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January 4, 2024
To Fix Their Housing Shortage in 2024, Cities and States Should Turn To Market
States and cities considering housing supply reforms in the new year to combat worsening affordability should unleash the free market rather than rely on the Department for Housing and Urban…
December 14, 2023
Harnessing Tailwinds on State and Local Land-Use Reform: A Bipartisan Playbook
…Edward J. Pinto | Newsweek | September 21, 2023 A Series of Policy Briefs on Zoning, Land Use, and a Solution to the Nation’s Housing Shortage Edward J. Pinto and Tobias Peter…
December 11, 2023
New York City Officials Blame Everyone but Themselves for Housing Unaffordability
By implementing onerous requirements on Airbnb hosts, New York City is attempting to scapegoat short-term rental (STR) sites for the city’s own failings. Rather than accounting for city policies that…
September 25, 2023
A Bad Bipartisan Housing Bill: Connecting the Dots on the Helper Act
As rising home prices continue to undermine the American Dream of homeownership for hard-working Americans, Congress is considering a bipartisan bill modeled after the successful VA home loan program, to…
September 21, 2023
National Home Price Appreciation (HPA) Index—August 2023
PDF to full report Key takeaways: National YoY HPA for August 2023 was 4.5%, up from 3.8% a month ago and down from 10.2% a year ago. Historically, HPA in…
September 12, 2023
Housing Finance Watch (Week 35 & 36, 2023)
PDF to full report Key takeaways: The median purchase rate rose 1/8 ppts. over the past week to 7 1/8%. Mortgage News Daily reported a daily avg. 30-year rate of…
September 8, 2023
Is Vote Dilution Necessarily Bad?
…advantage, rather than an electoral weakness. As recounted in Israel in the Mind of America, the 1983 book by one-time New York Times reporter Peter Grose, Silver’s American Zionist Emergency Council set about…
July 28, 2023
The Time Is Now for Workforce Innovation
…the University of Kentucky and Peter Mueser of the University of Missouri. Their WFI paper examines the performance of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), the law that funds…
July 23, 2023
Lawlessness Is Spreading in Our Cities
…people in designer clothes, carrying $7 lattes, waltzing through emergency gates at Wall Street or on the Upper East Side.” . . . The complaint echoed that of Peter Rogoff, the chief…
July 21, 2023
Government-Supported Job Training in the US: Paths Toward Reforming the Workforce
Funding for government-supported job training in the US has been declining since the 1970s, and the current Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act program needs administrative reform to cut red tape…