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June 24, 2023
If the definition of insanity involves doing the same thing repeatedly and hoping for a different result, maybe the long-troubled New York City Housing Authority, the nation’s largest, isn’t entirely…
June 14, 2023
…The following text has been lightly edited for clarity. Howard Husock, senior fellow in Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and author of “The Poor Side of…
June 14, 2023
…38%. Howard Husock notes , “An Urban Institute report found no increase in evictions and a modest increase in the rate of positive move outs because of gains in income attributed to…
May 31, 2023
The New York City Council has added another misguided new progressive policy to those, like bail reform and safe drug-injection sites, that make life worse for the poor in the…
May 23, 2023
Thanks to the debt-ceiling showdown, Republicans appear to have a fighting chance to add a work requirement for those receiving SNAP (food stamp) and Medicaid benefits. They should also turn…
May 19, 2023
With the expiration of the Covid-era rule justifying the expulsion of illegal border-crossers on public health grounds, the Biden Administration, to the dismay of progressives, has gone Trumpish. Absent “Title…
May 12, 2023
Governor Hochul has floated the idea of banning all sales of tobacco products in New York State, even as she urges New Yorkers to purchase and partake of now-legal cannabis….
May 8, 2023
Some of us still subscribe to the view that we didn’t leave the Democratic Party; it left us. For such apostates and freethinkers, Fred Siegel was an inspiration and a role model…
May 1, 2023
Notably missing from the budget the Legislature is passing is a proposal Gov. Kathy Hochul had marked as a top priority: spurring cities and towns to build 800,000 new housing units….
January 3, 2022
…political economy. Fifth, we should emphasize goals-oriented reforms. As Philip Howard has written, the “post-1960s bureaucratic state is built on flawed assumptions about human accomplishment,” since there is no way to articulate…