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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…

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…

December 29, 2024

Why Rent Regulation Remains So Hard to Undo in NYC

…in 1997, the Harvard economists Edward Glaeser and Erzo Luttner described the “misallocation of housing” that rent controls creates. That was their term for a mismatch between what renters might…