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December 11, 2023
How Public Housing Encourages Single Parenthood and Penalizes Marriage
…the short-term spike in rents merely dramatizes that essential market failure. It asserts that the “rent burden among families with the lowest incomes is a long-standing issue. . .primarily due…
November 27, 2023
Bribing Homeowners To Build Tiny Houses Won’t Solve NYC’s Housing Problem
…affordability of its pre-zoning standard of two- and three-family homes. (Although Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is toying with bringing back the housing insanity called rent control, guaranteed to limit new…
October 20, 2023
Revenge of the Rust Belt: The Surprising Forces That Have Made the Midwest the Hottest Housing Market Around
…below historical averages nationwide. “Across the U.S., inventories stand at 3.1 months, meaning all homes on the market today will be on average sold by mid-January, just over three months…
October 13, 2023
Liberals Reap Consequences Of Their Homeless Policies
…long-standing policy known as “treat and street” — that is, treating the short-term needs of street homeless people — has begun to be replaced by the 120-day stays needed to…
September 18, 2023
There’s an Easy Fix That Would Solve Our Housing Crisis: Light Touch Density
…increases the supply of housing for middle-income households, when what we have now is the opposite—long-standing exclusionary zoning laws that limit most areas of the nation to single-family detached homes,…
July 30, 2023
26 Miles of Scaffolding Blights NYC’s Public Housing, Some Up for 10 Years
…feet, their time standing in years, not months. NYCHA, reported here for the first time, has 137,022 linear feet of sidewalk sheds — 26 miles — installed in 114 of its developments….
July 25, 2023
Not Just Tulsa
…of Greenwood, unfortunately, was not an unusual fate for historic black communities in the U.S. While the Greenwood massacre stands out for the horrific means and scale of its destruction,…
July 19, 2023
Adams’ Smart Migrant Move Could Help the City’s Overburdened Shelters—and Migrants Themselves
…Detroit—where an incredible one of every five homes stands vacant—are in desperate need of newcomers, to repair and revive the city. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg had it right in 2011 when…
July 18, 2023
The Great Recession, COVID-19, Interest Hikes Left a 15-Year Mark on Housing
…prices so high – during the last decade were interest rates that were very low by historical standards. As the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to fend off a recession…
July 12, 2023
New York Rent Control: Could the End be Near?
…that New York’s rent laws could be struck down, in full, or in part. Taking no action would let the lower court decisions upholding the law stand. Nor would a…