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November 17, 2024
Affordable Housing—and No Tax Hike
On Nov. 5, Denver’s voters rejected Affordable Denver, a half-cent sales tax increase for subsidized housing. The tax hike would have burdened working families while failing to address the root…
October 11, 2024
HUD’s Housing Misfire: When Bureaucrats Know Better than Markets
Kamala Harris’s proposal for a $40 billion fund for local governments to explore “innovative” housing solutions will likely funnel money into projects burdened by self-defeating government-mandated affordability requirements, which HUD…
October 10, 2024
Harris’s Housing Plan and the Five C’s That Will Derail It
…LIHTC unit costs taxpayers an estimated $450,000, compared to $0 for a private development that it displaces, making it an expensive solution for affordable housing. Complexity: As Chris Edwards highlights,…
October 8, 2024
Harris Housing Subsidies: A Recipe for Repeating Past Mistakes
Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has proposed housing policies that recycle ineffective strategies long seen in federal housing programs. Her key proposals include subsidies for the construction of 3 million new…
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 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…
March 8, 2024
State of the Union – Biden’s Housing Proposals Would be Harmful, Not Helpful
President Biden in his State of the Union pitched a raft of proposals with the stated purpose of lowering costs for homebuyers and increasing the supply of rental units. As has been…
September 18, 2023
There’s an Easy Fix That Would Solve Our Housing Crisis: Light Touch Density
We’re living through one of the greatest housing crunches the U.S. has ever known. It’s resulted in record numbers of homelessness and entire generations certain they will never become homeowners,…
May 23, 2023
Biden Courts Another Mortgage Crisis
The Biden administration is making moves that could imperil the safety of the housing finance system. Recent mortgage pricing changes, which have generally decreased fees for borrowers with lower credit…