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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…
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…