lives in a $2,300-a-month rent-stabilized apartment in Queens…