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Op-Ed
American Housing Needs More Institutional Investors
This op-ed was first published by Real Clear Markets. You can read the full piece here. President Trump’s Executive Order to ban institutional investors from purchasing single family homes gets the equation backward. The…
Testimony
Congressional Testimony: Unlocking Capital to Save the American Dream
…Committee Hearing Title: “Housing Affordability: Saving the American Dream.” January 22, 2026 Edward Pinto, Senior fellow and Co-Director of the AEI Housing Center The views expressed herein are those of…
Article
President Trump and Institutional Investors in Single-Family Rentals
President Trump has expressed understandable concern with the state of the single-family housing market that he inherited a year ago. During the Biden administration, home prices went up by 34%…
Article
NAR Says the Typical First-Time Homebuyer Age Was 40 This Year, Up from 33 in 2021—but Is This Accurate?
It is a challenging time to become a first-time homebuyer (FTB).1 Recent age data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) appears to confirm that young FTBs are facing desperate…
Article
Three Years Later, Permanent Rate Buydowns Continue to Prop Up New Home Prices
When mortgage rates surged in early 2022, most sellers faced an uncomfortable reality: Affordability had collapsed and buyers were pulling back; existing home sales slowed significantly, and inventories of unsold…
Article
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 multiple bedrooms. Lyman Stone and Bobby Fijan’s survey of over 6,000 Americans confirms what housing analysts have…
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…
Article
Time to Build … New US Cities
…abandoned. Freedom on the frontier Second, how does this big, blank slate build-out actually happen? Two colleagues at the American Enterprise Institute, Arthur Gailes and Edward J. Pinto, recently proposed…
Article
Three Levers to Unlock 1.5 Million Homes a Year
Earlier this month, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AEI Housing Center released Strong Foundations: A Playbook for Housing and Economic Growth – the first resource of its kind providing a…
Report
Freedom Cities: Homesteading for the 21st Century
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Report
America’s Housing Supply Problem: The Closing of the Suburban Frontier?
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Blog Post
More Evidence of How Housing Regulation Is Bad for Housing
…The Closing of the Suburban Frontier?” by economists Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University) and Joseph Gyourko (University of Pennsylvania). Here’s the abstract: Housing prices across much of America have hit…