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June 10, 2025

America’s Housing Supply Problem: The Closing of the Suburban Frontier?

Housing prices across much of America have hit historic highs, while less housing is being built. If the U.S. housing stock had expanded at the same rate from 2000-2020 as…

June 5, 2025

More Evidence of How Housing Regulation Is Bad for Housing

…The Closing of the Suburban Frontier?” by economists Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University) and Joseph Gyourko (University of Pennsylvania).   Here’s the abstract: Housing prices across much of America have hit…

April 19, 2025

Workplace Segregation between College and Non-College Workers

Abstract We measure the level and growth of education segregation in American workplaces from 2000 to 2020. American workplaces show an educational segregation, measured by the degree to which the…

March 20, 2025

Homesteading 2.0: A Proposal to Make Housing Affordable Again

…2024 Edward J. Pinto et al. | American Enterprise Institute | January 7, 2025 Commentary: Homesteading 2.0 Edward J. Pinto and Arthur Gailes | Las Vegas Review-Journal | December 14, 2024 Perspective:…

March 18, 2025

Low-Rise Multifamily and Housing Supply: A Case Study of Seattle

Abstract We provide an in-depth case study of land use reforms in Seattle to highlight how redevelopment of aging single-family housing to townhomes can lead to a significant increase in…

March 13, 2025

Housing Roadblocks: Paving a New Way to Address Affordability

Thank you, Chairman Scott and ranking member Warren. Thank you, committee members. I am grateful and honored to have the opportunity to speak to you today. I am an economist…

February 28, 2025

Trump Stopped Biden’s Plan to Force DEI on Local Communities

…the workforce they need for local businesses and governments.   Modest changes in zoning — what Edward Pinto and Tobias Peters call “light-touch density” — can go a long way…

February 27, 2025

How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market

…their properties. In making these arguments, Appelbaum aligns himself with such right-of-center thinkers as Edward L. Glaeser, who has written in these pages about how “incumbents” use zoning to protect the value…

February 18, 2025

Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress

Key Points American birth rates have hit record lows, but Americans still say they want children. Family formation seems unattainable to many parents. There is no single federal policy that…

February 6, 2025

The 10th Annual American Family Survey: Opportunities and Obstacles to a Broad-Based Political Coalition for Families

…Life, American Enterprise Institute 1:05 p.m. Introductory Remarks: Paul S. Edwards, Director, Wheatley Institute, Brigham Young University 1:10 p.m. Survey Results Presentation Presenter: Chris Karpowitz, Codirector, Center for the Study…