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July 9, 2025

Housing Plan Falls Short

This op-ed was originally published in Your Observer. You can read the whole piece here. Recently, the Florida Housing Coalition, along with the Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Barancik Foundation, Patterson Foundation and…

July 3, 2025

A Republican Bailout for Blue Cities? The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Trap Explained

The Republican Party’s much-touted “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” includes a $14 billion bailout for some of America’s worst-run cities, all thanks to the proposed expansion of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit…

June 30, 2025

America’s Six Million Home Shortage: Why California Is at the Epicenter

A growing body of research estimates that the US faces a severe housing shortage, with missing homes numbering between 3.8 million and 8.2 million. Using the midpoint—approximately six million missing homes—new AEI Housing…

June 26, 2025

Does Building Light-Touch Density Housing Lower Single-Family Home Values? Evidence from Seattle, WA and Charlotte, NC

Summary: Opponents of Light-touch Density (LTD) infill argue that it will lead to outright home price declines or, at the very least, slower home price appreciation (HPA). However, evidence from…

June 24, 2025

Why Do Republicans Support the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit?

…driven by a 59-page IRS statute, which raises questions about the extent to which the increased tax credits will actually finance new housing. As Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute…

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…