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February 27, 2025
How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market
…of Donald Trump voters is related to progressive housing policy’s collateral damage. Most of Stuck, however, is about how we got into this mess. Appelbaum’s skill as a historian shines here….
December 29, 2024
Why Rent Regulation Remains So Hard to Undo in NYC
…federal New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey reported a vacancy rate of just 1.4%, “a stark contrast to the 4.54 rate in 2021”. Over the same period, median monthly rent rose from…
November 17, 2024
Affordable Housing—and No Tax Hike
…abundance will also have a positive impact in addressing Denver’s burgeoning homeless rate. Housing Center research found, in a review of 54 variables, that the median-home-price-to-median-income ratio (displacement pressure) had…
October 15, 2024
Lefty NYC Council Add-Ons to Mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ Would Worse Housing Crisis
…housing has crumbled. Here’s something Speaker Adams and the entire City Council should ponder: Under Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei, that country’s largest city, Buenos Aires, precipitously “scrapped” its rent…
October 2, 2024
AOC’s “Social Housing” Dead End
…investment fall. One indicator of the popularity of AOC’s vision: at a time of sharply rising housing demand, median prices for Co-op City units last year fell 43 percent. Still, Ocasio-Cortez hopes…
September 24, 2024
Household Food Insecurity Rises Again – Inflation, especially for households ineligible for safety net programs, to blame
…economic conditions—such as the poverty rate, the unemployment rate, median income, and homeownership—to assess whether changes in these economic factors appeared to explain the rise in food insecurity rates. Overall,…
September 4, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Housing Plan Would Be Worse Than Doing Nothing
…buyers typically make a median down payment of around $10,500, or 3 percent of the home price. We estimate that even without the Harris proposal, 3 million of its recipients…
September 2, 2024
This Is How to Fix the Housing Crisis
…while overall inflation is dropping. The National Association of Realtors reports that the median sale price for an existing single-family home was $422,000 in the second quarter of 2024. One-half…
August 16, 2024
The Harris Campaign’s Foolish Down-Payment-Assistance Scheme
…report aptly titled “External Effects of Concentrated Mortgage Foreclosures,” found that “high-exposure neighborhoods tend to have a greater proportion of black and Hispanic residents, lower median incomes, lower median sales…
May 24, 2024
The First National Calculation of Mortality of the US Homeless Population
…2023. West Coast cities have witnessed an especially sharp and concentrated increase in unsheltered homelessness, leading some observers to liken the current situation to a public health and humanitarian crisis….