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June 7, 2023
The Effect of Relaxing Local Housing Market Regulations on Federal Rental Assistance Programs
…Angeles (all 11 metropolitan areas) produced new housing units at the same rate as the 90th percentile metropolitan area for a decade, market rents would fall by 18.1 percent (2.0…
June 7, 2023
The Price We’ll Pay for Our AI Future: More Loneliness
…CarynAI isn’t the first attempt at providing people with companionship through an AI chatbot. Replika, another AI-chatbot friend marketed to people who are “lonely, depressed, or have few social connections”…
June 7, 2023
Don’t Give Away the Farm Bill
…the Thrifty Food plan to demonstrate the cost of a healthy diet, helping families find nutritious food on a budget. It serves as the benchmark for food stamps, also called…
June 7, 2023
How ‘Negativity Bias’ Skews the Conversation About Artificial Intelligence
…might not be as helpful in the security and abundance of the modern world. Understanding negativity bias doesn’t require expertise in evolutionary psychology. Adam Smith, the father of market economics,…
June 7, 2023
The Price We’ll Pay For Our AI Future: More Loneliness
…CarynAI isn’t the first attempt at providing people with companionship through an AI chatbot. Replika, another AI-chatbot friend marketed to people who are “lonely, depressed, or have few social connections”…
May 31, 2023
Sending the Wrong Signals
…that would provide city funds to pay rent on apartments of their own. Removal of this requirement shows a fundamental naivete: in a housing market constrained by regulations on rent…
May 26, 2023
The Power of the Success Sequence
…face of disadvantages—are much more likely to forge a path to a better life. In fact, young adults from disadvantaged circumstances who follow the sequence are markedly more likely to…
May 23, 2023
The White House Defender of Welfare Work Requirements
…followed by marked increases in work and earnings and sharp declines in poverty and benefit dependence. Writing about the impact of welfare reform in 2008, liberal poverty expert Robert Moffitt wrote: “The findings on employment and…
May 23, 2023
Public Housing Should Have Work Rules, Too
…vouchers to enter the labor market has positive effects, including upward mobility. “Public and other assisted housing” is not a minor program. Housing vouchers are the largest item in the…
May 23, 2023
Biden Courts Another Mortgage Crisis
…breaking into the housing market can get a shot. This approach has backfired. The last great credit expansion, done with the goal of expanding homeownership in the runup to the…