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September 23, 2024
The Kamala Harris Plan for More Housing Shortages
A signature feature of Kamala Harris’s housing plan is providing first-time home buyers with $25,000 in down-payment support, at a total cost of $100 billion over four years. Absent a severe…
September 11, 2024
As America’s housing crisis intensifies, the American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2024 has emerged as a high-profile yet expensive solution.
…fate. To continue reading this op-ed online on The Hill, click here. Tobias Peter and Edward Pinto are co-directors of the American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Center. The views expressed in this article are…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…1947 through 1957, I use estimates from Simona E. Cociuba, Edward C. Prescott, and Alexander Ueberfeldt, “US Hours at Work,” Economics Letters 169, 87-90 (2018), data file updated October 2021,…
September 4, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Housing Plan Would Be Worse Than Doing Nothing
…cost and without unintended consequences. Edward Pinto is the senior fellow and codirector of the American Enterprise Institute Housing Center. Tobias Peter is the senior fellow and codirector of the…
September 2, 2024
This Is How to Fix the Housing Crisis
Vice President Kamala Harris correctly identified one of America’s biggest problems when she said that “there’s a serious housing shortage.” America’s affordable-housing crisis exacerbates wealth inequities, leads low-income parents to…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…Edward Millward. Millward is initially loath to teach Charles, given his conviction that Wales should be independent of the Crown, but eventually he relents. Millward offered a model of a…
May 6, 2024
Comments on the One Seattle Plan (Comp Plan)
Summary: 1) Seattle has been underbuilding for the last decade (and likely even longer) and it needs to build more housing than the targets set in the comp plan. 2)…
April 26, 2024
Human Capital Spillovers and Health: Does Living Around College Graduates Lengthen Life?
Abstract Equally educated people are healthier if they live in more educated places. Every 10 percent point increase in an area’s share of adults with a college degree is associated…
April 19, 2024
The New Deal’s Failed Kibbutz in the Desert
…as a public relations expert, one Edward Banfield, who would go on to write a deeply-researched, narrative sociology case study of Casa Grande’s failure. His book, “Government Project,” reissued by…
April 3, 2024
The Fearless Fund, DEI, and Attacks on Philanthropic Freedom
…Alliance for Equal Rights, the nonprofit run by conservative activist Edward Blum. That same group successfully challenged college affirmative action admissions policies before the Supreme Court last summer. Like that case, this…