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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
…SFD properties. This makes LTD a compelling, market-driven approach to expanding housing supply without triggering the common concern of declining home values. While our analysis is limited to Charlotte and…
June 25, 2025
De-Skilling the Knowledge Economy
…every other OECD economy except Mexico to “active labor market programs,” which provide retraining, income replacement, and other supports for workers faced with technological and market transitions.24 During the shift…
June 24, 2025
Public Housing and Rental Subsidies
…housing markets could not provide the poor with adequate housing, even though markets had been steadily improving housing standards for families at all income levels for many decades. Unfortunately, rental…
June 24, 2025
Putting the CBO’s Estimates of SNAP’s Work Requirement into Context
…this requirement when local labor market conditions are unfavorable. The House-passed reconciliation bill makes three key changes to these work requirements: (1) it increases the age that defines an able-bodied…
June 23, 2025
Boston’s Backward Housing Policy: More Demand Will Only Exacerbate the Supply Crisis
…or new subsidies will change that. Since 2012, home price appreciation in the Boston metro has soared by 147 percent overall—and an astonishing 178 percent at the low end of the market—while wages have…
June 20, 2025
Senate Embraces “Do No Harm” for Higher Education
…$27,000. The Senate proposal’s main shortcoming is its failure to account for debt burdens. Many degree programs deliver earnings slightly above the benchmark but impose outrageous student debt burdens. For…
June 16, 2025
Accountable for Outcomes: We Need Evidence-Based Funding Models
Key Points With over 1.1 million credentials available but only 12 percent delivering significant wage gains, learners face a chaotic marketplace that lacks effective oversight. Top-decile credentials yield annual wage…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
This Father’s Day, an estimated 72 million greeting cards will zip through the mail, according to Hallmark. Father’s Day ranks a respectable fourth on the list of the highest “card-buying” holidays of the year….
June 12, 2025
The Senate’s Higher Education Reforms Are Strong (But Could Be Stronger)
…incomplete. The accountability system incorporates no measure of prices or student debt burdens—if graduates’ median earnings are one dollar above the benchmark, colleges face no accountability, even if debt burdens…
June 10, 2025
America’s Housing Supply Problem: The Closing of the Suburban Frontier?
…it did from 1980-2000, there would be 15 million more housing units. This paper analyzes the decline of America’s new housing supply, focusing on large sunbelt markets such as Atlanta,…