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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…
Blog Post
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…
Report
National Home Price Appreciation (HPA) Index—August 2023
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Blog Post
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…
Blog Post
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…
Op-Ed
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…
Report
Government-Supported Job Training in the US: Paths Toward Reforming the Workforce
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Blog Post
Yet More Absurdities in Biden’s Housing Policy
In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, my colleague Ed Pinto and I recently raised alarms about how the Biden administration is doubling down on the same failed policies that preceded…
Commentary
The Debt Ceiling Deal Refocuses TANF on Employment and Self-Sufficiency
…safety net programs offer no serious data tracking or evidence that beneficiaries are achieving self-sufficiency. As Peter Schuck, a Yale law professor, summarized in 2014, “less than 1 percent of…
Blog Post
Local News and Social Capital
Joseph Schumpeter famously observed that capitalism unleashed “creative destruction.”[i] If that is so for American journalism, just such a wave has, without doubt, been destroying local newspapers. What’s not yet clear…