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September 24, 2025

Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility

…Howard Husock is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Projects: A New History of Public Housing (NYU Press 2025). Bruce D. Meyer is professor of public…

September 8, 2025

A Hidden Explanation for the Wealth Gap on Racial Lines That Emerges in the Push to Promote Public Housing

…and long-term dependency.  The average time in public housing is 12 years; in voucher housing, 10.  New research I’ve done with the University of Chicago economist Bruce Meyer, based on…

May 24, 2024

The First National Calculation of Mortality of the US Homeless Population

…that provides the first national calculation of mortality for the US homeless population (Meyer et al. 2023). We calculate mortality by linking 139,000 adults recorded as sheltered and unsheltered homeless…

July 25, 2023

Not Just Tulsa

…were doing blacks a favor by including them in these programs. Many then viewed public housing as desirable quarters. As Edward Banfield and Martin Meyerson wrote in their landmark book…